Weekly update - February 23, 2022

Here is our weekly update for February 23, 2022. 

Granddaughters of Veterans

• Sample B granddaughters.

    We have completed 900 of 1826 soldiers or 49.3%

    Including 5,351 of 11,264 granddaughters or 47.5%

Wives

• There are a few small problems for Heather to fix, but Coralee will probably be ready to send the wives sample to Dora tomorrow (2/24). 

• QUESTION: Some of the wives in the sample are grandchildren of the vet who married first cousins. Our rule has always been to mark relationships on the grid in the direct line to the vet, so they are all marked as grandchildren (or children of children of the vet) not as spouses. Should we somehow indicate in the data that these are grandchildren as well as spouses of other grandchildren?

Dora's answer: useful to be able to identify that a spouse is a veteran descendant so, yes, please do indicate that.

Weekly update - February 2, 2022

Here is our weekly update for February 2, 2022.

Granddaughters of Veterans

·         Sample B granddaughters.

o   We have completed 588 of 1826 soldiers or 32.2%

o   Including 3,612 of 11,264 granddaughters or 32.1%

o   Progress will slow because only Noelle and Heather are working on it.

Grandchildren

·         Coralee is finalizing the Grandchildren data to release.

Wives

·         Coralee is compiling the new (corrected) data with the targeted wives for Dora. Since we finished correcting the GEDCOMs, Coralee is extracting that data and will download VCC data today.

Grandchildren Links to 1940

·         Coralee did some calculations regarding merging the two different 1940 full census sources, and looked closely at the occupation coding in the full-count file that she was using to retrieve the occupation codes.

o   She thinks it would take months longer to complete the merging process and have all of their codes. There are a lot of inconsistencies in their coding that she can't account for, and a lot of differences between their coding and our coding.

o   It will be faster and consistent with the rest of our data for us to code the occupations ourselves.

Sample Descriptions

·         We have been working on a Google sheet with descriptions of all our samples.

·         We’ve included the following information:

o   Project (sample name)

o   Dates

o   Number in sample/description

o   What was collected

o   Which data collection screens used

o   Where data is available

o   Who worked on it

o   Is there a codebook for the sample

·         Dora let us know if you would like us to share it with you.