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.

Weekly update - January 12, 2022

Here is our weekly update for January 12, 2022. 

Wives of Sons and Grandsons

·         We’ve completed data collection for the restricted sample of wives.

 

Granddaughters of Veterans

·         We are working on Sample B granddaughters.

o   We have completed 196 of 1826 soldiers or 10.7%

o   Including 1,226 of 11,264 granddaughters or 10.9%

 

·         As a reminder, we are collecting the following for all granddaughters in Grands Sample B:

o   Name and gender input on the obit screen

o   Birth information attached to the tree

o   Death information attached to the tree

o   1930 census attached to the tree

o   1940 census attached to the tree

o   Limited fields for 1940 input on the obit screen (if not already collected in the VCC) for the granddaughter as well as for her spouse if they are found together in 1940

§  Marital status

§  Grade completed

§  Occupation and industry

§  Income

§  Other income (y/n)

§  Head of household (x)

§  Owns or rents (if granddaughter or her spouse is the head of household)

§  Value of home (if granddaughter or her spouse is the head of household)

Weekly update - December 15, 2021

Here is our weekly update for December 15, 2021. 

Wives of Sons and Grandsons

·         We’ve collected 10,778 wives of 9,924 sons and grandsons

·         Only one person is still working on wives. We are deciding whether another person can help her finish.

 

# Sons of veteran	3352
# Grandsons of veteran	6572
# Wives of sons and grandsons	10778
# Veterans complete	1932
Total # veterans	1959
% sample complete	98.6

 

·         Limited 1940 census variables for Sample B grandsons

o   Those of us who have finished our work on the wives sample are adding 1940 variables to the death screen for grandsons

o   We have completed 1026 soldiers or 56.2% of Sample B

·         It will not take us much longer to finish the limited 1940 variables. What should we do next? Add death screens for Sample B granddaughters?

 

MVCC Update

Now that finals are over, Giles is waiting to be set up as an NBER consultant before resuming work on the MVCC screen fixes, changes and report functions.

Grandchildren progress report - December 16

 Here is our progress on the Grandchildren sample as of yesterday, December 16, 2020.

We're finished! Great work everyone!

Grandchildren Sample B	POW	Non-POW	Total
Total RecIds Completed Sample B	976	850	1826
RecIds Completed in the Last Week	28	9	37
% Sample Completed	--	--	100
RecIds Completed Sample A			999
Percent of TOTAL Sample (A & B) Complete			100
Total Grandchildren Sample B (including new)	--	--	23023
New Grandchildren Added	1159	1156	2315
Total Grandchildren Completed Sample B	11049	11973	23023
Birth Dates Added	11004	11926	22434
Death Dates Added	9982	10883	20412
Living Grandchildren	78	61	139

Sample B = 1827 (on duplicate soldier)   Total Sample (A & B) = 2825

Grandchildren progress report - December 9

Here is our progress on the Grandchildren sample as of yesterday, December 9, 2020.

Grandchildren Sample B	POW	Non-POW	Total
Total RecIds Completed Sample B	948	841	1789
RecIds Completed in the Last Week	88	17	105
% Sample Completed	--	--	97.9
RecIds Completed Sample A			999
Percent of TOTAL Sample (A & B) Complete			98.7
Total Grandchildren Sample B (including new)	--	--	22939
New Grandchildren Added	1069	1128	2197
Total Grandchildren Completed Sample B	10646	11886	22532
Birth Dates Added	10597	11837	22434
Death Dates Added	9605	10807	20412
Living Grandchildren	76	61	137

Sample B = 1827               Total Sample (A & B) = 2826

Do you think we can finish this week?