Weekly update - March 30, 2022

Here is our weekly update for March 30, 2022.  

Granddaughters of Veterans

·         Sample B granddaughters.

o   We have completed 1,444 of 1826 soldiers or 79.1%

o   Including 8,666 of 11,273 granddaughters or 76.9%

Weekly update - March 9, 2022

Here is our weekly update for March 9, 2022. 

Granddaughters of Veterans

·         Sample B granddaughters.

o   We have completed 1,141 of 1826 soldiers or 62.5%

o   Including 6,607 of 11,264 granddaughters or 58.7%

 

Nothing else to report. We continue to make rapid progress on the granddaughters.

Weekly update - March 2, 2022

Here is our weekly update for March 2, 2022.

Granddaughters of Veterans

·         Sample B granddaughters.

o   We have completed 977 of 1826 soldiers or 53.5%

o   Including 5,814 of 11,264 granddaughters or 51.6%

Grandchildren

·         Coralee is preparing the grandchildren data for public release. We still need to finalize the code book and double check the data.

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 1, 2021

Here is our weekly update for December 1, 2021. 

Wives of Sons and Grandsons

·         We’ve collected 10,495 wives of 9,650 sons and grandsons

 

# Sons of veteran	3267
# Grandsons of veteran	6383
# Wives of sons and grandsons	10495
# Veterans complete	1889
Total # veterans	1962
% sample complete	96.3

 

Update on Full-count Merging

·         Coralee has been working on the 1940 full count census merging and has discovered more problems than initially anticipated in merging with our data.  Here are the problems she has found:

 

o   The variables that the IPUMS people suggested merging on aren't in 1940 after all, not in the IPUMS file or in the GEDCOMs. Coralee has some alternate ideas for merging, but it will take longer to figure out.

 

o   The mechanical matching of the names (finding the most similar name on the page) is going to be very problematic for women with maiden/married names. Coralee thinks she has a way around this problem, but, again, it will just will take longer.

 

o   The biggest issue is that when she looks closely at one person in all three places (our sample, the full-count, and the census manuscript), the variables that we are interested in are null values in the full-count file, but present on the census manuscript. This is a sample size of one, she says, so maybe this problem isn't as widespread after all. She is looking at it closer today.

 

·         Coralee is also still working on getting occupation codes from 1930. With the amount of time it will take her to do 1940, she was wondering if maybe it would be better for the inputters to go back to the manuscripts for 1940 values and input them in the 1940 screen (or the 1940 section on the obit screen) while she finishes the 1930 work.  However, we realize we are limited in time before people’s contracts run out.

Weekly update - November 17, 2021

Here is our weekly update for November 17, 2021. 

Wives of Sons and Grandsons

·         We’ve collected 9,921 wives of 9,118 sons and grandsons

 

# Sons of veteran	3086
# Grandsons of veteran	6032
# Wives of sons and grandsons	9921
# Veterans complete	1779
Total # veterans	1962
% sample complete	90.7

 

·         We should be finished with the wives collection in a few weeks.

 

MVCC Update

·         Due to whiplash from a car accident the end of the semester approaching, Giles says that reports development for the MVCC screens has slowed significantly.

 

Grands Progress

·         Coralee continues working on the full count census merging process.

 

·         She is finalizing the grands dataset, making sure the codebook is current and data is ready.

 

·         She has the codebook up ready for us to review and edit.  We are trying to determine the best method for accomplishing this so that several of us can provide input.

 

·         Sandy completed the location coding, so Coralee will now incorporate those codes into the dictionary and then update the grands dataset with the new codes.

 

End of Project

·         Alterra has requested that Noelle send her a list of equipment that people have at home along with as much detail as possible, including acquisition dates.  Someone, maybe Annalisa, should be able to find this information on the server, probably in the last (2019?) tax inventory. 

 

Future Possibilities

·         Are any UCLA grad students working with the data that might have some ideas for future grants?

Weekly update - October 20, 2021

Here is our weekly update for October 20, 2021.

Wives of Sons and Grandsons

·         We’ve collected 8,243 wives of 7,566 sons and grandsons.

# Sons of veteran	2565
# Grandsons of veteran	5001
# Wives of sons and grandsons	8243
# Veterans complete	1455
Total # veterans	1962
% sample complete	74.2

 

 

 

Grands Progress

·         Coralee continues to work on the codebook and will assign out more location coding. She is also beginning to make some progress linking 1940.   

MVCC Update

 

·         Giles is working on the report functions for the MVCC screens.

 

Weekly update - October 13, 2021

Here is our weekly update for October 13, 2021.

Wives of Sons and Grandsons

·         Everyone is back to working on the wives again after work was completed on the Urban set of 50 veterans. 

·         We’ve collected 7,743 wives of 7,102 sons and grandsons

 

# Sons of veteran	2408
# Grandsons of veteran	4694
# Wives of sons and grandsons	7743
# Veterans complete	1359
Total # veterans	1962
% sample complete	69.2

 

Grands Progress

·         Coralee is working on the codebook and melding Samples A and B while awaiting word from Matt Nelson to see if he can help with 1940 and the full count merging.

MVCC Update

 

·         After completing an abbreviated version of the mil info to help while we were working on Urban, Giles is now focusing on creating a report function for the MVCC screens.

Weekly update - October 6, 2021

Here is our weekly update for October 6, 2021.

Wives of sons and grandsons

• We’ve collected 7,199 wives of 6,586 sons and grandsons

 

# Sons of veteran	2242
# Grandsons of veteran	4344
# Wives of sons and grandsons	7199
# Veterans complete	1269
Total # veterans	1962
% sample complete	64.7

 

 

Urban

·         We have finished 40 of the 50 Urban veterans so far and have found 80 sons and 46 grandsons.  We will put all the numbers together when we are finished by the end of the week and will include how many have death dates, how many lived to 45 and time per grandson.