January and February checks

I'll send out the February checking partners next week. I'm still waiting for about 6 January checks. Please make sure you copy me when you send the checks to your partner.

Missing or incomplete Mil Info

Some of you have noticed that previously input data have been given quality code 1, but there is nothing in the Mil Info to support this. If you find this, please email me the RecId, so I can investigate. It usually means there is Mil Info that exists somewhere but is missing from the screens.

In one case, the soldier was a VA pension and the Mil Info was on paper. In another case, for some reason the Mil Info just didn't upload correctly. We should be able to fix these problems.

Please don't delete the data. Let me know about the problem, and I will try to get it fixed for you.

Family trees

If you have many family trees in your account, you might have some problems with the functionality of the trees. These problems occur when you're working with trees on page five or later of your list of trees.

The problems include:

• Auto complete will not work in the search screen
• You will not be able to save something to your tree from the preview screen

To fix these problems you may:

• Delete some of your trees (after you've downloaded them and made sure I have them)
• Rename your trees by adding "_" to the front of the file name. This will bring them to the top of the list.

Weekly updates

If you work outside the office, please update me on your work progress every week by noon eastern on Wednesday. What I really need to know is which soldiers you've worked on that don't have children.

You may update me in the following ways:

• Email me and tell me how many soldiers you've completed and which ones had no evidence of children.
• Email me your current input log.
• Share your current input log with me using Google docs.
• Update some other way that you get approved by me.

This will help me give accurate information to our PI. It will also help me evaluate our progress toward our overall goal of completing the work within the grant period. Please let me know if you have questions.

Don't forget to log out

When you're finished using the VCC screens for the day (and you're not planning on leaving your work open on your computer overnight), please log out. DO NOT just close your browser window. You must log out of the screens BEFORE closing your browser window. Failure to do this might cause problems and has caused problems in the past. Please log out of the VCC screens when you're finished using them.

Checking reminders

Just a few reminders about checking

• Write whether it is a FULL or QUICK check at the top of your check sheet
• Write how much time you spent checking the soldier at the top of the check sheet
• Each soldier should have his own check sheet, even if there isn't much to type
• Please try to keep quick checks to 60 minutes or less

Reminder about the soldier's spouse

Just a reminder:

If the spouse DID NOT have any children with the soldier, then DO NOT search for her outside of household 0.

We are trying to save time, so please don't do unnecessary searching.