For each person, I know their name, birth year, birth state (or birth country), gender, and race.
Name: First name and surname
Birth year: may be off by exactly 1 year.
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My goal ?
Within +/- 1 birth year, some of these 8 million entries should be unique.
For those that are unique in the list, I want to see if I can "find" them in the 1940 census (the website I took you to earlier) and pick up some of the information under their name if they are also unique in the census
Highest Grade Completed: High School, 3rd year Weeks Worked in 1939: 0 Income: 0
Inferred Residence in 1935: San Diego, San Diego, California
Marital Status: Single
Resident on farm in 1935: No
Some information I'd like to collect
@nandhp yes
that was a real pain, but i have some code for that
my question is whether it is possible to take the parameters that I have and somehow add that additional information . . .
for example, if I had David Abbott in my list (which chnaces are that I do), and suppose is the only white guy named David Abbott born in California between 1922 and 1924, I'd like to collect the extra information
son Paul Abbott M 13 California daughter Beatrice Abbott F 10 California son David Abbott M 7 California
suppose I have Paul Abbott in my data
and suppose Paul Abbott matches uniquely
In sum, I'd want to know that this David Abbott and this Paul Abbott in my list are brothrers. And, they lived in: event place: Ontario, San Bernardino, California
I did not mean to cut you off
That one might be a little more complicated.
We can make a list of potential brothers who share things like last name, race, (birth state or country ?)
Maybe. I'm not sure what to suggest for this, since I don't have a very good idea what you're planning to do with the data. If all you need is a list of sibling relationships, that's relatively easy, you can just append them to a file when you encounter one.
But at some point you're going to have people, and where they went to school. And then you have who their brothers are, and I assume you want to associate that with the other data you have about them. You might need something more complicated than a list of siblings -- like a database.
Well, once you have saved all the 1940 records, then you can walk through them matching up brothers. Since you have the data from the websites, you may not have to guess (although if you have anything like 8 million names at that point, you may want to use guesses to limit your search space).
If keeping a list of brothers is sufficient, it's probably not too difficult. But if you need something more complicated, the programming will probably get more challenging.