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Helen Smith

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Helen Report 21 May 2003 19:06

This idea seems good at first but, say you had entered your persons birth year from Census and someone else entered an actual birth year which was one year out.......no match. Likewise you enter the town as birth place and someone enters the district within the town.....no match. But if you are checking matches yourself you can spot the 'might be' ones as well as the exact matches. Lots of possible matches could be missed if we relied on a search facility doing the job for us.