On Mon, 22 Dec 2003 17:55:38 -0000, you wrote: >Christopher Richards wrote > >"I noticed two entries that appeared to be the same and wondered why they >hadn't been matched. Further information shows that one transcriber had >transcribed the district as "Manchester XX" and the other as "Manchester >20". >Clearly transcriber 2 had not typed what he saw. Should these two entries be >matched?" > >This is just the kind of example I have been asking about. IF the the ONLY difference between two entries is a variation in the way the SAME district is shown then will this cause there to be duplicate entries on the database? And the answer is the same as Barrie gave yesterday... No it won't. Where we have cases like this, we need to know which records are apparently not matching properly, so we can check them and work out exactly what the problem *IS*. Guesswork based upon assumptions about how the process might (but doesn't) work don't move it forward one bit. -- Dave Mayall