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    1. Re: Matching Entries
    2. Dick Bond
    3. 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? If duplicates arise from this reason alone then something should be done to modify the database creation such that this does not create garbage entries. Transcribers WILL make mistakes even when shouted at to TWYS Dick Bond

    12/22/2003 10:55:38