Karen mentioned that you need to be careful to not combine persons in nFS who are born with wide birth dates in nFS but with similar names. I totally agree with that but the opposite of that can also be true. I duplicated my husband's maternal grandmother's ordinance work before nFS was available because it had been done and all the birth dates for the children were about 30 years off. So even though I had searched to be sure I would not be duplicating, I did not give a wide enough range of years and so the work was redone. I found the duplication in nFS because of the family relationships and knew that it was her but the dates were so incorrect that without the family relationships, it was almost impossible to find previously. All of this points to the fact that we should enter as much data as possible about the person so that they can be uniquely identified. Things that this would include, in my opinion, are: alternate names and "about dates" if you do not know the exact date. A member of my ward did work for a family member with very minimum information on the card. Thre was no date of birth and the place name was not standard. I was with her and glanced over the card. When I asked her about it in a nice way. She said that that was all that was known. When I got home, I looked in Ancestry.com and FamilySearch.org and came up with census records that would give about dates and emailed the documents to her. The next day at church when I talked to her about my finds for her, she said that she already had that information. I encouraged her to contribute any data that she did have so that the person would be uniquely identified including an about date. Writing this makes me think that it would be good to make some sort of handout on a person being uniquely identified to remind members how important this can be to reduce duplication. Nancy Scott

Any of you on this list that know if this above mentioned center still is in operation and how I get in touch with the owner? (Finn A. Thomsen) I have continuously over the last few moths sought for an e-mail address or other means of contacting him, but do not know if he still has the shop. I need some info about some of the books he has published earlier. Thanks Str. Helle Hirschmann Slagelse ward Denmark Copenhagen stake