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>Hi Thomas . Thnaks for your reply
>
>All we have is names .. no additional details, se need a way of 'Approximating'
>e.g. John Henry == Jon Henry = John Henri
>I mean all these 'Sound' the same phonetically so If I use Levensthein , does that automatically do stuff like this
>other examples come to mind
> Mr.= Mister
>Dr. = Doctor
>etc
>
>Initially I am looking for some tool whcih will say cut the 2.5 million down somewhat
>
I know that my son has written some code based on some algorithm he found online to do this kind of matching and give you a probability of a match. Let me see whether I can get a link to the original from him.
Tamar
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