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→Find Possible Duplicate People...
This tool searches the entire database, looking for the entries that may represent the same person.
You can access this tool via '''Tool->Database Processing...->Find Possible Duplicate People...'''.
Two options are available:
*Match Threshold: choose between High, Medium and Low from the drop down menu.
*Options: a check box to enable or disable the use of soundex codes.
Only three buttons are present: {{man button|Help}} brings you to this page, a {{man button|Cancel}} to stop processing and an {{man button|OK}} button to start processing the data.
If you hit the {{man button|OK}} button, the data will be processes in two passes.
Pass 1: building preliminary lists
Pass 2: calculating potential matches. A progress bar will be shown and depending the speed of the cpu and the amount of people in the database this can take some time.
Fanally a {{man label|Potential Merges}} window is presented. This window shows a list with three columns:
*Rating: this gives you an idea of the resemblance between the two people. The higher the ranking, the higher the change to find a duplicate person.
*First Person
*Second Person
If you select a row you can check the details with the {{man button|Compare}} button or you can double-click on the selected row.
Three buttons are present: {{man button|Help}} brings you to this page, a {{man button|Close}} to close the window and a {{man button|Compare}} button to which brings up a {{man label|Compare People}} window. Here you can select with the radio buttons one of the persons and eventually use the {{man button|Merge and close}} button to merge the data if you find the two persons are duplicates.
Hitting the {{man button|Cancel}} button brings you back to the list.
=== Fix Capitalization of Family Names... ===