Paul,
  Soundex is definitely worth your time.  It may be valuable to build and
maintain either a detail or a KSAM of some kind which has soundex for each part
of the name, so that a single lookup will find a soundex match as first or last
or middle.

Ted
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Ted Ashton ([log in to unmask]), Info Sys, Southern Adventist University
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