Ira, interesting article. Timely, too, as I've been working on a project to create an index of people listed in multiple data sources, locating the same people in each database by means of matching on various fields.

I'm currently using a similar approach, but using a Levenshtien distance algoritm instead of Jaro-Winkler. Would Jaro-Winkler be more efficient?

Thanks,

Ed Z