Matching Records from two separate lists

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Emma Aumack

I have two seperate membership lists. One list is a Customer list that has
an Account number as the unique identifier. The other list has a Member ID as
the unique identifier. I need to find the best way to match these two lists.
I was thinking of matching on the first, say, 10 characters of the address,
then city and state. I would creating a query with a concatentated field for
this information for each table, and seeing how many pop up as matched. But
I really need to come up with an algorithm to get around stuff like E. vs.
East, and P.O. vs. PO. Has anyone had any luck with doing this?
 
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