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This is an example of what the person add/edit form looks like. Here we are editing the information for Larry Henderson.
Note that the SSN field is NOT required - the only pieces of information that are required as first/last name, birthdate and gender. With these
pieces of data, we generate what we call a personID which is the first two letters of the lastname (HE), the first two letters of the first name (LA), the
birth month, (05), birth day (15) and the gender (M). Having a personID like this allows people to pull a person up by ID with very few bits of information
and it also flags duplicates in the system. If two records generate the same key, but are not duplicate records, the system will append a digit to the end
of the ID. The biggest reason for the personID is to keep from relying on an SSN number which is sensitive information that many people prefer not to give out.
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