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[Larry]

I have loads of addresses as all my business connection addresses have followed through more than a decade, and in my address book there are even contact address of people that I know / knew who have died - a while ago I deleted all the ones who had died, but after a few days or so they all came back - what the hell?

Now I just get along with them...........

Any ideas?

[Xairbusdriver]

Do you have any iDevices? Which iOS version? Are they 'synced' to your desktop Macs?
Are you using iCloud backups of your Macs/iDevices? Have you set them to do the backups automatically?

Kindly update your TS Profile to include your OS X, also. That way, we don't have to ask:
What OS X are you using?