Personalize an email via Send Mail Script

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I've got a project where I get a lot of hand written memberships. During after the data entry I would like to click a button and have an email created with the members first name and their other info automatically put into this email. I've tried a couple of things and looked through several books I have and nothing seems to help. I'm hoping this is possible because the next step after data entry is to enter their email address into an email server so they can receive our posts. I'm trying to create an easy way to double check their scribbled info to help cutdown on bounced back emails.

I tried something like <database name::field name> to have the email start with the members first name but it didn't work I just got the info I typed, not the first name.

Thanks in advance,

Ken