Help please - synchronizing contacts on all devices.

Let's start with this question, where is my master contact list, in other words, which device am I working from?
I would like to sync to my MacBook Pro, Air, 4s and iPad.  Currently the contacts on all devices vary or so it seems.  I recently lost contacts all together from my 4s, yet they are still on my notebooks and my iPad.
Can someone please walk me, step-by-step, through this process? 
Obviously, when additional contacts are added, I would hope that they would stream to all devices.
Thanks

Thanks for the response and sorry for the delay in responding - travel!I will be trying your suggestion (probably solution) but if Imay I'd like to ask a bit more.
I have not thoroughly examined her Outlook files on her business computer but will be doing that. She says she has a "business" pst and a "personal" pst file. Can both pst files from one computer be sync'd as long as the path to each is shown?
Thanks again and Happy New Year

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