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Question Batch add children

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1 year 7 months ago #1 by eyolf
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Here’s a common scenario:

I come across a list of family members, from a book, a website, a relative, a census, etc. I need to add them all.

Currently, they have to be added one by one, going through the whole click/tab/typing process, adding the source for each individual, forgetting to do so with brother Richard, so having to go back to correct that, etc. It can be a quite time-consuming task for a late-19th c. family with twelve children.

Ideally, I would have liked to make a csv-snippet with name, birth, death, and sex fields, paste it into a ‘Bulk add children’ box on the family page, where it would also be possible to add a source through the usual mechanism.

Would something like that be feasible? Perhaps as a plugin?

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1 year 7 months ago #2 by Franz Frese
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Use a gedcom to merge
And some other to convert from csv to gedcom.

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1 year 7 months ago #3 by hermann
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You can edit the information using Excel, where copy/paste and check for errors is easy. Then use for example GedTool and convert the spreadsheet to GEDCOM. Import thisGEDCOM file to webtrees and merge it into your tree.

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