GenoPro Support Forum

I recently started volunteering with a federation of 8 associations.  The members of the associations are the original immigrants and their descendants from a bunch of islands.

They are fairly "old-school", have no database of members, and often resort to hand-writing the addresses for hundreds of envelopes.

I could easily take the existing mailing lists, put them into Excel, and use a Word wizard to generate mailing lists, customized letters, etc.  The problem with Excel is keeping track of marriages, children, grandchildren, deaths, etc.

My idea is the following (I'd like some feedback to see if this is easily workable before I go to any further effort.)

• Put all the members and their descendants into Genopro, along with their contact info
• Organize the people into "Households" so that mailings can be properly addressed/targetted
• Include their names in both English and their original language (that way members can be addressed by their English and non-English names)
• Use the custom fields to track other data (name days, survey questions, etc)

Is there a way to automate the creation of a mailing list by household?  Can I export it to Excel easily?

Is there a way to send out mass e-mails easily without having to re-enter all the email addresses into another application?

Thanks in advance.

Edited: Thursday, June 19, 2008 by GenoProSupport