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Wonderful, that did the trick, It must have been the date format. I had worked out how to get an empty project The file is a true csv - even if you save Excel files as csv some import routines are sniffy about them. So I routinely take them through notepad and resave. I had tried both ANSI and utf-8...

Thanks

Understood
That is what I have been doing - but nothing gets imported, so no records to change record identifiers on.
Do you happen to have a dummy csv that is know to import I can run?

Julius

Mike Thank you for replying so quickly. That does not seem to work ( no doubt I am doing something dim). I go to Tools - Record Identifiers - and the had tried the options to generate new record ids, or to copy existing record ids (I have tried each of options). If I have an empy project it says no ...

similar problem. I hhave been sent an excel epreadsheet with c 5000 names - so it would be good not to have to key them in! I have tried to use the "Build Tree from csv" plug in. I am trying to import into and empty database The csv looks like ... ID,Forenames,Surname,Sex,BirthDate,BirthPlace,DeathD...