Steven Zahm@ Chris
Unfortunately I think I’m a little short in being able to meet your needs…
The CSV Import does not create families on import.
There hasn’t been really much demand/requests so I haven’t spent the time to further that feature among tat various extensions.
With that many in your parish, it would take an incredible amount of time to do manually.
The only work around that I can think of is to import a single entry for each family in your parish as an individual using only the last name field for the family name. For example, “Smith, John and Jane”. It avoids having to enter every individual and then having to create the relationships. It would also then work with Link.
I’m not sure what you mean by efficient uploading of media … do you mean importing with the CSV file? Currently it does not do that either. It on my todo list. It will like be just another field that is the relative URL to the image or may just the image name to files that already have been uploaded via FTP.
The best documentation to the CSV Import is in the plugin itself. There are FAQs and the video walk-thru available on the site.
Don’t know if that helps at all, but I hope it does.