Add membership from group? How to?

[hfrederick]

I'm transferring an existing organisation database of members.  They are all now in Contacts just fine divided into groups like Officers and Members.

What I'm looking for is a way to add membership to group--all with same parameters.

Anyone point me to a way to do this?  Thanks, Howard in Melbourne, australia

[petednz]

I would consider exporting the internal/contact id to a csv

adding columns for all the necessary 'membership' fields like
- type
- start date
- etc

then use the Import Memberships (under Memberships in menu) to add that info as a Membership record to your Contact record.

Am I making sense?