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The new 1.8 household creation code is useful for new contacts.  The following would make households much more useful for people with lots of individuals already created without reference to households.

On the Find Contacts display, we can select individuals who belong in a household, and select Add Contacts to Household from the action list.  Currently if the household does not already exist, you can't do much here.

My request would be that you give us a check box that says 'Create new household from contacts' at this point.  Show a list of the selected contacts and radio buttons beside each.  The user would select one individual from the list, and CiviCrm would take the last name as the family name and street address, home phone, and maybe other details from that contact to create the household.  The selected individual would become the head of household and the others would become members of the household.

This would speed things up a lot.  Thanks for listening.

I'll give it a shot.