# How to add an email (.eml) as note to a person **URL:** \ **Category:** Help\ **Created:** [May 6, 2022, 2:12pm UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/how-to-add-an-email-eml-as-note-to-a-person/2424 "2022-05-06T14:12:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 4
**Author:** ![ennoborg](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/gramps.discourse.group/ennoborg/32/4659_2.png) [@ennoborg](https://gramps.discourse.group/u/ennoborg)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2022, 3:48pm UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/how-to-add-an-email-eml-as-note-to-a-person/2424/4 "2022-05-06T15:48:43Z")
Says the man that started this … > [@Authors are People too](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/authors-are-people-too/1613): > > This seem to wander outside the scope for purist genealogists but… I’d like to see the Author field of Sources expand to recognize a Person (or even a Family, a group of Persons) object. I regularly add authors of my reference materials to my Gramps tree. My standard author entry is: main author/editor with contributors separated by semicolons; where each author is listed last name comma, given name(s) birth year dash death year. And this generally means finding a death year. (But I also fin… You were right then, and still are, although you seem to be a little bit behind on Thunderbird itself, because its current database is SQLite. Anyway, it’s an old wish from me too, to read the address book, to import mails and convert them to sources/citations, based on the idea that every email has an author, and a title, that can go the source, and every individual email has a timestamp, and could be assigned a sequence number, both of which go very well with the existing fields in the citation, which can then hold the email text in a note. The only drawback here is, that when I can have a choice, I’d rather use the author as a source, to group all conversations with him or her, but for that I’d need a title field in the citation object, or abuse the vol/page for that. And the latter part goes very much against my autistic mind. --- _[View the full topic](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/how-to-add-an-email-eml-as-note-to-a-person/2424)._