How do I manage Financial Households?

This does not in anyway show me what householding in lists does or can do. I need to create a list of donors with addresses, which can include contact record or financial household. 

If you add the members of the Financial Household using the steps in this help document, you can export the results and, using the Standard Text Export Format, you can include both Home Address and the Financial Household Address as fields. 

To clarify- I need to make a “List” that has people who gave for an event, and I want it to include only contacts with addresses we can mail to- either financial households address or contacts with home address, but if the address is only appearing in their financial household it doesn’t show up when I filter for the address variables. I then would take this “List” to run a contribution acknowledgment report- to then mail merge the letters and labels all within EA -which creates documents for me to print. Yes, I could get the fields separately and mail merge separately. But then why wouldn’t it be possible as I describe it since it seems logical people would mail to households... I am also saying these steps are like using the word to define itself, examples of what these householding steps in lists does would be more beneficial, not just relisting what the householding drop down choices are. 

Thank you for the clarification. The Contribution Acknowledgement Report uses the Financial Household Street Address as the default address for the Acknowledgement Address. If that doesn’t exist on the contact record, then it will default to the contact’s Preferred Street Address. So, as long as there is an address on the record, you will have an address for the mail merge

We’re still using Every Action. I could add Relationships but where do we edit Financial Households now?

​@rocy You can find Financial Households in the contact record. It’s on the left hand side and will let you add or remove members from there. 

Thank you Peter! I had a different view that’s why I was not seeing it, but my co-worker showed me where it’s at and now I remember! All good. Thank you!

OK- did ya’ll know this ridiculous fact- if you delete an address from a contact (or archive it) and run a list for export for a mail merge you get that address in the address field even if deleted? Like what? I need to export a list with address field because it can export the proper greetings as well, so no I can’t use the address report. 

​@chelsea Sorry for the delay here. I’ve had the opportunity to look at this and I haven’t been able to replicate this behavior. I’ve create a new record and deleted the address associated with that record and then performed a mail merge export and the address isn’t being displayed. Could you send in a support ticket with a few example EveryAction VAN IDs and also the name of the Mail Merge template that you’re using? Thanks.