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1. The Calendar menu lets you choose a calendar other than the default Gregorian The Quality menu gives you the choices of Regular Estimated or Calculated The Type menu allows you establish the exact date type Regular Before After About Range Span and Text only You can set the Date by setting the day the month and the year In the event that your date type is Range or Span the Second date will be activated Finally the Text comment text entry field allows storing an arbitrary text string along with the date Note If you have an important comment to make about a date you are better off doing so in a Note that corresponds to the event than in the Text comment field of the Date selection dialog We recommend this for the following reason If you enter a date by typing it directly into the date field that is not via the Date selector dialog your entry will be copied and stored as the text comment string when GRAMPS parses the entered text Thus any comment that may have been there prior to the parsing will be overwritten 39 3 7 3 Editing Informa tion About Relationships 3 7 3 Editing Information About Relationships Information about relationships is entered and edited through the Family Editor dialog This dialog may be invoked in a number of ways e From Relationships View click on an Edit button in the family that you want to edit e From Family List View select the family in the list and then click the E
2. Confirmation Completed Boise idaho tel X Cancel 3 7 2 Editing Dates This section describes how to enter and modify dates Since dates are so important in genealogical research GRAMPS takes special care to preserve and use any date information available Information can be entered into a date field by directly typing it or by invoking the Date selection dialog Both methods will be discussed below but first we will cover some important features of dates as they are used in GRAMPS 3 7 2 1 Date types Dates in GRAMPS are classified according to the following types Regular A regular date is one which includes a specific day date or month It can be complete e g June 6 1990 or partial e g July 1977 Before A before date is one that can only be identified as occurring before a certain day month or year After An after date is one that occurs after a certain day month or year Range A range describes a time period during which the event occurred For example between January 1932 and March 1932 Span A span describes a time period during which a condition existed For example from May 12 2000 to February 2 2002 37 3 7 2 Editing Dates 3 7 2 2 Date formats and parsing rules GRAMPS recognizes dates entered in a variety of formats The default numeric format is that which is conventional for the environment is which GRAMPS is operating that is DD MM Y Y Y Y fo
3. It does not anymore Just try out the current version 2 2 0 82 My database is really big Is there a way around loading all the data into memory I want to rerun the Startup dialog How do I do this Why are non latin characters dis played as garbage in PDF PS re ports Why can I not add remove edit columns to the lists in People View and Family View I would like to contribute to GRAMPS by writing my favorite report How do I do that I found a bug and I want it fixed right now What do I do Starting with this release GRAMPS no longer loads all data into memory which allows it to work with a much larger database than before GRAMPS keeps a flag in the GNOME configuration database to indicate that the startup dialog has been run To cause GRAMPS to rerun this the flag needs to be reset This can be done with the following command gconftool 2 u apps gramps behavior startup This is a limitation of the builtin fonts of PS and PDF formats To print non latin text use the Print in the format selection menu of the report dialog This will use the gnome print backend which supports PS and PDF creation as well as direct printing If you only have latin text the PDF option will produce a smalled PDF com pared to that created by gnome print simply because no font information will be embedded Now you can Just try out the current version 2 2 0 The easiest way to contribute to reports filters
4. New Open Home ScratchPad Reports Tools Add Edit Remove People Name 1D Gender Birth Date Filter a Relationships Garner Jason R chard 11047 male 1072071978 Name Garner Jennie S 1625 female 9 11 1880 amp Family List Garner Jesse V 1623 male 6 18 1876 42 Pedigree Garner John Joseph 1186 male 8 15 1961 Gender any s Events Garner John Roger 1136 male 10 29 192 Or rn Garner Joseph 1104 male 1792 Garner Kathryn Mary 1180 female 9 10 1952 Death date EE gq Places Gamer Lewis 11105 male 11 16 1823 Has Event amp Media Garner Lewis Anderson 144 male 6 21 1855 Note gt Fepositories Garner Louella Marie 1183 female AAN Garner Margaret Ann 11039 female 7 18 1951 Garner Marguarite 1653 female End Y clear Garner Marie 1642 female Garner Mark Gerard 1185 male 10 16 1964 Garner Mary J 11114 female 10 12 1851 Garner Mary M 11115 female 10 12 1851 Garner Maude 1651 fernale gi I 1 144 Gamer Lewis Anderson When GRAMPS opens a database no filtering is in effect In People View for example all people in the database are listed by default 2 1 3 Relationships View The Relationships View displays all the relationships of the Active Person the selected person Specifically it shows his or her parents siblings spouses and children The Relationships View is designed to allow for quick navigation You can quickly change the Active Person simply
5. Gallery The Gallery tab lets you view and store photos videos and other media objects that are associated with the person The central part of the window lists all such media objects Any object in the form of a valid image file will result in the display of a thumbnail view of the image For other objects such as audio files movie files etc a corresponding file type icon is displayed instead Q Tip The first available image in the gallery will be also displayed in the Image area in the General tab The buttons Select Edit and let you add a new image to the database link to an image already stored in the database modify an image and remove a given media object from the person s gallery Note that the Edit and buttons become available only when a media object is selected from the list Figure 3 14 Edit Person dialog Gallery Preferred name Earniby Gamer Prefix Given Lewis Anderson Call Name Title Suffix Type Birth Name General Gender male ID 144 Marker bt Events Names gt Sources Attributes Addresses Note Gallery 2 Internet Associations LDS F la PN 654px Aksel_Andersson 1897_expeditionsmannschaft_rio_a 10123 e Help X Cancel Note Removing a media object from a person s gallery does not remove it from the database It only removes the reference to that object from this person s record Internet The Internet tab disp
6. Only one file can be opened in a single invocation of GRAMPS If you need to get data from multiple sources use the importing options by using i flag With or without the O flag there could be multiple imports exports and actions specified further on the command line by using i o and a flags The order of i 0 or a options with respect to each does not matter The actual execution order always is all imports if any gt all exports if any gt all actions if any Note But opening must always be first If no O or i option is given GRAMPS will launch its main window and start the usual interactive session with the empty database since there is no data to process anyway If no o or a options are given GRAMPS will launch its main window and start the usual interactive session with the database resulted from opening and all imports if any This database resides in the import_db grab file under the gramps import directory Any errors encountered during import export or action will be either dumped to stdout if these are exceptions handled by GRAMPS or or to stderr if these are not handled Use usual shell redirections of stdout and stderr to save messages and errors in files D 3 Examples To import four databases whose formats can be determined from their names and then check the re sulting database for errors one may type To explicitly specify the formats in the above example app
7. To find more information about GRAMPS please visit the GRAMPS Project Web page http gramps project org To report a bug or make a suggestion regarding this application or this manual use the help menu in GRAMPS or follow the directions on this site http gramps sourceforce net contact html This program is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public license as published by the Free Software Foundation either version 2 of the License or at your option any later version A copy of this license can be found at this link ghelp gpl or in the file COPYING included with the source code of this program 101 102
8. Attributes Addresses 4 Note amp Gallery Internet Associations Lo Type Value J Nickname Big Louie Social Security Number 123 456 7890 Descnption 10 fingers 10 toes 17 Help X Cancel Jar The Addresses tab lets you view and record the various addresses of the person The bottom part of the window lists all addresses stored in the database The top part shows the details of the currently selected address in the list if any The buttons Edit and allow you to correspondingly add modify and remove an address record from the database Note that the Edit and buttons become available only when an address is selected from the list Some reports allow you to restrict data on living people In particular that option will omit their addresses 31 3 7 1 Editing Infor mation About People Notes Figure 3 11 Edit Person dialog Addresses Preferred name Family Gamer image Given Lewis Anderson General Gender male s ID 144 Figure 3 12 Edit Person dialog Notes Preferred name Family Gamer Given Lewis Anderson Title Suffix General Call Name SC Image mie Marker t a Events Names gt Sources Attributes Addresses Z Note Gallery 2 Internet Associations E LDS Flowed Formatted We have committed to synergistically disser
9. Clear D Gender Birth Date Death Date 1 3 Obtaining Help GRAMPS has a Help menu that you can consult at any time It includes the following items User manual FAQ Tip of the day Plugin status GRAMPS home page GRAMPS mailing lists Report a bug About An electronic version of the manual that you can access while you work in GRAMPS A list of Frequently Asked Questions about GRAMPS Displays the Tip of the day dialog Use this item to display the status of any plugins you may have added This item opens your web browser and connects to the GRAMPS project web site This item opens your web browser to the GRAMPS mailing list page At this page you can browse the mailing list archives or join the mailing list Choose this item to file a bug report in our bug tracking system Remember GRAMPS is a living project We want to know about any problems you encounter so we can work to solve them for everyone s benefit This item displays a dialog with general information about the GRAMPS version you are running Chapter 2 Main Window When you open a database either existing or new the following window is displayed Figure 2 1 GRAMPS Main Window file Edit View Go Bookmarks Beports Jools Help B gt e D B New Open Back Forward Home ScratchPad Reports Tools Add Edit Remove People Name contains gt y End Clear Relationships a P Name Oo Gender Birth Date Death Date
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11. Q p If a tab label is in boldface type this means it contains data If not it has no data The tabs provide the following information categories of the event data General The General tab lets you view and edit basic information about the event its Type Date Place Cause and Description You can type this information directly into the adjacent fields The type can be selected from available types listed in the Event type drop down menu The rest of the information can be typed in the appropriate text entry fields Checking the Private record box marks the event record as private and allows it to be omitted from reports Sources The Sources tab lets you view and edit sources relevant to an event The central part of the window lists all such source references stored in the database The buttons Edit and let you add modify and remove a source reference associated with a place Note that the Edit and buttons become available only when a source reference is selected from the list 49 3 7 8 Editing Source References Note The Note tab provides a place to record notes or comments about the event To add a note or modify existing notes simply edit the text in the text entry field 3 7 8 Editing Source References Source references connect a Source to another object and allow you to provide additional information about the source When adding source references to events places etc the following dialog appears Figure 3 24
12. Source Information dialog Source Reference Editor GRAMPS x Source Reference Editor Reference information Date A Volume Page Y Shared source information Title Import from test2 ged Author ID 50003 Abbreviation Publication Information Note Any changes in the shared source information will be reflected in the source itself for all tems that reference the source The dialog includes two main headings Source selection and Source details Source selection displays the Title of the Source its Author and Publication information The Title can be selected from the available sources listed in the 50 3 7 9 Names drop down menu If the source you are referencing is not already in the database you can enter it by clicking New and filling out the invoked Source Editor dialog The Source details section indicates the details associated with the particular reference to this Source Confidence Volume Film Page Date Text and Comments You can choose the Confidence level from the Confidence drop down menu The remaining details can be typed in the corresponding text entry fields Q Information in this dialog is specific to the particular reference A single source can be referenced many times and all such references will have in common the overall source information This dialog lets you provide reference specific data such as relevant quotes comments confidence pag
13. Text Reports Text reports represent the desired information as formatted text Most of the options are common among text reports therefore they will be described only once at the end of this section The options which are specific to a given report will be described directly in that report s entry 64 3 9 5 Text Reports The following text reports are currently available in GRAMPS Ahnentafel Report Complete Individual Report Comprehensive Ancestors Report Descendant Report Detailed Ancestral Report Detailed Descendant Report FTM Style Ancestral Report FTM Style Descendant Report Family Group Report Individual Summary This report lists the Active Person and his or her ancestors along with their vital data The people are numbered in a special way which is an established standard called Ahnentafel The Active Person is given number 1 His or her father and mother have numbers 2 and 3 respectively This rule holds for every person while going back in generations father s parents are numbered 4 and 5 and mother s parents are numbered 6 and 7 fathers always numbered with even and mothers with odd numbers Therefore for any person having number N in this tree the numbers of father and mother are 2N and 2N 1 respectively This report provides individual summaries similar to that of the Individual Sum mary report The advantage of this report is the specific filter option Depending on the filter choice Ac
14. The database may also have references to non local external media objects therefore it is not guaranteed to be completely portable The GRAMPS XML database is created by saving File gt Save As or exporting File gt Export data in that format GRAMPS package The GRAMPS package is a compressed archive containing the GRAMPS XML file and all media objects images sound files etc to which the database refers 18 3 5 Exporting Data Because it contains all the media objects this format is completely portable The GRAMPS package is created by exporting File gt Export data in that format If you import information from another GRAMPS database or GRAMPS XML database you will see the progress of the operation in the progress bar of GRAMPS main window 3 5 Exporting Data Exporting allows you to share any portion of your GRAMPS database with other researchers as well as to enable you to transfer your data to another computer Currently GRAMPS can export data to the following formats GRAMPS database grdb GRAMPS XML GEDCOM GRAMPS package Web Family Tree and GeneWeb Export is saving a copy When you export you are saving a copy of the currently opened database Exporting creates another file with a copy of your data Note that the database that remains opened in your GRAMPS window is NOT the file saved by your export Additional editing of the currently opened database will not alter the copy produced
15. events sources and places You can also add images that might not be limited to a single person or event for example group family photos If you want to add an image to a single person switch to the People View Figure 2 2 Sidebar Viewing Mode select a person and then click the Edit icon on the toolbar This will bring up the Edit Person dialog Figure 3 8 Edit Person dialog Next select the Gallery tab and click the button to call up the Select a media object dialog Type a filename or browse to find the image file you want and then provide a title for that image Keep adding images until you are done To add images related to arelationship for example a marriage switch to the Family View Figure 2 6 Relationships View and double click on the Spouse box This calls up the Marriage Relationship editor dialog Select the Gallery tab and click the button to add an image To add images related to a source or a place first switch to the Source View Figure 2 13 Sources View or Place View Figure 2 14 Places View Select the source or place you want and then either double click on it or click the Edit icon on the toolbar Select the Gallery tab and click the button to add an image 26 3 6 6 To Edit Events Sources Places and Repositories Finally to add images that you want to include in the database but hare are not limited to any particular person relationship source or p
16. m Displays the marriage date of the person and the preferred spouse Yom M Displays the place assocated with the marriage of the person and the preferred spouse M 3 9 2 Books Currently the only available report under this category is the Book Report The Book Report creates a single document i e a Book containing a collection of graphical and textual reports Consequently this allows for a very rich set of documents that GRAMPS can produce When Book Report is selected the following book configuration dialog appears Figure 3 34 Book Report dialog Book Report Book name New Book See fg Available items Name Type Timeline Graph Graphics Calendar Graphics Descendant Chart Graphics Detailed Ancestral R Text Ancestor Chart Unsupported Current book item name Type Center person Soda Ed close Pox 62 3 9 3 Code Generators The Book name text entry field is used to save the book a set of configured selections for future use The top pane lists the items available for inclusion in the book The bottom pane lists the currently selected items in the order they will appear in the book The horizontal set of buttons by the Book name field operates on the whole book Click the Clear button to clear all items from the current book Click the Save button to save the current book under the name typed in the Book name text entry field for future use Q Tip Saving th
17. Death X Cancel 49 ok 2 1 2 1 Filters Genealogical databases can contain information on many people families places and objects It s therefore possible for a View to contain a long list of data that s difficult to work with GRAMPS gives you two different means for controlling this condition by allowing you to filter a list to a more manageable size These methods are Search and Filtering A search will search the text displayed in list whereas filters display people whose data match the criteria of the filter Search is a simple but fast method of searching the columns displayed on the screen Typing the characters into the Search box and clicking the Find button will display only lines that match the text Alternatively you can enable the Filter sidebar which will be displayed on the right hand side of the display When the filter sidebar is displayed the Search bar is not displayed The Filter side bar allows you to interactively build a set of filter rules that can be applied to the display The filter is applied based on the rules and the data not on the screen display Q Searching vs Filtering Searching only searches for exact text matches If the date displayed is Jan 1 2000 a search of 1 1 2000 will fail but a filter of 1 1 2000 will match 2 1 3 Relationships View Figure 2 5 Filter Controls Displayed file Edit View Go Bookmarks Reports Tools Help B e oo GU 3 B gt
18. EAEE ES EEIE REESS 50 37 9 Names 2 2 en u Rn Ss in ss A 51 3 7 10 Attrib tes 222 8128 A A es A to A EEA 52 IIA Addresses 2 42 28 es Ruben dea ride proc 54 3 71 12 Mergino records vii rhipeen oo erento iii 55 NN 0er I ir 58 3 8 1 Using the People Vie W ocio cil ee re na Bene 58 3 8 2 Using the Family Vie Wicca essen rise bes rendir 58 GRAMPS Manual V2 9 3 8 3 Using the Pedigree VIEW se sten ren area ehrt seele ner tet 59 3 8 4 Setting the Home Persons ish yasni 59 3 8 55 Using history based tools 2 nee ee nern et bedcodenendery 60 3 8 6 Bookmarking People ia ri ido 60 E A O RN 60 3 9 Generatin o Reports ut A a Sd 61 3 9 1 Substitution Values u 0 Beetle Reiters ira tapes 61 992 Ll A PR A Enger endet 62 A NA 63 3 94 Graphical Reports u RnB ln Ar i 64 399 A O 64 3 9 6 VIEW REPOrts nr dd a Ea 66 39 Je WED O hessen 66 3 10 Running TOONS sia a 68 3 10 0 Analys s and Expl r tion n n essen ser Reihe Res 68 3 10 2 Database Processing sa a2 Er RER A ELS 69 A RN 69 A gon baa ceed rennen 75 Al Preferences nasenne did ti 75 AG ri A DA ence dey Weeding 75 4 1 2 DiSsplay ia as See gos eo monk Su ved oss Canady ii 76 4 3 Name DISPLAY Rainer ink 76 O len Diele 78 AMS WAS IO Id 78 4 1 6 Researcher Information uns een E EEE EE EEE TES SE EENET 78 ALL Marker Colors iio E ele A A A A 78 RM scene ae Bee ara gene daesdaoneden hen Nele yeda death Aa EA E EE Renee 78 4 3 Adv
19. It can also be a complete single date but with quality of Estimated or Calculated Finally it could be a partial date i e a regular quality single date missing some portion e g May 1961 or 1961 38 3 7 2 Editing Dates While partial dates do not uniquely define the day they allow at least for some type of comparisons between the dates e Red circle means that the date is not recognized as a valid date e g Christmas week of 61 or the summer when I had surgery In such a case the date will be stored as a text string and therefore cannot be compared other dates As you can see it is best to avoid such date entries It would be better for example to enter a date of December 1961 and then to add the note Christmas week of 61 3 7 2 4 Graphical User Interface for Entering Dates While the above parsing rules provide a guide for you to type in most common dates you can also use Date selection dialog The dialog is particularly useful for building a complex date or for simply insuring that your information is entered in a wy GRAMPS will understand The Date selection dialog can be invoked by clicking the colored circle button next to the date entry field Figure 3 18 Date selection dialog Date selection GRAMPS X Date selection Calendar Quality Regular Regular Date Second date Day Month Year Day Month Year a El Jun s 1855 Text comment Help X Cancel 49 ok
20. Object from the Home Media Note ID menu on the Page Generation tab If the Media Object contains an image the image 1s displayed at the top of the page If the Media Object contains a Note the Note s text is used for the text of the page A second page the Introduction page works similarly Just choose the Media Object in the Introduction Media Note ID menu If you choose to include a contact page the researcher information stored in the database is displayed along with the information specified in the Publisher contact Note ID menu Please use this page with caution since you may con sider your contact information to be private Privacy of personal information is an important issue on the web today GRAMPS tries to give you control over the information that is presented GRAMPS provides two options to control the privacy of your information If you select the Do not include records marked private option any data that is marked as private will not be displayed on the generated site If you select Re strict information on living people GRAMPS will attempt to determine which people have the potential of still being alive and will omit these people from 67 3 10 Running Tools the database Some countries have laws that indicate that a certain number of years must pass after someone s death before information can be published The Years to restrict from person s death option allows you to specifiy how many years a person must b
21. Q Tip If a tab label is in boldface type this means it contains data If not it has no data The tabs represent the following categories of media data General The General tab lets you view and edit the object s Title and Date You can type this information directly into the corresponding fields For the Date you can also enter information by clicking the LED button and invoking the Date selection dialog 47 3 7 7 Editing Infor mation About Events Note Every media object is referred to by its Path The user is responsible for keeping track of the object files GRAMPS will only reference and display the contents not manage the files themselves Attributes The Attributes tab lets you view and edit particular information about the media object that can be expressed as Attributes The bottom part displays the list of all such attributes stored in the database The top part shows the details of the currently selected attribute in the list if any The buttons Edit and let you add modify or remove an attribute Note that the Edit and buttons become available only when an attribute is selected from the list Notes The Note tab provides a place to record various information about the source that does not fit neatly into other categories This area is particularly useful for recording information that does not naturally fit into the Parameter Value pairs available to Attributes To add a note or modify existing notes simply e
22. a GEDCOM file may be lost during import into GRAMPS Simply opening and viewing the file will not change it However if any changes were made and they were not abandoned upon exit exiting GRAMPS will save the data with possible data loss 3 3 Saving Changes to Your Database GRAMPS saves your changes as soon as you apply them This means for example that any time you click OK when using GRAMPS your changes are immediately recorded and saved There is no separate save command although there is a save as command that we ll discuss later 3 4 Importing Data You can undo changes you ve made by selecting Edit gt Undo If you select this command repeatedly your most recent changes will be undone one at a time To roll back multple commands at a time you can using the Undo History dialog available from the Edit menu If you want to return your database to the way it was when you opened it select File gt Abandon changes and quit This is just like quitting without saving in other programs If you would like to save your database under a different name you can do so by choosing File gt Save as and specifying the name and optionally the format of your new database Note that Save as will allow you to continue editing the newly saved database If this is not what you want to do you may wish to use the Export command instead 3 4 Importing Data Importing allows you to bring data from other genealogy programs into a GR
23. been ported by the Fink project Please contact the Fink project for more information Some people have had success using the DarwinPorts instead of the Fink project Yes as long as the required GNOME libraries are installed Yes but you do not have to be running the GNOME desktop This version of gramps requires GNOME 2 8 0 or higher Previous versions in 1 0 x series required GNOME 2 0 GRAMPS makes every effort to maintain compatibility with GEDCOM the general standard of recording genealogical information We have import and export filters that enable GRAMPS to read and write GEDCOM files It is important to understand that the GEDCOM standard is poorly implemented virtually every genealogical software has its own flavor of GEDCOM As we learn about new flavor the import export filters can be created very quickly However finding out about the unknown flavors requires user feedback Please feel free to inform us about any GEDCOM flavor not supported by GRAMPS and we will do our best to support it See above 81 Can GRAMPS write files readable by other genealogy programs Can GRAMPS print a genealogical tree for my family In what formats can GRAMPS out put its reports Is GRAMPS compatible with the Internet Can I create custom reports filters whatever What standards does GRAMPS support What is the maximum database size bytes GRAMPS can handle How many people can GRAMPS database han
24. by clicking the name of any person listed on the page Each name is actually a hypertext link similar to a web page Figure 2 6 Relationships View Ele Edit view Go Bookmarks Reports Jools Help bi a D a amp a a New Open Home ScratchPad Reports Tools Add Parents Share Parents Add Spouse amp People Garner Lewis Anderson d amp Relationships 1D 144 Birth 6 21 1855 in Great Falls MT dy Family List Death 6 28 1911 in Twin Falls ID 42 Pedigree amp Events Parents F18 RH E Sources Father Garner Robert W O b 4 24 1827 d 2 3 1916 Places Mother Zieliiski Phoebe Emily 9 amp Media b 4 12 1827 d 3 7 1882 Siblings 1 Garner Phebe Repositories b 1850 d before 1860 2 Garner Mary 9 b 10 12 1851 d 4 1 1852 3 Garner Mary M 9 b 10 12 1851 d 5 24 1858 4 Gamer 9 5 b 5 30 1857 d 4 9 1937 6 Z 144 Gamer Lewis Anderson 2 1 3 Relationships View The Relationships View displays the following sections Active Person Parents Family At the top of the screen name ID birth and death information of the Active Person is displayed If a photo of the person is available it is shown on the right hand side Next to the person s name is a symbol indicating gender and an Edit button Clicking the Edit button will allow you to edit all of the person s individual information in an Edit Person dialog The next section the Parents section displays
25. characters are valid ANSEL characters GRAMPS does not provide an option for ASCII Because ANSEL is not commonly used some genealogy programs will accept ANSI more commonly know as ISO 8859 1 and Unicode character sets Only select ANSI or Unicode if you know any program that attempts to read the GEDCOM file will understand these character sets The filter allows you to export a limited amount of data based on the criteria you select While GEDCOM is a standard not every program implements it in the same way This can lead to data loss GRAMPS can reduce the data loss in some cas es You can tell GRAMPS what program is the target and GRAMPS will cus tomize the exported file for that program If your program is not listed choose the GEDCOM 5 5 Standard Allows you to select a statement to describe your Copyright claim Check this box to prevent private records from being included in the exported file Check this box to limit the information exported for living people This means that all information concerning their birth death addresses significant events etc will be omitted in the exported GEDCOM file If you choose this option you will be given additional options to limit further the data on living people For example you can choose to substitute the word Living for the first name you can exclude notes and you can exclude sources for living people Sometimes it is not always obvious from the data if someone is ac
26. data with other programs and print different types of reports GRAMPS has all these capabilities and more Notably it allows you to integrate bits and pieces of data as they arise from your research and to put them in one place your computer You can then use your computer to manipulate correlate and analyze your data rather than messing with reams of paper 2 Typographical conventions In this book some words are marked with special typography e Applications e Commands you type at the command line e Filenames e Replaceable text e Labels for buttons and other portions of the graphical interface e Menu selections look like this Menu gt Submenu gt Menu Item e Buttons you can click Anything you type in The manual also provides assorted bits of additional information in tips and notes as follows Q Example Tip Tips and bits of extra information will look like this Example Note Notes will look like this Finally there are warnings notifying you where you should be careful 2 Typographical conventions O Example Warning This is what a warning looks like If there s a chance you ll run into trouble you will be warned before hand Chapter 1 Getting Started In this chapter we ll begin with the basics We ll show you how to start GRAMPS and how to get help when you need it 1 1 To Start GRAMPS You can start GRAMPS in the following ways From the Applications menu From the command li
27. different formats are available which may be dependent on your locale Surname Guessing This option affects the initial family name of a child when he she is added to the database Q Tip This option only affects the initial family name guessed by GRAMPS when the Edit Person dialog is launched You can mod ify that name the way you see fit Set this option to the value that you will most frequently use as it will save you a lot of typing If None is selected no guessing will be attempted Selecting Father s surname will use the family name of the father Selecting Combination of mother s and father s surname will use the father s name followed by the mother s name Fi nally Icelandic style will use the father s given name followed by the sson suffix e g the son of Edwin will be guessed as Edwinsson Status bar This option controls the information displayed in the status bar This can be ei ther the Active Person s name and GRAMPS ID or Active Person s relationship to the Home person Show text in sidebar buttons This option controls whether or not a text description is displayed next to the icon in the sidebar This option takes effect after the program has been restarted 4 1 3 Name Display This category contains preferences relevant to the display of names In GRAMPS there are two type of name display formats the predefined formats and the user defined custom formats The predefined formats are e Family name Given nam
28. field containing database entries that match your partial input This gives you a shortcut by letting you select an entry that already exists in the database rather than having to type it all out You can select the entry using your mouse or using your arrow and Enter keys The Edit that is the pen and paper icon next to the Prefix entry field invokes the Name Editor dialog This dialog allows editing the preferred name in full detail see Section 3 7 9 Names General The Gender menu offers the choice of person s gender male female and unknown The field ID displays the GRAMPS ID number which identifies the user in the database This value helps you distiguish between people who have the same name You may enter any unique value you want If you do not provide a value GRAMPS will automatically select a value for you The Marker allows you to specify some basic information on the status of your research The Privacy button lets you mark whether or not the person s record is considered private Image The Image area shows the first image available in the Gallery of this person if any exist The tabs reflect the following categories of personal data Events The Events tab lets you view and edit any events relevant to the person The bottom part of the window lists all such events stored in the database The top part shows the details of the currently selected event in the list if any The buttons Edit and allow you to add m
29. is available for opening import and export When not spec ified it can be guessed if the filename ends with gramps gedcom GEDCOM file This format is available for opening import and export When not specified it can be guessed if the filename ends with ged gramps pkg GRAMPS package This format is available for import and export When not specified it can be guessed if the filename ends with gpkg geneweb GeneWen file This format is available for import and export When not specified it can be guessed if the filename ends with gw wft Web Family Tree This format is available for export only When not specified it can be guessed if the filename ends with wft iso CD image This format is available for export only It must always be specified explicitly D 1 2 Opening options There are two ways to give GRAMPS the name of the file to be opened 93 D 1 3 Import options e supply bare file name e use the O filename or open filename option If the filename is given without any option flag the attempt to open the file will be made and then the interactive GRAMPS session will be launched Q Tip If no option is given just the file name GRAMPS will ignore the rest of the command line arguments Use the O flag to open the file and do something with the data The format can be specified with the f format or format format option immediately following the filename If not specified the guess will be attempte
30. operations This allows you to choose whether all rules must apply only one either rule must apply or exactly one either rule must apply in order for the filter to generate a match If your filter has only one rule this selection has no effect Check Return values that do not match the filter rules to invert the filter rule For example inverting has a common ancestor with Il rule will match everyone who does not have a common ancestor with that person Clicking the Add button invokes the following Add Rule dialog 70 3 10 3 Utilities Figure 3 36 Add Rule dialog Add Rule GRAMPS x Add Rule Rule Name Selected Rule rr People with lt id gt Everyone Females Description Males Matches people with a specified GRAMPS ID People having notes Values People having notes containin 1D Select People marked private People matching the lt filter gt People probably alive People with lt Id gt matching rel ee O A A 17 Help X Cancel Hor The pane on the left hand side displays available filter rules arranged by their categories in an expandable tree For detailed filter rule reference see Appendix C Filter rules reference Click on the arrows to fold unfold the appropriate category Select the rule from the tree by clicking on its name The right hand side displays the name the description and the values for the currently selected rule Once you are satisfied with your
31. rule selection and its values click OK to add this rule to the rule list of the currently edited filter Clicking Cancel will abort adding the rule to the filter Q Tip A filter you have already designed may be used as a rule for another filter This gives you nearly infinite flexibility in custom tailoring your selection criteria that can be later used in most of the exports reports and some of the tools such as comparing individual events 3 10 3 2 Scratch Pad This tool provides a temporary note pad to store database records for easy reuse In short this is a sort of the copy and paste functionality extended from textual objects to other types of records used in GRAMPS Q Tip Scratch Pad makes extensive use of drag and drop technique To invoke Scratch Pad either choose Tools gt Utilities gt Scratch Pad or click the ScratchPad button on the toolbar The following window will appear 71 3 10 3 Utilities Figure 3 37 Scratch Pad tool Scratch Pad GRAMPS x Type Title Value Person Link Smith Carl Emil 12 20 1899 8 Event Link Birth Birth of Anna Streiffert EventRef Census of Craig Peter Smith Census Source Link Marriage Certificae so Text But Aunt Martha still keeps the original 17 Help Clear All E Close Scratch Pad supports addresses attributes both personal and family events both personal and family names media objects references source references URLs and of course textual informa
32. suggestions to gramps develOlists sf net mailto gramps devel lists sf net What is GRAMPS Where do I get it and how much does it cost Does it work with Windows tm Does it work with the Mac Does it work with KDE Do I really have to have GNOME installed What version of GNOME do I need Is GRAMPS compatible with other genealogical software Can GRAMPS read files created by other genealogy programs GRAMPS is the Genealogical Research and Analysis Management Program System In other words it is a personal genealogy program letting you store edit and research genealogical data using the powers of your computer GRAMPS can be downloaded from http sf net projects gramps at no charge GRAMPS is an Open Source project covered by the GNU General Public Li cense You have full access to the source code and are allowed to distribute the program and source code freely No GRAMPS uses the GTK and GNOME libraries While the GTK libraries have been ported to Windows the GNOME libraries have not This however may change in the future The Fink project http fink sourceforge net has ported some older ver sions http fink sourceforge net pdb package php gramps of GRAMPS to OSX tm The Mac OSX port is not directly supported by the GRAMPS project primarily because none of the GRAMPS developers have access to Mac OSX and because OSX is not Free Software This version of GRAMPS 2 2 0 does not appear to have
33. the other record will be kept as alternate data Specifically all names from the other record will become alternate names of the merged record Similarly parents spouses and children of the other record will become alternate parents spouses and chil dren of the merged record and so on When exactly two people are selected choose Edit gt Fast Merge to invoke Merge People dialog Figure 3 29 Merge People dialog Merge People GRAMPS Merge People data for the merged person Andersen Samuel A 12059 Select the person that will provide the primary Help X Cancel ok The dialog allows you to quickly merge two records specifying the record to be used as the source of primary data The data from the other record will be kept as alternate data Specifically all names 56 3 7 12 Merging records from the other record will become alternate names of the merged record Similarly parents spouses and children of the other record will become alternate parents spouses and children of the merged record and so on Q Tip If you are not certain whether or not you need to merge the records or which record to specify as the source of primary data use Compare and Merge method described above 3 7 12 2 Merge Sources When exactly two sources are selected choose Edit gt Compare and Merge to invoke Merge Sources dialog Figure 3 30 Merge Sources dialog Merge Sources GRAMPS x Mer
34. to it grandparents in the next semicircle and so on for a total of five generations This report creates a complex relationship graph in GraphViz format and then converts into graphical output running it through the the GraphViz dot tool be hind the scene Specific options for this report include filter options for dates and places for the events and whether to include URLs and IDs for individuals and families There are also several GraphViz specific options related to pagi nation color and details of the graph This report can collect and display a wealth of statistical data about your database Specific options include filter sorting methods and additional birth and gender based limit for inclusion into statistics You can also set the mini mum number of items to qualify for the bar chart so that the charts with fewer items will generate a pie chart instead The Chart Selection tab allows you to check which charts you want to include in your report This report outputs the list of people with their lifetimes represented by inter vals on a common chronological scale Specific options include filter sorting method and the title of the report are the filename of the output the format of the output selected style page size and orientation Optionally the reports can be immediately opened with the default application u The options used in reports are persistent each report remembers its options used last time 3 9 5
35. window lists all such media objects 43 3 7 5 Editing Infor mation About Places and gives you a thumbnail preview of image files Other objects such as audio files movie files etc are represented by a generic GRAMPS icon The buttons Select Edit and let you add a new image add a reference to an existing image modify an existing image and remove a media object s link to the source Note that the Edit and buttons become available only when a media object is selected from the list Data The Data tab displays Key Value pairs that may be associated with the source These are similar to the Attributes used for other types of GRAMPS records The difference between these Key Value pairs and Attributes is that Attributes may have source references and notes while Key Value data may not The central part of the window lists all existing Key Value pairs The buttons and let you add and remove pairs To modify the text of Key or Value first select the desired entry Then click in either the Key or Value cell of that entry and type your text When you are done click outside the cell to exit editing mode Repositories The Repositories tab displays the references to the repositories in which the source is contained The list can be ordered by any of its column headings ID Title Call Number and Type Dou ble clicking an entry allows you to view and edit the record You may also edit the reference The buttons on the side of
36. 11039 female 7 18 1951 2 10 1952 Gamer Marguarite 1653 female Gamer Marie 1642 female Gamer Mark Gerard 1185 male 10 16 1962 Gamer Mary J 11114 female 10 12 1851 4 1 1852 144 Gamer Lewis Anderson 2 1 2 People View The People View lists the people stored in the database You ll note that people are grouped according to their family names To the left of each family name is typically either an arrow or some other type of indicator Clicking it once will reveal the entire list of people sharing that name Clicking the indicator again will roll up the list and show only the family name By default the People View displays the several columns of information about each person You can add or remove columns to and from the display by calling up the Column Editor dialog Edit gt Column Editor and checking or unchecking the boxes listed You can also change the position of a column in People View by clicking and dragging it to a new position in the Editor Once you have made the changes you want click OK to exit the Editor and see your changes in the People View Column Editor The Column Editor is available in all Views and works the same way in each 2 1 2 People View Figure 2 4 Column Editor Dialog Select Columns GRAMPS x Select Person Columns Display Column Name M ID Gender Birth Date Birth Place Death Date Death Place 4 4 K O Spouse Last Change Cause of
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38. 6 3 30 Merge Sources dialog u anoei en een Ta sn area en 57 3 31 Merge Places dialog nn anti es ie nes ne May dedads a tee 58 3 32 2 Edit Bookmarks dialog sun o ei I ia 60 3 33 Lype ahead find AA da oes i 61 3 34 Book Report dialog its recon sA EEN aE PEPS sash SATEN TEE copio eran fr 62 Vil GRAMPS Manual V2 9 3 39 Detimestilt t dialog ans sans ha en beunangepnten E E R Ep A e EEE ETa EAEE RNS EES 70 3 30 Add Rule dialog moi a de as 71 3 37 Scratch Pad tool er Seven RE sms le atari 72 41 Preferences dialo iii A a dE rege A dy 75 Vili Preface GRAMPS is a software package designed for genealogical research Although similar to other genealogical programs GRAMPS offers some unique and powerful features which we ll discuss below GRAMPS is an Open Source Software package which means you are free to make copies and distribute it to anyone you like It s developed and maintained by a worldwide team of volunteers whose goal is to make GRAMPS powerful yet easy to use 1 Why use GRAMPS Most genealogy programs allow you to enter information about your ancestors and descendants Typically they can display family relationships through charts graphs or reports Some allow you to include pictures or other media Most let you include information about people even if those people are not related to the primary family you happen to be researching And they may include features that let you exchange
39. 9 1925 Sources Gamer Joseph 1104 male 1792 Y Places Garner Kathryn Mary 1180 female 9 10 1952 amp Media Gamer Lewis 11105 male 11 18 1823 1 21 1911 m Repositories Gamer Lewis Anderson 144 male 6 21 1855 6 28 1911 Garner Louella Marie 1183 female Garner Margaret Ann 11039 female 7 18 1951 2 10 1952 Gamer Marguarite 1653 female Garner Marie 1642 female Garner Mark Gerard 1185 male 10 16 1962 Garner Mary J 11114 female 10 12 1851 4 1 1852 Gamer Mary M 1115 female 10 12 1851 5 24 1858 TE oma eat 144 Gamer Lewis Anderson 2 1 2 People View If you re in the Tabbed Viewing Mode you can select the View you want by clicking the corresponding notebook tab Figure 2 3 Tabbed Viewing Mode file Edit View Go Bookmarks Beports Tools Help E 4 A B 3 B New Open Back Forward Home ScratchPad Reports Tools Add Edit Remove m y T T amp People amp Relationships Family List Pedigree Events Sources wPlaces amp Media Repositories Name contains a Name 1D Gender Birth Date Death Date Garner Jennie S 1625 female 9 11 1880 6 20 1964 Gamer jesse V 1623 male 6 18 1876 1 21 1929 Gamer John Joseph 1186 male 8 15 1961 Gamer John Roger 1136 male 10 29 1925 Gamer Joseph 1104 male 1792 Gamer Kathryn Mary 1180 female 9 10 1952 Gamer Lewis 11105 male 11 18 1823 1 21 1911 Garner Lewis Anderson 144 male 6 21 1855 6 28 1911 Gamer Louella Mane 1183 female Gamer Margaret Ann
40. A Family List Gamer Jennie S 1625 female 9 11 1880 6 20 1964 ti Pedigree Garner Jesse V 1623 male 6 18 1876 1 21 1929 E Events Gamer John Joseph 1186 male 8 15 1961 Garner John Roger 1136 male 10 29 1925 Sources Gamer Joseph 1104 male 1792 Y Places Garner Kathryn Mary 1180 female 9 10 1952 amp Media Gamer Lewis 11105 male 11 18 1823 1 21 1911 2 Repositories Gamer Lewis Anderson 144 male 6 21 1855 6 28 1911 Garner Louella Marie 1183 female Garner Margaret Ann 11039 female 7 18 1951 2 10 1952 Garner Marguarite 1653 female Garner Marie 1642 female Gamer Mark Gerard 1185 male 10 16 1962 Garner Mary J 11114 female 10 12 1851 4 1 1852 Garner Mary M 11115 female 10 12 1851 5 24 1858 Caman Aimada mes Lamm aka 144 Gamer Lewis Anderson The main GRAMPS window contains the following elements Menubar Toolbar Progress Bar Status Bar Display area The menubar is located at the very top of the window right below the window title and provides access to all the features of GRAMPS The toolbar is located right below the menubar It gives you access to the most frequently used functions of GRAMPS You can set options that control how it appears by going to Edit gt Prefer ences You can also hide it entirely by going to View gt Toolbar The Progress Bar is located in the lower left corner of the GRAMPS window It displays the progress of time consuming operations such as opening and saving large databases im
41. AMPS database Currently GRAMPS can import data from the following formats e Another GRAMPS database having the gradb file extension e GEDCOM e GRAMPS XML e GRAMPS package GeneWeb Importing vs opening Please recognize that importing a database is different from opening a database When you import you are actually bringing data from one database into a GRAMPS database When you open a file you are editing your original file To import data select File gt Import The Import database dialog will open asking you to specify the file you wish to import Data loss with some formats It is important to note that the importing process is not perfect for GEDCOM and GeneWeb databases There is a chance that some of the data in these databases will not be imported into GRAMPS The GRAMPS database grdb GRAMPS XML and GRAMPS package are all native GRAMPS formats There is no risk of information loss when import or exporting to these formats GRAMPS database grdb The native GRAMPS database format is a specific form of Berkeley database BS DDB with a special structure of data tables This format is binary and architec ture dependent It is very quick and efficient but not generally portable across computers with different binary architecture e g i386 vs alpha GRAMPS XML The GRAMPS XML file was the default format for older versions of GRAMPS Unlike the grdb format it is architecture independent and human readable
42. Editor The rules are listed by their categories C 1 General filters This category includes the following most general rules Has complete record People with incomplete names Is bookmarked person Has text matching substring of Everyone People probably alive Has a name Has the Id Is default person People marked private Is a female People who have images People without a birth date Is a male This rule matches all people whose records are marked as complete Current ly the completeness of personal information is marked manually in the Edit Person dialog This rule matches all people with either given name or family name missing This rule matches all people who are on the bookmark list This rule matches all people whose records contain specified substring All tex tual records are searched Optionally the search can be made case sensitive or a regular expression match This rule matches any person in the database As such it is not very useful on its own except for testing purposes However it may be useful in combinations with other rules This rule matches all people whose records do not indicate their death and who are not unreasonably old judging by their available birth data and today s date This rule matches any person whose name matches the specified value in full or in part For example Marta Ericsdotter will be matched by the rule using the value eric for the family name Separat
43. GRAMPS Manual V2 9 Alex Roitman GRAMPS Project lt shurafgramps project org gt Donald N Allingham GRAMPS Project lt don gramps project org gt Donald N Allingham GRAMPS Project lt don gramps project org gt GRAMPS Manual V2 9 by Alex Roitman and Donald N Allingham Donald N Allingham GRAMPS Project lt don gramps project org gt Copyright 2001 Donald N Allingham Copyright 2003 2006 Alex Roitman Abstract The GRAMPS Manual is the user manual helping users to find their way around GRAMPS software All aspects are covered including the general details subtle tips preferences tools reports etc This manual is free software you can redistribute it and or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation either version 2 of the License or at your option any later version This manual is distributed in the hope that it will be useful but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY without even the implied warranty of MER CHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE See the GNU General Public License for more details You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program if not write to the Free Software Foundation Inc 59 Temple Place Suite 330 Boston MA 02111 1307 USA Table of Contents Preface 5225 35 see it ie se hie patos dado ix 1 Why use GRAMPS 2 222 22228 A ara RR A Se EA oh eS ix 2 Typographical Conve
44. Web and its format visit http cristal inria fr ddr Gene Web en vCalendar and vCard Exporting to vCalendar or vCard will save information in a format used in many calen daring and addressbook applications sometimes called PIM for Personal Information Manager 3 6 Entering and Editing Data Quick Start Overview This section is designed to give you the basic knowledge necessary to start putting your genealogical information into GRAMPS It will explain how to enter people into the database and how to specify their family relationships A more detailed explanation will follow in the section entitled Section 3 7 Entering and Editing Data Complete Description First let s identify the types of information you can enter into your GRAMPS database These include e Personal information about an individual names addresses birth and death dates etc e Information about an individual s relationships marriages divorces civil unions etc e Information about an individual s parents and children e Sources that document your research Keybindings In addition to interacting with GRAMPS through menu items and buttons you can use its extensive set of keybindings For more information see Appendix B Keybindings reference Now let s take a quick look at how you can enter and edit these various types of information 3 6 1 To Add or Edit a Person There are multiple ways to add a person to the database We will cover some o
45. adio button to specify the title of the merged record or specify Other and enter new text then click OK 3 8 Navigation As long as any database is open GRAMPS is focused on a single person usually referred to as an Active Person This allows you to view or modify the data concerning this person his or her immediate family etc Navigating in the database i e moving from person to person is in fact nothing else but changing the Active Person This section describes many alternative ways to navigate through the database using both the complex and the convenient interfaces GRAMPS provides All these ways eventually accomplish the same thing but some are more convenient than others depending what you are doing in GRAMPS at the moment 3 8 1 Using the People View The most intuitive way to select an Active Person is to use the People View see Section 2 1 2 People View When in the People View just select the name of the desired person from the list by clicking that list entry The person you have selected becomes active The statusbar updates to reflect the change of the active person 3 8 2 Using the Family View When in the Family View see Section 2 1 3 Relationships View you can easily navigate between the members of the displayed family as follows e To make the currently selected spouse the Active Person click the double arrow button to the right of the Active Person box Alternatively right click into the spouse
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47. appropriate menu items will contain submenus listing all spouses siblings children and parents of the corresponding person Q Advantages of using right click menus e Direct access to spouse and siblings e Complete lists of all member of all categories not only the preferred members 3 8 4 Setting the Home Person One and only one person in the database can be selected as the Home person Once the Home person is selected moving to that person becomes a matter of a single click regardless of which view you are using at the moment To set the Home person first navigate to that person using any method you like Then choose Edit gt Set Home person Once this is done you can move to the Home person from anywhere in the database by simply clicking the Home icon on the toolbar You can also choose Go gt Home from the menu or select Home item from any context menu available on the right click 59 3 8 5 Using history based tools 3 8 5 Using history based tools GRAMPS also features a powerful set of history based navigation tools These tools are similar to those commonly used in web browsers They include Back and Forward items available from the Go menu context menus available in People Family and Pedigree views and the toolbar buttons They also include the list of the recent selections available under the Go menu that allows you to jump directly to any of the recent selections Finally right clicking on the Back and Forwa
48. are created it may be difficult to transfer the files to an external web host To aid in this you may directly create a gzip d tar file to more easily upload the data This is the format that should be used if you would like to take advantage of the free genealogy page hosting at the GRAMPS web hosting site http family gramps project org To select the gzip d tar file select the Store web pages in tar gz archive option Like the previous web page generator and most of the other GRAMPS reports you can control what is included in the output by choosing a filter Several default filters are provided for you but you are free to use the Custom Filter Editor tool to create your own Any person matching this filter who is not excluded due to the privacy rules will be included in the output The default filter includes all people in the database 66 3 9 7 Web Page Applying a style sheet Character set encoding Copyright notice Controlling page generation Privacy GRAMPS provides six built in style sheets for your web page Each of these style sheets produces a unique look for your pages The generated style sheet is named narrative css You may edit this file if you wish to further cus tomize your site If you make modifications to your style sheet you need to be aware the regen erating the pages with the same output directory will overwrite your changes to this file To prevent this from happening make sure you ch
49. ary 31 1889 Ronne Bornholm Denmark 4 Pedigree Birth of Carl Emil Smith E0020 Birth December 20 1899 Ronne Bornholm Denmark E events Birth of Craig Peter Smith E0039 Birth after 1966 San Francisco San Francisc A Birth of Darcy Horne E0048 Birth July 2 1966 Sacramento Sacramento C Y Sources Birth of Edwin Michael Smith E0055 Birth May 24 1961 San Jose Santa Clara Co CA Places Birth of Edwin willard E0068 Birth about 1886 amp Media Birth of Elna jefferson E0052 Birth September 14 1800 Gladsax Kristianstad Lan S Birth of emi smith 0074 Bith september 27 1860 Simrishamn kristianstad La aprenda Birth of Eric Lloyd Smith E0017 Birth August 28 1963 San Francisco San Francisc Birth of Evelyn Michaels E0008 Birth about 1897 Birth of Gus Smith E0010 Birth September 11 1897 Ronne Bornholm Denmark Birth of Gustaf Smith Sr E0029 Birth November 28 1862 Grostorp Kristianstad Lan Birth of Hanna Smith E0005 Birth january 29 1821 Gladsax Kristianstad Lan S Birth of Hans Peter Smith E0003 Birth April 17 1904 Ronne Bornholm Denmark Birth of Herman lulius Nielsen FONDA Rirth Aunust R1 _1ARQ Ranne_Rarnholm Nenmark s IT Warning Because events can be shared you should take the extra time to give each event a unique and meaningful description This will help you find the correct event if you decide to share events The list of Events can be sorted in the usual manner by clicking on the column heading Cli
50. atches people who are descendants of the specified person The In clusive option determines whether the specified person should be considered his her own descendant useful for building reports You can either enter the ID into a text entry field or select a person from the list by clicking Select button In the latter case the ID will appear in the text field after the selection was made Is a descendant of person at least N This rule matches people who are descendants of the specified person and are at generations away least N generations away from that person in their lineage For example using this rule with the value of 2 for the number of generations will match grandchil dren great grandchildren etc but not the children of the specified person Is a descendant of person not more This rule matches people who are descendants of the specified person and are no than N generations away more than N generations away from that person in their lineage For example using this rule with the value of 2 for the number of generations will match children and grandchildren but not great grandchildren etc of the specified person Is a descendant of filter match This rule matches people who are descendants of someone who is matched by the specified filter The specified filter name should be selected from the menu Is a descendant family member of This rule not only matches people who are descendants of the specified person but also those
51. ation about events sources places and repositories already present in the database switch to the appro priate view select an entry you would like to view modify and then click the Edit icon on the toolbar Alternatively you may double click on the entry to edit it 3 7 Entering and Editing Data Complete De scription The previous section offered you a quick overview of how to enter and edit data in GRAMPS This section continues that discussion in much greater detail As we have seen above GRAMPS offers you a series of Views Each of these Views gives you opportunities to enter and edit information In fact you can often get to the same information from different Views In GRAMPS information is entered and edited through what we call dialogs Since we use that term frequently we should define what we mean by it A dialog is a pop up window that provides one or more forms for entering and editing data that fits a certain category Examples in GRAMPS include the Edit Person dialog and the Family Editor dialog among many others A dialog often includes a series of notebook tabs that group the information into subcategories For example the Edit Person dialog has notebook tabs for subcategories such as Events Attributes Addresses and Notes among others Add Remove and Edit buttons In most cases GRAMPS uses a to correspond to Add a correspond to Remove and an icon of a pen on a sheet of paper to denote Edit We will c
52. ays the number of ancestors of the active person This report displays the overall statistics concerning number of individuals of each gender various incomplete entries statistics as well as family and media statistics The only available report in this category is the Narrative Web Site report It generates a web site that is a set of linked web pages for a set of selected individuals 3 9 7 1 Narrative Web Site Introduction Selecting the output Applying a filter GRAMPS 2 0 6 introduced the Narrative Web generator The new tool provides considerably more functionality than the older web generator Instead of using HTML templates to customize the pages CSS style sheets are used More information is now displayed about each person along with information about sources places and media objects Introduction pages can be added to provide additional information such as family history Genealogy records can generate a lot of files Many web servers have a difficult time with many files in a single directory The Narrative Web Generator strives to keep the number of files per directory to a managable level To do this a hierarchy of directores is created The generated files names are not intuitive but are unique per person Subsequent runs will geneate identical file names making it easy to replace files By default the output files are written to the specified directory Because of the number of files and directories that
53. base records events or LDS ordinances that refer to a place This information cannot be modified from the Place Editor dialog Instead the corresponding database record e g a birth event has to be brought up and its place reference edited 3 7 6 Editing Information About Media Objects To edit media data switch to the Media View and select the desired entry in the list of sources Double click on that entry or click Edit on the toolbar to invoke the following Media Properties Editor dialog 46 3 7 6 Editing Informa tion About Media Objects Figure 3 22 Media Properties Editor dialog Media Properties Editor GRAMPS x Media Properties Editor ee ID 00000 Date fo A PDF document Path home dona Documents 10123 pdf Sources Attributes Note amp References ID Title Author Page do A thumbnail preview of the object is presented along with a summary of its properties ID path and object type The central part of the window displays five notebook tabs containing different categories of information Click a tab to view or edit its contents The bottom part of the window has OK and Cancel buttons Clicking OK will apply all the changes made in all tabs and close the dialog window Clicking the Cancel button will close the window without applying any changes Note Clicking OK will immediately save changes to the database write on disk All changes are immediate
54. be accessed through the menu by choosing Reports gt Report Type gt Particular Report Alternatively you can browse the complete selection of available reports along with their brief descriptions in a Report Selection dialog invoked by clicking the Reports icon on the toolbar 3 9 1 Substitution Values Many of the graphical reports allow you to customize the information on the display Variable substitutions are used to substitute date for a particular symbol There are two styles of variables The difference between the two styles is how empty data is handled The first style of variables are preceeded by a If the variable evaluates to an empty string the variable is replaced with the empty string The second style of variables are preceeded by a If the variable evaluates to an empty string the line that contains the variable is removed from the output n n Displays the person s name in the form of FirstName LastName N Displays the person s name in the form of LastName FirstName N 61 3 9 2 Books i i Displays the GRAMPS ID associated with the person b b Displays the person s date of birth B B Displays the person s place of birth d d Displays the person s date of death D Displays the person s place of death D s s Displays the name of the person s preferred spouse in the form of FirstName LastName S S Displays the name of the person s preferred spouse in the form of LastName FirstName
55. box and select Make the selected spouse an Active Person item from the context menu e To make the currently selected parents the active family thereby making father the Active Person and mother the selected spouse click the right arrow button to the right of the active person s parents box Alternatively right click into the active person s parents box and select Make the selected parents the active family item from the context menu e To make the currently selected spouse s parents the active family thereby making father the Active Person and mother the selected spouse click the right arrow button to the right of the spouse s parents box Alternatively 58 3 8 3 Using the Pedigree View right click into the spouse s parents box and select Make the selected parents the active family item from the context menu To make the currently selected child the Active Person click the left arrow button to the right of the children box Alternatively right click into the children box and select Make the selected child an Active Person item from the context menu In addition to this GRAMPS provides an extensive set of keyboard navigation options The detailed reference to the key bindings is found in the Appendix B Keybindings reference 3 8 3 Using the Pedigree View The Pedigree View see Section 2 1 5 Pedigree View also allows you to move along the family tree The benefit of this method is that you can see more than one
56. by the export To export data choose File gt Export This will bring up the Export assistant Its pages will guide you through the format selection see Figure 3 1 Export assistant format selection file selection and format specific export options see Figure 3 2 Export assistant GEDCOM options After a final confirmation page the export will be performed according to the choices you have made At any time you can click the Back and revise any selection and then go forward to redo the export Figure 3 1 Export assistant format selection Export Assistant GRAMPS HEMER Choosing the format to save CS GRAMPS GRDB database GEDCOM GRAMPS XML database O Export to CD portable XML O GRAMPS package portable XML O vcard vCalendar Web Family Tree O GeneWeb X Cancel Back gt Eorward 3 5 1 Exporting into the GEDCOM format GRAMPS allows you to export a database into the common GEDCOM format It provides options that allow you to fine tune your export see Figure 3 2 Export assistant GEDCOM options 3 5 1 Exporting into the GEDCOM format Encoding Filter Target Copyright Do not include records marked pri vate Restrict data on living people Reference images from path Since different languages use different characters 1t is important to tell a GED COM file what character set is used The two formats traditionally accepted are ASCII and ANSEL Since all ASCH
57. ces 6 21 1855 lt 4 6 28 1911 amp Media Pt ar P Pepositories about 9 0 1784 4 Fan IL 4 gt Daniels Phoebe e A his 4 E CT ID 144 Gamer Lewis Anderson To the left ofthe Active Person is a left arrow button If the Active Person has children clicking this button expands a list of the Active Person s children Selecting one of the children makes that child the Active Person The appearance of the children s names in the menu differentiates the dead ends of the tree from the continuing branch es Children who have children themselves appear in the menu in the boldface and italic type while children without children dead ends appear in a regular font Ifthe Active Person has only one child no menu will be displayed since there is only one choice and the child will become the Active Person when the arrow button is clicked Figure 2 10 Children Menu Y Places 6 21 1855 m l 19011011 amp Media Garner Eugene Stanley Y Garner Jesse V Garner Raymond E Garner Jennie S Garner Walter E Garner Daniel Webster Garner Bertha P Garner Elizabeth Repositories a 144 Garner Lewis Anderson The right hand side of the window shows two right arrow buttons When the top button is clicked the Father of the Active Person becomes the Active Person When the bottom button is clicked the Mother of the Active Person becomes the Active Pe
58. cking once sorts in ascending order clicking again sorts in descending order The Column Editor dialog can be used to add remove and rearrange the displayed columns 2 1 7 Sources View Sources View lists the sources of certain information stored in the database These can include various documents birth death and marriage certificates etc books films journals private diaries nearly anything that can provide genealogical evidence GRAMPS gives you the option to provide a source for each event you record births deaths marriages etc The Sources View lists the Title ID and Author of the source as well as any Publication information that may be associated with it The list of Sources can be sorted by clicking on a column heading Clicking once sorts in ascending order clicking again sorts in descending order The Column Editor dialog can be used to add remove and rearrange the displayed columns 13 2 1 8 Places View Figure 2 13 Sources View file Edit view Bookmarks Reports Tools Help 6 O BB 3 BB New Open ScratchPad Reports Tools Add Edit Remove amp People Title contains il y End Clear Relationships z gt Title ID Author Publication Information Family List Birth Certificate s 42 Pedigree Birth Death and Marriage R S3 Birth Records s2 E Events Marriage Certificae so 3 Sources Places amp Media dis Pepositones 2 1 8 Places View The P
59. cted from the list 53 3 7 11 Addresses Note The Note tab displays any notes concerning the attribute To add a note or modify existing notes simply edit the text in the text entry field The Format option allows you to set the appearance of the note in the output i e in reports and web pages Selecting Flowed will replace all multiple spaces tabs and single end of line characters with single space in the output The two consecutive new lines i e an empty line denote a new paragraph Selecting Preformatted will honor all multiple spaces tabs and new lines so that the output will appear as it is entered into the text entry field 3 7 11 Addresses Addresses are edited through the following Address Editor dialog Figure 3 27 Address Editor dialog Address Editor GRAMPS x Address Editor Date January 2 2000 Address 1600 Pennsylvania Ave u City County Washington DC State Province District of Columbia ZIP Postal code Country USA Phone Author The top of the window shows the dialog title including the name of the person whose address is being edited The central part of the window displays three notebook tabs containing different categories of available information You can bring any tab to the top for viewing or editing by clicking on the appropriate tab heading The bottom part has OK and Cancel buttons Clicking the OK button at any time will apply all the chang
60. ctive when database opened when Home button is clicked or the Home menu item is selected from either Go menu or the right click context menu anywhere To set Home person make the desired person active and then choose Edit gt Set Home person Adjusting viewing controls Whether the toolbar the sidebar or the filter People View only are displayed in the main window is adjusted through the View menu 4 3 Advanced manipulation of settings Q Warning The contents of this section is outside the scope of interest of a general user of GRAMPS If you proceed with tweaking the options on the low level you may damage your GRAMPS installation Be careful YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED By default GRAMPS stores its settings using gconf2 system All the settings used in this version of GRAMPS are stored in subdirectories under apps gramps in the gconf2 namespace Accessing the keys can be done either using gconftool 2 command line tool or the gconf editor GUI tool All keys are documented and the notification mechanisms are used as appropriate Therefore updating keys from outside of GRAMPS should lead to updating GRAMPS in real time without necessarily restarting it 79 80 Appendix Questions A Frequently Asked This appendix contains the list of questions that frequently come up in mailing list discussions and forums This list is by no means complete If you would like to add questions answers to this list please email your
61. d Married F107 Douglas Abraham Alvarado Nancy Married F108 Alvarado Col Charles Parent Eleanor Married F109 Parent Capt Jacob C James Jane Married F11 Warner Martin Bogarte Page Clara Belle Married F110 james Thomas Sr Benson Martha Ellen M Married F111 james Hugh Sr Serrano Caroline Married Warning 2 1 5 Pedigree View Unlike the Relationships View clicking the Remove button in this view will remove the family from the database All people will remain but all relationships between the people in the family will be removed The Pedigree View displays a family tree of the Active Person s ancestors The Pedigree View shows up to five generations depending on the size of the window Each person is indicated by a box labeled with his or her name birth and death information and optionally an image if available Two lines branch from each box The top one shows the person s father and the bottom one the mother Solid lines represent birth relations while dashed lines represent non birth relations such as adoption step parenthood guardianship etc 10 2 1 5 Pedigree View Figure 2 9 Pedigree View file Edit View Go Bookmarks Reports Jools Help o e e O Q New Open Back Home ScratchPad Reports Tools amp People amp Relationships amp Family List m P Pedigree 1792 i ae a il E Events Y 4 gt em eo Sources 1 17 1799 i Garner Lewis Anderson y 4 2 1879 En Pla
62. d based on the filename Q Tip Only grdb gramps xml and gedcom formats can be opened directly For other formats you will need to use the import option which will set up the empty database and then import data into it Q Tip Only a single file can be opened If you need to combine data from several sources you will need to use the import option D 1 3 Import options The files destined for import can be specified with the i filename or import filename option The format can be specified with the f format or format format option immediately following the filename If not specified the guess will be attempted based on the filename Tip More than one file can be imported in one command If this is the case GRAMPS will incorporate the data from the next file into the database available at the moment When more than one input file is given each has to be preceded by i flag The files are imported in the specified order Le ifilel ifile2 and i file2 ifilel might produce different GRAMPS IDs in the resulting database D 1 4 Export options The files destined for export can be specified with the o filename or output filename option The format can be specified with the f option immediately following the filename If not specified the guess will be attempted based on the filename For iso format the filename is actually the name of directory the GRAMPS database will be written into For grdb gramps xml gedcom wft gen
63. d name Family Gamer Prefix Given Lewis Anderson Call Name Title Suffix Type Birth Name General ID 144 Marker gt Gender male 2 Events Names gt Sources Attributes Addresses B Note lt Gallery 2 Internet Associations LDS l i I l ID Title Author Page de 50003 Import from test2 ged Heip X Cancel mpm The Sources tab allows you to view and document the sources for the information you collect These might be general sources that do not describe a specific event but which nevertheless yield information about the person For example if Aunt Martha s memoirs mention her great grandson Paul the researcher may assume that this Paul actually existed and cite Aunt Martha s memoirs as the source that justifies this assumption Q Tip Sources which document specific events are best recorded as sources of the event under the Events tab instead of as a source of the person The person s Sources tab is best used for any sources not specificly connected to any other data The central part displays the list of all source references stored in the database in relation to the person The buttons Edit and allow you to correspondingly add modify and remove a source reference to this person Note that the Edit and buttons become available only when a source reference is selected from the list 33 3 7 1 Editing Infor mation About People
64. database The but tons Edit and allow you to correspondingly add modify and remove a source reference to this name Note that the Edit and buttons become available only when a source reference is selected from the list The Note tab displays any notes concerning the name To add a note or modify existing notes simply edit the text in the text entry field The Format option allows you to set the appearance of the note in the output i e in reports and web pages Selecting Flowed will replace all multiple spaces tabs and single end of line characters with single space in the output The two consecutive new lines i e an empty line denote a new paragraph Selecting Preformatted will honor all multiple spaces tabs and new lines so that the output will appear as it is entered into the text entry field 3 7 10 Attributes Attributes are edited through the following Attribute Editor dialog 52 3 7 10 Attributes Figure 3 26 Attribute Editor dialog Attribute Editor GRAMPS X Attribute Editor Attribute Social Security Number gt Value 123 456 720 4 Sources Note Help X Cancel The top of the window shows the dialog title including the name of the person whose attribute is being edited The central part of the window displays three notebook tabs containing different categories of available information You can bring any tab to the top for viewing or editing by clicking on the appropria
65. descendants spouses C 6 Relationship filters This category includes the following rules that match people based on their mutual relationship Relationship path between two peo This rule matches all ancestors of both people back to their common ances ple tors 1f exist This produces the relationship path between these two people through their common ancestors You can either enter the ID of each person into the appropriate text entry fields or select people from the list by clicking their Select buttons In the latter case the ID will appear in the text field after the selection was made C 7 Miscellaneous filters This category includes the following rules which do not naturally fit into any of the above categories Has the personal attribute This rule matches people who have the personal attribute of the specified value The specified personal attribute name should be selected from the menu The specified value should be typed into the text entry field Has the family attribute This rule matches people who have the family attribute of the specified value The specified family attribute should be selected from the menu The specified value should be typed into the text entry field 90 C 7 Miscellaneous filters Matches the filter named This rule matches people who are matched by the specified filter The specified filter name should be selected from the menu 91 92 Appendix D Command line ref
66. dit button on the Toolbar or double click on the family e From Pedigree View point your mouse over the black line connecting the spouses right click and select Edit from the context menu or double click on the black line Any of these methods will prompt you with the following Family Editor dialog Figure 3 19 Family Editor dialog Family Editor GHAMPS x Family Editor Father Mother Name Garner Lewis Anderson 144 2 Name Martel Luella Jacques 145 Y Birth June 21 1855 Birth January 23 1852 Death June 28 1911 Death April 28 1921 Relationship Information ID F17 Type Married Marker gt tb amp Children amp Events gt Sources Attributes Note Gallery LOS 7 ID Name Gender Paternal Maternal Birth Date e 1 146 Garner Eugene Stanley male Birth Birth December 1 1895 2 1623 Garner Jesse V male Birth Birth June 18 1876 a 3 1624 Garner Raymond E male Birth Adopted September 16 1878 4 1625 Garner Jennie S female Birth Birth September 11 1880 5 1626 Garner Walter E male Birth Birth February 17 1882 Help X Cancel YH ok The top of the window shows the names of the people whose relationship is being edited as well as their birth and death information The main part of the window displays three Relationship Information fields and the seven notebook tabs representing different categories of information about the relationship Click any tab to v
67. dit the text in the text entry field References The References tab indicates any database records that refer to a given media object The list can be ordered according to any of its column headings Type ID or Name Double clicking an entry allows you to view and edit the corresponding record Note Only primary objects can be shown in the References tab Person Family Event Source or Place The secondary objects such as Names and Attributes although able to refer the media object will only show up through their primary objects to which they belong 3 7 7 Editing Information About Events Events are edited through the Event Editor dialog This dialog can be accessed from either the Edit Person dialog or the Marriage Relationship dialog 48 3 7 7 Editing Infor mation About Events Figure 3 23 Event Editor dialog x Event Editor GRAMPS Event Editor event type pate je JA Description ng Cause Place Rockingham NC P1120 4 Sources Note Gallery 2 References Author The central part of the window displays five notebook tabs containing different categories of information Click a tab to view or edit its contents The bottom part of the window has OK and Cancel buttons Clicking OK will apply all the changes made in all tabs and close the dialog window Clicking the Cancel button will close the window without applying any changes
68. dle Why is GRAMPS running so slow ly See above Yes Different people have different ideas of what a genealogical tree is Some think of it as a chart going from the distant ancestor and listing all his her de scendants and their families Others think it should be a chart going from the person back in time listing the ancestors and their families Yet other people think of a table text report etc GRAMPS can produce any of the above and many more different charts and reports Moreover the plugin architecture enables users you to create their own plugins which could be new reports charts or research tools Text reports are available in HTML PDF AbiWord KWord LaTeX RTF and OpenOffice formats Graphical reports charts and diagrams are available in PostScript PDF SVG OpenOffice and GraphViz formats GRAMPS can store web addresses and direct your browser to them It can im port data that you download from the Internet It can export data that you could send over the Internet GRAMPS is familiar with the standard file formats wide ly used on the Internet e g JPEG PNG and GIF images MP3 OGG and WAV sound files QuickTime MPEG and AVI movie files etc Other than that there is little that a genealogical program can do with the Internet Yes There are many levels of customization One is creating or modifying the templates used for the reports This gives you some control over the fonts col ors and some la
69. e Place and Description The rule returns a match even if the person s event matches the value partially The matching rules are case in sensitive For example anyone who was married in Sweden will be matched by the rule using the Marriage event and the value sw for the Place The family events should be selected from a pull down menu The rule returns a match if and only if all non empty values are partially matched by the personal event To use just one value leave the other values empty This rule matches people who are present as a witness in the event Ifthe person al or family event type is specified only the events of this type will be searched This rule matches people missing date or place in any personal event This rule matches people missing date or place in any family event of any of their families C 3 Family filters This category includes the following rules that match people based on their family relationships 88 C 4 Ancestral filters People with children People with multiple marriage records People with no marriage records People who were adopted Has the relationships Is spouse of filter match Is a child of filter match Is a parent of filter match Is a sibling of filter match This rule matches people with children This rule matches people with more than one spouse This rule matches people with no spouses This rule matches adopted people This rule matches people wit
70. e Patronymic 76 4 1 3 Name Display e Given name Family name e Patronymic Given name e Given name When predefined formats are not suitable one can define it s own format Display format The system wide name format is selected here from a list which contains both the predefined and custom name formats if any Note Besides the system wide setting GRAMPS allows deciding the name display format individually for every single name via the Name Editor dialog see Section 3 7 9 Names Custom format details It expands the custom format handling user interface Note Custom name display formats are stored in the databases thus before loading any database the Custom format details expander is disabled Add Opens the Name Format Editor window to define a new custom format Remove Deletes the selected custom Name Display format Edit Opens the Name Format Editor window to modify the selected custom Name Display format 4 1 3 1 Name Format Editor New formats are created and existing formats are modified using this editor Format name The name of the custom format The format name can be any string it is used only to recognize the format later on the Display format list Format definition The actual format is defined here using special formatting characters Before and after these special characters any other character or string is allowed For exmple t SL vf will give Dr SMITH Edwin The formatti
71. e book also saves the configuration for each item Click the Open button to load the book from the list of previously saved books Finally click the Edit books button to invoke the editable list of available books The vertical set of buttons to the right of the bottom pane operates on the selected book item Click the Add button to add selected item from the available list to the current book Click the Remove button to remove an item from the current book Use Up and Down to change the items order in the current book Click the Setup button to configure the options of the selected item of the current book The configuration dialogs invoked by Setup are item specific If you choose not to configure the item same defaults will be used for all needed options The common option for almost all book items is the center person the person on whom the item is centered Thanks to this option you can create a book with items centered on different people e g your mom s and dad s ancestors as separate chapters By default the center person is set to the Active Person Almost all items available for inclusion in the book are textual or graphical reports and are therefore available in the form of standalone reports The exception is the following items which are only available as book items Title Page This item produces a customized Title page You can configure the text of title subtitle and the footer of the page An image can be optionally placed bet
72. e deceased before the information is included Please note that it is your responsibility to double check all information in the pages for any privacy information GRAMPS cannot be held responsible for any privacy issues Adding custom code your pages If you are not interested in customizing your pages you may skip the section The previous web generator allowed you to customize your pages using HTML templates Your data would be substituted for certain markers in the code This method proved to be too cumbersome for most users The Narrative Web Page Generator introduces a simpler mechanism On the Page Generation tab you may specify text including HTML code that will be inserted into each page separately for the header and the footer To create this code you need to create a Media Object marked as an internal note To create this add a new Media Object in the Media View and select the internal note option You may then enter your HTML code To insert the code from the internal notes into the web pages select the ap propriate Media Objects from the HTML user header and HTML user footer menus Two div sections will be added to the pages userheader and userfooter The corresponding HTML code is inserted into the HTML page surrounded by div markers You can customize your style sheet to provide additional format ting and positioning information to control these sections 3 10 Running Tools GRAMPS tools allow you to perform vari
73. e jpeg home dona gramps svnjex 15 2 1 10 Repositories View 2 1 10 Repositories View Version 2 2 adds support for Repositories A repository can be thought of as a collection of sources Each source in the database can reference a repository such as a library in which it belongs The functionality of the Repositories View is similar to the other views Figure 2 16 Repositories View file Edit View Bookmarks Reports Jools tjelp 6 DO U 3 A New Open ScratchPad Reports Tools Add Edt Remove amp People Name contains EN Clear aries Name ID Type Home URL Street amp Family List Aunt Martha s Attic R0001 Collection httpy library gramps project org 123 Main St 42 Pedigree New York Public Library R0000 Library 5th Ave at 42 street Events Sources Places amp Media 16 Chapter 3 Usage Now we turn to a detailed exploration of the day to day use of GRAMPS First we should point out that GRAMPS often offers more than one way to do the same task We ll try to point out some of these alternatives where appropriate 3 1 Starting a New Database To start a new database choose File gt New or select the New button from the toolbar You will then be asked to give the new database a name GRAMPS databases GRAMPS stores your data in a Berkeley database sometimes known as BSDDB These files have grdb as their default extension The extension is automatically added to your
74. e numbers etc to further specify and document the reference 3 7 9 Names Names are edited through the following Name Editor dialog Figure 3 25 Name Editor dialog Name Editor GRAMPS x Name Editor Family Garner Prefix Given Call Name Title Suffix Patronymic Type General Note Options Group as O Override Sor as Family name Given Name Patronymic lt Display as Family name Given Name Patronymic Date A The top of the window shows the dialog title including the name of the person whose name is being edited The central part of the window displays three notebook tabs containing different categories of available information You can 51 3 7 10 Attributes bring any tab to the top for viewing or editing by clicking on the appropriate tab heading The bottom part has OK and Cancel buttons Clicking the OK button at any time will apply all the changes made in all tabs and close the dialog window Clicking the Cancel button at any time will close the window without applying any changes Q Tip The tab labels reflect the presence of corresponding information if the tab contains any data its label appears boldface if the tab has no data then its label appears regular not bold The tabs provide the following information categories of the name data General Sources Note The General tab allows editing of general information about the name given name family
75. e people who could theoretically have a relationship with the Active Person That is GRAMPS only shows those people whose birth dates and death dates fit within the lifetime of the Active Person If you wish you can add a person to the list by clicking the button To completely override the filter and display all people from the database check the Show all box To edit an existing relationship from the Relationships View click on the Edit button next to corresponding Family entry If there is more than one relationship in the list you can select the spouse or partner you want by clicking the corresponding Edit button next to the relationship To specify a new relationship in the Family List View click on the Add button on the toolbar and an empty Edit Family dialog will open At this point you can add people to the family 3 6 3 To Specify Parents You can specify Active Person s parents in the Relationship View Figure 2 6 Relationships View A little care is required to prevent the creation of duplicate families If you wish to add the Active Person to an already existing family you should click the Select button If the family including the parents does not already exist you should click the Add button If you click on the Select button you are presented with the Select Family dialog This will allow you to select the existing family and then the Active Person will be added as a child to the family 24 3 6 3 To Speci
76. e values can be used for Given name Family name Suffix and the Title The rule returns a match if and only if all non empty values are partially matched by a person s name To use just one value leave the other values empty This rule matches any person with a specified GRAMPS ID The rule returns a match only if the ID is matched exactly You can either enter the ID into a text entry field or select a person from the list by clicking Select button In the latter case the ID will appear in the text field after the selection was made This rule matches the default home person This rule matches people whose records are marked as private This rule matches any female person This rule matches people with images in their galleries This rule matches people missing birth date This rule matches any male person 87 C 2 Event filters C 2 Event filters This category includes the following rules that match people based on their recorded events Has the birth Has the death Has source of Has the personal event Has the family event Witness People with incomplete events Families with incomplete events This rule matches people whose birth event matches specified values for Date Place and Description The rule returns a match even if the person s birth event matches the value partially The matching rules are case insensitive For exam ple anyone born in Sweden will be matched by the rule using
77. ect org gt The somewhat incomplete list of contributors includes in alphabetical order e Tim Allen e Larry Allingham e Jens Arvidsson e Kees Bakker e Marcos Bedinelli e Wayne Bergeron e Stefan Bjork e Douglas S Blank e Radu Bogdan Mare e Alexander Bogdashevsky e Richard Bos e Matt Brubeck e Nathan Bullock e Lorenzo Cappelletti e Pier Luigi Cinquantini e Bruce J DeGrasse e Daniel Durand e Alexandre Duret Lutz e Billy C Earney e Baruch Even e Bernd Felsche e Egyeki Gergely e Michel Guitel e Steve Hall e David R Hampton e Martin Hawlisch e Arpad Horvath e Anton Huber e Frode Jemtland e Mark Knoop e Greg Kuperberg e Arkadiusz Lipiec e Lars Kr Lundin e Radek Malcic e Benny Malengier e Leonid Mamtchenkov e Brian Matherly e Tino Meinen e Serge Noiraud e Frederick Noronha e Jeffrey C Ollie e Jiri Pejchal e Donald A Peterson e Guillaume Pratte e Alexandre Prokoudine e Laurent Protois e Matthieu Pupat e J r me Rapinat e Trevor Rhodes e Alexander Roitman e Soren Roug e Jason Salaz e Julio Sanchez e Bernd Schandl e Martin Senftleben e Yaakov Selkowitz 100 e Gary Shao e Arturas Sleinius e Jim Smart e Steve Swales e Eero Tamminen e Samuel Tardieu e Richard Taylor e James Treacy e Lubo Vasko e Sebastian Voecking e Xing Wang e Tim Waugh e Jesper Zedlitz If you know of somebody else who should be listed here please let us know
78. een SD 42 Pedigree Aberdeen WA Ada OK y Events les Adjuntas PR Sources Adrian MI gt Remove Google Maps ID Church Parish County P1643 P1131 P1366 P1293 P0861 P0962 P1130 P1325 P0970 P1446 P1085 P1260 P0866 P1398 P0960 DnaaA 2 1 9 Media View The Media View is a list of Media Objects used in the database Media Objects are any files that relate somehow to the stored genealogical data Technically any file can be stored as a Media Object Most frequently these are images audio files animation files etc The list box on the bottom lists the Name ID Type and Path of the Media Object The Column Editor dialog may be used to rearrange the displayed columns which obey usual sorting rules The top part of the GRAMPS window shows a preview if available and information about the Media Object Figure 2 15 Media View UT Country file Edit wew Bookmarks Reports Tools Help GH 8 a New Open ScratchPad Reports Tools Add People amp Relationships dy Family List Ped TSH e Tele contains El End Clear E Events Title ID Type Path Date as 1897_expeditionsmannscha 00010 image jpeg home dona gramps svnjex Places 654px Aksel_Andersson 00008 image jpeg Jhomejdona gramps swyex lt Media Alimehemet 00006 image jpeg Jhomejdona gramps swyex AntoineClaudet 00011 image png Ihomejdona gramps suniex O imagefpeg omerdanalgrampsamen Yawn 00009 imag
79. end file names with appropriate f options To record the database resulting from all imports supply o flag use f if the filename does not al low GRAMPS to guess the format To save any error messages of the above example into files out file and errfile run To import three databases and start interactive GRAMPS session with the result To open a database and based on that data generate timeline report gramps ifilel ged i file2 gpkg i db3 gramps i file4 wft acheck gramps i filel ged f gedcom i file2 gpkg f gramps pkg i db3 gramps f gramps xml i file4 wft f wft a check gramps i filel ged i file2 gpkg 0 new package f gramps pkg gramps i filel ged i file2 dpkg 0 new package f gramps pkg gt outfile 2 gt errfile gramps i file1 ged i file2 gpkg i db3 gramps gramps O file grdb a report p name timeline off pdf of my_timeline pdf 96 D 3 Examples in PDF format putting the output into the my_timeline paf file Finally to start normal interactive session type Q gramps Tip Use the name timeline show all to find out about all available options for the timeline report To find out de tails of a particular option use show option_name e g name timeline show 0ff string To learn about available report names use name show string 97 98 Appendix E About GRAMPS GRAMPS was written by Donald N Allingham lt don gramps proj
80. ents or more than one set of spouses exists for the Active Person Selecting this button will display a dialog that will allow you to reorder the families Figure 2 7 Relationship Reordering Window Reorder Relationships GRAMPS Parent relationships Father Mother Garner Robert W Zieli ski Phoebe Emily Family relationships Spouse Relationship 2 8 Martel Luella Jacques Married X Cancel ox 2 1 4 Family List View The Family List View displays a list of all families in the database From this view you may add edit or delete families The default display lists the ID Father Mother and Relationship Children cannot be displayed on the screen in this view 2 1 5 Pedigree View Figure 2 8 Family List View file Edit View Bookmarks Reports Tools Help O si A New Open ScratchPad Reports Tools Add Edt Remove o People ID contains z a a Father Mother Relationship Warner Allen Carl Garner Rita Mane Married 42 Pedigree F10 Ball jasper Jbikos Angeline Married 3 Events F100 Bell Gary Richard Cruz Judy Denise Married F101 Krawczyk Douglas Cruz Patti jo Married F102 Poulsen Randall Lee Welch Lisa Dawn Married Places F103 Blake Conrad Ruiz Catherine Married amp Media F104 Cunningham William Philip Park Susannah Married Rosie F105 Blake George Cunningham Sally Sarah Married F106 Jim nez George Henry Jr Silva Mildre
81. erence This appendix provides the reference to the command line capabilities available when launching GRAMPS from the terminal Note GRAMPS was designed to be an interactive program Therefore it uses graphical display and cannot run from the true non graphical console It would take an enormous amount of effort to enable it to run in a text only terminal This is why the set of command line options does not aim to completely get rid of dependency on the graphical display Rather it merely makes certain typical tasks more convenient It also allows one to execute these tasks from the scripts However the graphical display must be accessible at all times Q Tip To summarize the use of the command line options provides non interactive behavior but does not get rid of graphical display dependency Take it or leave it D 1 Available options This section provides the reference list of all command line options available in GRAMPS If you want to know more than just a list of options see next sections Section D 2 Operation and Section D 3 Examples D 1 1 Format options The format of any file destined for opening importing or exporting can be specified with the f format option The acceptable format values are listed below grdb GRAMPS database This format is available for opening import and export When not specified it can be guessed if the filename ends with grdb gramps xml GRAMPS XML database This format
82. erson dialog Associations Preferred name image family Gamer Prefix 4 Given Lewis Anderson Call Name Title Suffix Type Birth Name General Gender male i D 144 Marker a Events Names gt Sources _ Attributes Addresses 4 Note a Gallery Internet Associations LOS Name i 1D Association de Adkins John 1553 Godfather Help X Cancel Jar LDS The LDS Latter Days Saints tab lets you view and edit information about LDS ordinances of the person These are LDS Baptism Endowment and Sealed to Parents ordinances as labeled inside the tab Each ordinance is described by its date LDS temple and Place where it happened An additional pop up menu Parents is available for the Sealed to Parents ordinance Each ordinance can be further described through the selections available in the Status pop up menu It can also be include notes and references to sources through the corre sponding Sources and Note buttons 36 3 7 2 Editing Dates Figure 3 17 Edit Person dialog LDS Preferred name image family Gamer Prefix B Given Lewis Anderson Call Name Title Suffix Type Birth Name General Gender male gt ID 144 Marker X t Events Jl Names gt Sources Attributes Addresses 4 Note amp Gallery Internet Associations LDS Type Date Status Temple Place d
83. es For example attributes might be assigned to describe the person s physical characteristics or personality traits Note that each attribute listed in the Attribute dialog consists of two parts the Attribute itself and a Value associated with that Attribute This so called Parameter Value pairing can help you organize and systematize your research For example if you define Hair color as an Attribute for a person Hair Color will become a selectable Attribute for all other people The Value of Hair Color for person A might be red and brown for person B In similar fashion you might define an Attribute like Generosity and use the Value of Enormous to describe a particularly generous person The bottom part of the dialog window displays the list of all Attributes stored in the database The top part shows the details of the currently selected attribute in the list if any The buttons Edit and let you add modify and remove an attribute record from the database Note that the Edit and buttons become available only when an attribute is selected from the list 30 3 7 1 Editing Infor mation About People Addresses Figure 3 10 Edit Person dialog Attributes Edit Person GRAMPS Preferred name family Gamer Prefix Given Lewis Anderson Call Name Title Suffix Type Birth Name General Gender male s ID 144 Marker X t PP a Events Names gt Sources
84. es made in all tabs and close the dialog window Clicking the Cancel button at any time will close the window without applying any changes 54 3 7 12 Merging records Q Tip The tab labels reflect the presence of corresponding information if the tab contains any data its label appears boldface if the tab has no data then its label appears regular not bold The tabs provide the following information categories of the address data General Sources Note The General tab allows editing of the most general information about the address date street address city or county state or province country the postal code and the phone number The information can be typed in the appropriate text entry fields Check the Private record box to mark this address record as private This will give you a chance to omit this address from being included in reports if you choose so among the report generation options The Sources tab displays information about sources relevant to this address and controls allowing its modification The central part displays the list of all such sources references stored in the database The buttons Edit and allow you to correspondingly add modify and remove a source reference to this address Note that the Edit and buttons become available only when a source reference is selected from the list The Note tab displays any notes concerning the address To add a note or modify existing notes si
85. eweb and gramps pkg the filename is the name of the resulting file Q Tip More than one file can be exported in one command If this is the case GRAMPS will attempt to write several files using the data from the database available at the moment When more than one output file is given each has to be preceded by o flag The files are written one by one in the specified order 94 D 1 5 Action options D 1 5 Action options The action to perform on the imported data can be specified with the a action or action action option This 1s done after all imports are successfully completed Currently available actions are summary This action is the same as Reports gt View gt Summary check This action is the same as Tools gt Database Processing gt Check and Repair report This action allows producing reports from the command line As reports generally have many options of their own this action should be followed by the report option string The string is given using the p option _stringor options option_string option Q Tip The report option string should satisfy the following conditions e It must not contain any spaces If some arguments need to include spaces the string should be enclosed with quotation marks e Option string must list pairs of option names and values e Within a pair option name and value must be separated by the equal sign e Different pairs must be separated by commas Most of the report optio
86. f them as we proceed The simplest way to enter a person to add them from the People View While you are in the People View Figure 2 2 Sidebar Viewing Mode click the Add on the toolbar Enter any data you know about this person into the Edit Person dialog see Figure 3 8 Edit Person dialog for details To edit information about a person already present in the database select the person from the People View and click the Edit button on the toolbar Alternate ways of adding or editing a person from the People View You can also use Add and Edit menu items available under Edit Or you can right click on the person and select Add or Edit from the context menu that pops up 22 3 6 2 To Specify a Relationship People can also be added to the database in the Relationships View Edit Family dialog and other places where it makes sense 3 6 2 To Specify a Relationship There are two primary ways to specify relationships between people using the Relationships View and using the Edit Family dialog from the Family List View The Family List is usually used to build all the relationships within a single family at a time The Relationships View is usually used to build multiple relationships to a single person To specify a new relationship to the Active Person switch to the Relationships View Figure 2 6 Relationships View and you ll see this individual indicated as the Active Person Next to the Fami
87. filename 3 2 Opening a Database To open a database either choose File gt Open or click the Open button on the Toolbar The Open database dialog will appear and you ll see a list of files If you don t see the file you re looking for make sure the All files filter is selected This dialog has a filetype filter meaning it may only be showing files that have a certain extension To open a recently accessed database choose either File gt Open Recent or the down arrow next to the Open button and select the filename from the list If you do not have write permissions for the selected database it will be opened in a Read Only mode In this mode the data may be viewed but no changes will be made to the database To indicate this mode the title of the main window will be appended with Read Only text GRAMPS allows you to open certain databases that have not been saved in GRAMPS own file format These include XML and GEDCOM databases But you should be aware that if the XML or GEDCOM database is relatively large you may encounter some performance problems These can be avoided by creating a new GRAMPS database and importing your XML GEDCOM data into it Opening XML and GEDCOM databases XML and GEDCOM databases require all data to be held in memory GRAMPS native grdb format does not Thus a database with a grdb format can access data quicker and more efficiently Q GEDCOM Editing Please keep in mind that some information in
88. fy Parents Figure 3 5 Selecting a family Select Family ID Father Mother Fl Wamer AllenCal Gamer Rita Marie F10 Ball jasper 361K0B Angeline F100 Bell Gary Richard Cruz Judy Denise F101 Krawczyk Douglas Cruz Patti Jo F102 Poulsen Randall Lee Welch Lisa Dawn F103 Blake Conrad Ruiz Catherine F104 Cunningham William Philip Park Susannah F105 Blake George Cunningham Sally Sarah F106 Jim nez George Henry Jr Silva Mildred F107 Douglas Abraham Alvarado Nancy F108 Alvarado Col Charles Parent Eleanor F109 Parent Capt Jacob C James Jane F11 Warner Martin Bogarte Page Clara Belle 5110 armas Thamar Cr Danean Martha clian na X Cancel Pox If you click on the Add button a new Edit Family dialog is presented with the Active Person listed a child of the new family You can add the parents to the family by either adding new people as the parents or selecting existing people as the parents Q Warning If you create a new family and select parents that are already in an existing family GRAMPS will issue a warning message If you proceed by saving the new famiy you will have a duplicate family Figure 3 6 Duplicate family warning Duplicate Family A family with these parents already exists in the database If you save you will create a duplicate family It is recommended that you cancel the editing of this window and select the existing family You can also specify the
89. ge Sources Source 1 Source 2 Birth Certificate O Title Birth Records Author O Author Abbreviation O Abbreviation Publication O Publication GRAMPS ID S1 O GRAMPS ID S2 Help X Cancel 9 ox The dialog allows you to make a decision on whether or not the selected records should be merged If you decide that the records should not be merged despite similar titles you may click Cancel to close the dialog without making any changes If you decide to proceed with merging choose the appropriate radio button to specify the title author abbreviated title publication information and the ID to be used for the merged record then click OK 3 7 12 3 Merge Places When exactly two places are selected choose Edit gt Compare and Merge to invoke Select title dialog 57 3 8 Navigation Figure 3 31 Merge Places dialog Merge Places GRAMPS x Merge Places Title selection el Ronne Bornholm Denmark O Place 2 Ronne Bornholm Denmark O Other Ronne Bornholm Denmark Help X Cancel 4 ok The dialog allows you to make a decision on whether or not the selected records should be merged If you decide that the records should not be merged despite similar titles you may click Cancel to close the dialog without making any changes If you decide to proceed with merging choose the appropriate r
90. generation of the family tree Also you can jump directly from a great grandson to a great grandfather without going through the intermediate generations Note that after changing the Active Person in the Pedigree View the display is re adjusted to show up to five genera tions starting from the newly selected Active Person When in the Pedigree View you can easily navigate between the members of the displayed family tree as follows e To make any displayed person the Active Person right click the corresponding box and choose the first entry in the context menu e To make a child of the currently Active Person if any the Active Person click the left arrow button to the left of the corresponding box If there is more than one child the button expands to the menu listing the children to choose from e To move the whole family tree one generation back click on the corresponding right arrow button on the right hand side of the display area Clicking the upper button will move the tree along the paternal line Clicking the lower button will move the tree along the maternal line Clicking either of these buttons is completely equivalent to double clicking the lines connecting to the left of the corresponding boxes for father and mother You can also quickly access any of the spouses siblings children or parents of any displayed person To do this move the mouse over the desired person s box and right click to invoke a context menu The
91. h a particular relationship The relationship must match the type selected from the menu Optionally the number of relationships and the number of children can be specified The rule returns a match if and only if all non empty values are partially matched by a person s relationship To use just one value leave the other values empty This rule matches people married to someone who is matched by the specified filter The specified filter name should be selected from the menu This rule matches people for whom either parent is matched by the specified filter The specified filter name should be selected from the menu This rule matches people whose child is matched by the specified filter The specified filter name should be selected from the menu This rule matches people whose sibling is matched by the specified filter The specified filter name should be selected from the menu C 4 Ancestral filters This category includes the following rules that match people based on their ancestral relations to other people Is an ancestor of Is an ancestor of person at least N generations away Is an ancestor of person not more than N generations away Has a common ancestor with Has a common ancestor with filter match This rule matches people who are ancestors of the specified person The Inclu sive option determines whether the specified person should be considered his her own ancestor useful for building reports You can e
92. her and mother are not mixed up The check is also made that parents have different gender If they have common gender then their relationship is renamed to Partners This tool searches the entire database and attempts to extract titles and nick names that may be embedded in a person s Given name field If any information could be extracted the candidates for fixing will be presented in the table You may then decide which to repair as suggested and which not to This tool searches the entire database looking for the entries that may represent the same person This tool searches the entire database and attempts to fix the capitalization of family names The aim is to have conventional capitalization capital first letter and lower case for the rest of the family name If deviations from this rule are detected the candidates for fixing will be presented in the table You may then decide which to repair as suggested and which not to This tool allows all the events of a certain name to be renamed to a new name This tool reorders the GRAMPS IDs according to the defaults of GRAMPS This section contains tools allowing you to perform a simple operation on a portion of data The results can be saved in your database but they will not modify your existing data The following utilities are currently available in GRAMPS 69 3 10 3 Utilities 3 10 3 1 Custom Filter Editor The Custom Filter Editor builds custom filters that can be
93. iew or edit the information it contains The bottom part has OK and Cancel buttons Clicking the OK button at any time will apply all the changes made in all tabs and close the dialog window Clicking the Cancel button at any time will close the window without applying any changes If any of the data in any tab is modified an alert window will appear that will prompt you choose between closing the dialog without saving changes canceling the initial cancel request or saving the changes 40 3 7 3 Editing Informa tion About Relationships Q Note Clicking OK will immediately save changes to the database This version of GRAMPS does not have a separate saving function all changes are immediate Tip If a tab label is in boldface type this means it contains data If not it has no data The Relationship Information section fields have the basic desciption of the relationship The GRAMPS ID field dis plays the ID number which labels this relationship in the database The available types such as Married Unmarried etc can be chosen from the drop down Relationship type menu The Marker allows you to specify some basic infor mation on the status of your research The tabs provide the following information categories of relationship data Children Events Sources The Children tab lets you view and edit the list of children in this relationship The button allows entering a new person to the database and adding that perso
94. ing the Cancel button will close the window without applying any changes Note Clicking OK will immediately save changes to the database All changes are immediate Q Tip If a tab label is in boldface type and displays an icon this means it contains data If not it has no data The tabs represent following categories of place data General The General tab you view and edit the basic information about the place the Title which labels it in the database City Church parish County State Country Longitude and Latitude You can type this information directly into the adjacent fields Other names The Other names tab lets you view and edit other names by which the place might be known The bottom part of the window lists all other names of the place stored in the database The top part 45 3 7 6 Editing Informa tion About Media Objects of the window shows the details of the currently selected name in the list if any The buttons Edit and let you add modify and remove a name record Note that the Edit and buttons become available only when a name is selected from the list Note The Note tab displays any comments or notes concerning the place To add a note or modify existing notes simply edit the text in the text entry field Sources Gallery Internet References The Sources tab lets you view and edit sources relevant to a place The central part of the window lists all
95. ither enter the ID into a text entry field or select a person from the list by clicking Select button In the latter case the ID will appear in the text field after the selection was made This rule matches people who are ancestors of the specified person and are at least N generations away from that person in their lineage For example using this rule with the value of 2 for the number of generations will match grandpar ents great grandparents etc but not the parents of the specified person This rule matches people who are ancestors of the specified person and are no more than N generations away from that person in their lineage For example using this rule with the value of 2 for the number of generations will match par ents and grandparents but not great grandparents etc of the specified person This rule matches people who have common ancestors with the specified per son This rule matches people who have common ancestors with someone who is matched by the specified filter The specified filter name should be selected from the menu 89 C 5 Descendant filters Is an ancestor of filter match This rule matches people who are ancestors of someone who is matched by the specified filter The specified filter name should be selected from the menu C 5 Descendant filters This category includes the following rules that match people based on their descendant relations to other people Is a descendant of This rule m
96. lace switch to the Media View Figure 2 15 Media View Then click the Add icon on the toolbar to add an image If you have already added any images to any individual galleries you will also find them listed in the Media View Alternate way of adding images to galleries An image can always be added to any gallery by using drag and drop Items can be dragged from the Media View any gallery the desktop the file manager or a web browser and dropped on the target gallery adding the image to the gallery In any gallery you can also use the Edit to edit image information and the button and to remove the image reference from that gallery Removing an image from a gallery Removing a media object from a gallery does not remove the image from the database To completely remove the image from the database delete it from Media View by first selecting it and then clicking the Remove icon on the toolbar 3 6 6 To Edit Events Sources Places and Repositories To add an event a source a place or a repository to the database switch to the appropriate Events View Figure 2 12 Events View Sources View Figure 2 13 Sources View Places View Figure 2 14 Places View or Repos itories View Figure 2 16 Repositories View Then click the Add icon on the toolbar to add the corresponding object Enter the information into the Event Editor Source Editor Place Editor or Repository Editor dialog To edit inform
97. laces View lists the geographical places in which the events of the database took place These could be places of birth death and marriages of people as well as their home employment education addresses or any other conceivable reference to the geographical location The Places View lists the places Name ID Church Parish City County State and Country All of these columns can be used for sorting by clicking on a column heading Clicking once sorts in ascending order clicking again sorts in descending order The Column Editor dialog may be used to add remove and rearrange the displayed columns If a place has been highlighted you may select the Google Maps button to attempt to display the place in a web browser Your default web browser should open attempting to use either the longitude and lattitude coordinates or the place name to display the location using the Google Maps web site This feature is limited and may not always produce the results you desire 14 2 1 9 Media View Figure 2 14 Places View file Edit View Bookmarks Reports Jools Help 6 0 B 2 F Aguadilla PR amp Media Akron OH Ze mesciores Alamogordo NM Albany GA Albany NY Albany OR Albert Lea MN Albertville AL Albuquerque NM Alexandria LA Alavandria_mn 144 Gamer Lewis Anderson New Open ScratchPad Reports Tools ery People Place Name contains gt Relationships gt et Place Name Family List Aberd
98. lays Internet addresses relevant to the person The bottom part lists all such Inter net addresses and accompanying descriptions The top part shows the details of the currently selected addresses in the list if any The buttons Edit and let you add modify and remove an Internet address The Go button represented by an icon having a green arrow and yellow circle opens your web browser and takes you directly to the highlighted page Note that the Edit and Go buttons become available only when an address is selected from the list 34 3 7 1 Editing Infor mation About People Associations Figure 3 15 Edit Person dialog Internet Edit Person GRAMPS Preferred name Family Gamer Given Lewis Anderson Title To Suffix General Gender mae sl 144 Prefix Call Name Type Marker Birth Name DO gt image ta Type Path Description web Horne http www gramps project o GRAMPS home page Events Names la Sources Attributes Addresses la Note Gallery 2 internet Associations LDS coc mei The Associations tab lets you view and edit information about the associations between people in the database The associations may include Godparents family friends or any other types of associations you may wish to record 35 3 7 1 Editing Infor mation About People Figure 3 16 Edit P
99. lays the list of media objects in the database Repositories View Displays the list of repositories in the database Before we launch into a description of each View let s first explain how to switch between Views 2 1 1 Switching Views and Viewing Modes As mentioned above there are nine different Views In addition there are two different Viewing Modes You can tell at a glance which Viewing Mode you are in If you see icons listed vertically in a sidebar at the left of the window you are in the Sidebar Viewing Mode If instead you see a series of notebook tabs labeled People Relationships Family List Pedigree Events Sources Places Media and Repositories that run horizontally across the window then you are in the Tabbed Viewing Mode You can switch from one Viewing Mode to another by selecting View gt Sidebar from the Sidebar menu item If you re in the Sidebar Viewing Mode you can select the View you want by clicking one of the sidebar icons Figure 2 2 Sidebar Viewing Mode file Edit View Go Bookmarks feports Jools Help SB O QQ 3 AQ New Open Back Forward Home ScratchPad Reports Tools Add Edit Remove People Name contains gt y Emd amp Relationships Name o Gender Birth Date Death Date amp Family List Garner Jennie S 1625 female 9 11 1880 6 20 1964 42 Pedigree Garner jesse V 1623 male 6 18 1876 1 21 1929 E Events Gamer john joseph 1186 male 8 15 1961 Gamer John Roger 1136 male 10 2
100. ly label is a Add button typically represented by a sign Clicking the Add button will display the Edit Family dialog with the Active Person set as either the father or the mother Figure 3 3 Editing a family Family Editor GHAMPS x Family Editor Father Mother E d Name Garner Lewis Anderson 144 2 Birth June 21 1855 Birth Death june 28 1911 Death Relationship Information ID Type Married Marker ES Children Events Sources Attributes Note Gallery LOS ID Name Gender Paternal Maternal Birth Date db Que X Cancel YH ok Now a question Does the person who will form the relationship with the Active Person already exist in the database If yes click the Select button to the other person You ll then be able to browse through the list of people in the database to select the one you want If not click the Add button This will allow you to add a new person to the database and to specify the relationship this person has to the Active Person 23 3 6 3 To Specify Parents Figure 3 4 Selecting a person Select Mother GRAMPS X Select Mother Name ID Birth date b Abbott b Adams b Adkins b Aguilar v Alexander Alexander Mary 1693 b Allen Y Alonso Alonso Roisine 1826 1985 gt Alvarado b Alvarez Ih a L 7 Show all X Cancel Dax Filtering By default GRAMPS filters the displayed list to show only thos
101. mily section which displays families where the Active Person is a parent Because it is possible to have multiple familes it is possible to have multiple Family sections Each family section displays the spouse and any children Note We use the term spouse for sake of simplicity However please note that spouse may in fact be a domestic partner a partner in a civil union or various other similar relationships between two people Spouse relationships are not required to be only between a male and female You may add a family by selecting the Add Spouse in the toolbar This will create a new family with the Active Person listed as a father or mother Selecting the Edit button next to the spouse will allow you to edit the displayed family Clicking the Delete button will remove the person from the displayed family e Warning Removing a person from a family does not delete the family The person is removed as the father or mother and any other relationships in the family continue to exist 2 1 4 Family List View Note We use the terms father and mother for the sake of simplicity Even if there are no children in a family the father and mother terminology is still used In the case of male male or female female relationships the father and mother labels should be considered to be convenience labels You can reorder the parents and spouses by selecting the Reorder This option will only be enabled if more than one set of par
102. mply edit the text in the text entry field The Format option allows you to set the appearance of the note in the output i e in reports and web pages Selecting Flowed will replace all multiple spaces tabs and single end of line characters with single space in the output The two consecutive new lines i e an empty line denote a new paragraph Selecting Preformatted will honor all multiple spaces tabs and new lines so that the output will appear as it is entered into the text entry field 3 7 12 Merging records Sometime several records in the database turn out to be describing the same object same person same place or same source It could happen either when the data is entered twice by mistake or when new information reveals that the two entries refer to the same person It can also happen after importing GEDCOM obtained from a relative whose database overlaps with your existing data Whenever you detect duplicate records merging them a useful way of correcting the situation Q Tip To make a merge exactly two records have to be selected in the appropriate view People View Sources View or Places View This is accomplished by selecting one entry and then selecting another person while holding down Ctrl key 3 7 12 1 Merge People There are two ways of merging personal records Compare and Merge and Fast Merge both available from the Edit menu Note Merging people does not discard any information with either me
103. n as a child in this relationship The Select button lets you select an existing person to be a child in the relationship The Edit button allows for editing the relations between the selected child and the parents Finally the lets you remove the selected child from the relationship Note that the Edit and buttons become available only when a child is selected from the list Note Removing a child from the list does not delete that child from the database It simply removes the child from this relationship The Events tab lets you view and edit the list of events relevant to the relationship The buttons Edit and let you add modify or remove an event record from the database Note that the Edit and buttons become available only when an event is selected from the list Note Removing an event from the list does not delete that event from the database It simply removes the event reference from this relationship The Sources tab lets you view and edit a list of references to the sources that provide evidence for the relationship These might be documents that refer to the relationship but which do not necessarily document it officially For example if Aunt Martha s memoirs mention that her great grandson Paul was married the researcher may take this as evidence of the relationship between Paul and his wife existed and cite the memoirs as the source for this assumption P Sources that document specific events such as marriage
104. n disabled 4 1 6 Researcher Information Enter your personal information in the corresponding text entry fields Although GRAMPS requests information about you this information is used only so that GRAMPS can create valid GEDCOM output files A valid GEDCOM file requires information about the file s creator If you choose you may leave the information empty however none of your exported GEDCOM files will be valid 4 1 7 Marker Colors This category controls the highlight color of items in the Person list when a marker has been set for a person 4 2 Other settings Besides Preferences dialog there are other settings available in GRAMPS For various reasons they have been made more readily accessible as listed below Column Editor The columns of the list views may be added removed or reordered in a Column Editor Dialog see Figure 2 4 Column Editor Dialog Only checked columns will be shown in the view To change their order drag any column to its desired place inside the editor Clicking OK will reflect the changes in the appropriate view To invoke Column Editor Dialog choose Edit gt Column Editor 78 4 3 Advanced ma nipulation of settings Q Tip The Column Editor is available and works in the same way for all list views Specifically it is available for People View Fam ily View children list Sources View Places View and Media View Setting Home person The Home person is the person who becomes a
105. name patronymic a form of father s name used in some languages e g Russian family prefix suffix title and type of the name The information can be typed in the appropriate text entry fields The family name and the type can be also selected from available choices listed in the appropriate drop down menus Options allow you to adjust specific grouping sorting and displaying properties of this name as well as to provide the date corresponding to the name The Grouping field provides an alternative grouping node for a given name overriding the default grouping based on the family name This may be necessary with similar family names that need to be grouped together for example Russian names Ivanov and Ivanova are considered the same but difference in gender is reflected in different spelling To enable typing into this field check the Override check button The Sort as and Display as determine the manner in which the name appears in the People View and in the reports The Date can provide information on the validity of this name use spans as necessary Check the Private record box to mark this name record as private This will give you a chance to omit this name from being included in reports if you choose so among the report generation options The Sources tab displays information about sources relevant to this name and controls allowing its mod ification The central part displays the list of all such sources references stored in the
106. ne Select GRAMPS from the list of programs displayed in your computer s Applica tions menu The location and appearance of this menu vary slightly from one dis tribution of Linux to another On the default GNOME desktop you ll find GRAMPS in the Applications gt Other menu If you re adept with Linux and like to work from the command line you can start GRAMPS by calling up a terminal window typing gramps and then pressing En ter If you would like GRAMPS to open a specific database or to import a specific file on startup you can supply the filename as a command line argument gramps filename grdb where filename grab is the name of the file you want to open The command line provides many more ways to start GRAMPS and perform different tasks 1 2 Choosing a database If GRAMPS is started without a database selected the initial screen will have little functionality Most operations will not be available To load a database select either New to create a new database or Open to open an existing database GRAMPS keeps track of your recently opened databases and these can be selected by clicking on the arrow next to the Open button and choosing from the drop down menu 1 3 Obtaining Help Figure 1 1 Initial Window Ele Edit View Help New Open amp People Name contains amp Relationships Family List 42 Pedigree Name E Events gt Sources Places amp Media Pepositories y End
107. nerations to consider This report creates a descendant report similar to that produced by the Fami ly Tree Maker tm program It covers in detail the Active Person and his her descendants It includes vital information as well as marriages children and notes Specific options number of forward generations to consider This creates a family group report showing information on a set of parents and their children Specific options the spouse available only if the Active Person has more than one spouse This report produces a detailed summary on the active person The report in cludes all the facts known to the database about that person Common options for text reports are the filename of the output the format of the output selected style page size and orientation For HTML reports there is no page information Instead HTML options include the choice of the HTML template either available in GRAMPS or a custom template defined by you Optionally the reports can be immediately opened with the default application 65 3 9 6 View Reports The options used in reports are persistent each report remembers its options used last time 3 9 6 View Reports View reports are representing overall summaries of the database information available immediately for on screen viewing The following view reports are currently available in GRAMPS Number of ancestors Summary of the database 3 9 7 Web Page This report displ
108. ng characters are Character Name Character Name Hof Given Name F GIVEN NAME l Surname L SURNAME t Title T TITLE op Prefix JP PREFIX Ps Suffix S SUFFIX Callmame C CALLNAME y Patronymic Y PATRONYMIC Example Shows a dynamic example how the name will be displayed with the current Format definition string 77 4 1 4 ID Formats Format definition details Shows a quick reminder of the special formatting characters 4 1 4 ID Formats This category contains preferences relevant to the automatic generation of GRAMPS IDs Q Tip The ID prefixes use formatting conventions common for C Python and other programming languages For example the 04d expands to an integer prepended with zeros to have the total width of four digits If you would like IDs to be 1 2 3 etc simply set the formatting parameter to d Person Provides the template for generating IDs for a Person Family Provides the template for generating IDs for a Family Place Provides the template for generating IDs for a Place Source Provides the template for generating IDs for a Source Media Object Provides the template for generating IDs for a Media Object Event Provides the template for generating IDs for an Event Repository Provides the template for generating IDs for a Repository 4 1 5 Warnings This category controls the display of warning dialogs allowing the re enabling of dialogs that have bee
109. ninate resource leveling methods of empowerment to set us apart from the competition We envision to globally integrate inexpensive paradigms and professionally engineer timely technology while promoting personal employee growth Our mission is to assertively build world class methods of empowerment so that we may professionally promote parallel services to set us apart from the competition It s our responsibility to dramatically maintain value added services as well as to professionally simplify principle centered technology for 100 customer satisfaction Thanks to the Mission Statement Generator from http www dilbert com 32 3 7 1 Editing Infor mation About People The Notes tab provides a place to record various items about the person that do not fit neatly into other categories To add a note or modify existing notes simply edit the text in the text entry field The Format option lets you set the way the note will appear in reports and web pages If you select Flowed the text generated will have single spaces put in place of all multiple spaces tabs and single end of line characters A blank line inserted between two blocks of text will signal a new paragraph additional inserted lines will be ignored If you select the Preformatted option the text in reports and web pages will appear exactly as you enter it in the Notes dialog Sources Figure 3 13 Edit Person dialog Sources Edit Person GRAMPS x Preferre
110. ns are specific for every report However there some common options name report_name This mandatory option determines which report will be generated If the sup plied report_name does not correspond to any available report the error mes sage will be printed followed by the list of available reports show all This will produce the list of names for all options available for a given report show option_name This will print the description of the functionality supplied by the option_name as well as what are the acceptable types and values for this option Use the above options to find out everything about a given report Q Tip If an option is not supplied the last used value will be used If this report has never been generated before then the value from last generated report will be used when applicable Otherwise the default value will be used When more than one output action is given each has to be preceded by a flag The actions are performed one by one in the specified order D 2 Operation e If the first argument on the command line does not start with dash i e no flag GRAMPS will attempt to open the file with the name given by the first argument and start interactive session ignoring the rest of the command line arguments 95 D 3 Examples If the O flag is given then GRAMPS will try opening the supplied file name and then work with that data as instructed by the further command line parameters Note
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112. ntain a source reference to the imported file Note Adding a default source can significantly slow down the importing your data Enable spelling checker This option controls the enabling and disabling of the spelling checker for notes The gtkspell package must be loaded for this to have an effect Display Tip of the Day This option controls the enabling and disabling of the Tip of the Day dialog at startup 75 4 1 2 Display Use shading in Relationship View This option controls the enabling and disabling of shading in the Relationship View If enabled information will be grouped together in regions with a shaded background Enable database transactions This option controls the enabling and disabling of transactions during database operations O Warning Care must be taken with selecting this option By default transac tions are enabled This improves database performance and pro tects database integrity However if your system is using a ver sion of the Python language prior to version 2 5 your database will not be portable to other machines and if you want to transfer your data to another machine you will need to export using the GRAMPS XML format Disabling this option will allow databas es to be portable but at a risk of database integrity problems 4 1 2 Display This category contains preferences relevant to the display of data Options are Date format This option controls the display of dates Several
113. odify and remove an event record from the database Note that the Edit and buttons become available only when an event is selected from the list Names The Names tab lets you view and edit any alternate names the person may have The bottom part of the window lists all alternate names for the person stored in the database The top part shows the details of the currently selected name in the list if any The buttons Edit and allow the addition modification and removal of an alternate name from the database Note that the Edit and buttons become available only when an alternate name is selected from the list 29 3 7 1 Editing Infor mation About People Figure 3 9 Edit Person dialog Names Edit Person GRAMPS x Preferred name Image family Gamer Prefix 4 Given Lewis Anderson Call Name Title Suffix Type Birth Name gt General Gender male gt ID 144 Marker bb Events Names Sources Attributes Addresses Note amp Gallery Internet Associations LDS Name Type db Gamer Louis Also Known As Gamer Louie Other Name Heip X Cancel Hor When you add a new name or edit an existing name the Name Editor dialog is invoked This dialog is described in the section below see Section 3 7 9 Names Attributes The Attributes tab lets you view and assign attributes to the person You have complete freedom to define and use attribut
114. on information Note Gallery Data 42 Repositories References The repository reference from the source is important Flowed Formatted Help The main part of the window displays four notebook tabs containing different categories of information Click a tab to view or edit its contents The bottom part of the window has OK and Cancel buttons Clicking OK will apply all the changes made in all tabs and close the dialog window Clicking the Cancel button will close the window without applying any changes g Note Clicking OK will immediately save changes to the database write on disk All changes are immediate Q Tip If a tab label is in boldface type this means it contains data If not it has no data The general information at the top of the window lets you define basic information about the source its Title Author Abbreviation and Publication information You can type this information directly into the adjacent fields The tabs provide the following information categories of source data Note The Note tab provides a place to record various information about the source that does not fit neatly into other categories To add a note or modify existing notes simply edit the text in the text entry field Gallery The Gallery tab lets you store and display photos and other media objects associated with a given source for example a photo of a birth certificate The central part of the
115. ontinue referring to the latter as the Edit button while using and to denote the two former buttons 27 3 7 1 Editing Infor mation About People 3 7 1 Editing Information About People Information about people is entered and edited through the Edit Person dialog This dialog can be invoked from dif ferent Views in the following ways From the People View e Double click the name of the person whose data you would like to edit e Select the name by single click and then click the Edit button on the toolbar e Select the name and then press Enter e Select Edit from the Edit menu of GRAMPS e Select Edit from the context menu that appears upon right click on the name From the Relationships View To edit the Active Person s data click on the Edit button next to the Active Person s name From the Pedigree View Double click in the box having the name of the person whose data you want to edit In each of the above cases the Edit Person dialog will appear Figure 3 8 Edit Person dialog Edit Person GRAMPS x Preferred name Given Lewis Anderson Call Name Title Suffix Type Birth Name General Gender male i 1D 144 Marker Ir a amp Events Names gt Sources Attributes Addresses Note Gallery Internet Associations LDS Type Description ID Date Place Role db Birth E1656 June 21 1855 Great Falls MT Primary Death E1657 june 28 1911 Twin Falls ID Primary a B
116. oose No style sheet for subsequent runs Because of GRAMPS internationalization ability the default character set for the HTML pages is UTF 8 This provides support for virtually all characters The Apache web server is sometimes misconfigured to override the character set specified in an HTML page This causes problems with the UTF 8 character set generated by GRAMPS distorting characters on the screen If your web server is misconfigured and you do not have priveledge to fix the configururation you may solve this problem by overriding the default character set to match what your web server may be expecting International copyright law reserves all rights to your data You own the data and people must get your permission to use it In genealogy however sharing data is a common ideal It this case you may wish to grant the user more rights While the default for GRAMPS is to place a notice indicating that all rights are reserved we give you the option to place your site under one of several of the Create Commons licenses With a Creative Commons license you grant user s certain permission to use your data without requiring them to contact you directly for permission See the Creative Commons http creativecommons org web site for more information Three additional pages can be generated by the web page generator The Home page is a page that will display an image and a whatever text you wish To enable this page choose a Media
117. orts Tools Help 2 SS e E D al B New Ope Back Home ScratchPad Reports Tools Add Edt Remove amp People Per Erd clear amp Relationships r Name D d rth Dat Death Date Family List 2 Pedigree ls Eveh 13 mabe bout 10 En de A ice Paul a female 11 22 E Smith Pla a Smith Amber Mar Ro femal le i Med Astrid Sh 123 mi 12 2111 Pepositones Ca ue a 128 1 al As you type the first record in the list that is compatible with your input will be selected Finding People For more complex people searches you may want to use filters Enable filter controls by choosing View gt Filter select the desired filter and click Apply For details see Section 2 1 2 1 Filters 3 9 Generating Reports Reports are the most common form of the output produced by genealogical research The majority of genealogical software puts a lot of emphasis on developing nice looking reports GRAMPS is no exception in this regard offering a choice of a variety of reports GRAMPS can generate reports in a multitude of open formats both text based and graphical GRAMPS can also produce screen based reports that are convenient for viewing a summary of your database Finally GRAMPS can generate a web site suitable for immediate posting on the Internet All of these are almost infinitely flexible If you wish to modify or extend the default format of GRAMPS report you can design and choose the style for each of your reports All reports can
118. ous types of analysis of your genealogical data Typically the tools do not produce output in form of printouts or files Instead they produce screen output immediately available for the researcher However when appropriate you can save the results of running a tool into a file Tools present one of the major strengths of GRAMPS compared to the most genealogical software The tools can be accessed through the menu by choosing Tools gt Tool Section gt Particular Tool Alterna tively you can browse the complete selection of available tools along with their brief descriptions in a Tool Selection dialog invoked by clicking the Tools icon on the toolbar 3 10 1 Analysis and Exploration This section contains tools which analyze and explore the database but do not alter it The following analysis and exploration tools are currently available in GRAMPS Compare individual events This tool compares events across the selected group of people The people for this comparison are chosen with the use of custom filters The custom filters can be created in the Custom Filter Editor see Section 3 10 3 1 Custom Filter Editor that can be invoked by clicking the Custom Filter Editor button The resulting table produced by this tool can be saved as a spreadsheet Interactive descendant browser This tool builds a tree with the Active Person being the root Children branch from their parents in the usual manner Use this tool for a quick glance of a per
119. parents of a person in the Family List View If the family already exists click on the Edit button on the tool bar and add the person as a child when the Edit Family dialog is displayed If the family does not already exist click the Add button to create a new family and add the appropriate parents and children 25 3 6 4 To Specify Children 3 6 4 To Specify Children Adding children to a relationship is done through a similar proceedure From the Relationships View or the Family List View select the existing family or create a new family Children can be added by selecting the Add button or Select button to the right of the child list Clicking the Add button will display the Edit Person dialog allowing you to enter a new person Clicking on the Select button will allow you to select an existing person from a list By default the child is added with a the relationship type of birth to both parents If you wish to change the parent child relationship from the default setting of birth select the child and click on the Edit button This will display the Edit Child Reference dialog Figure 3 7 Child Reference Editor Child Reference Editor GRAMPS x Garner Raymond E Relationship to father gt Relationship to Mother Adopted gt b O Sources Note ID Title Author Page do Help X Cancel 3 6 5 Adding Photos and Other Media Objects You can add photos and other media objects to individual people
120. phical Reports 63 3 9 4 Graphical Reports 3 9 4 Graphical Reports Graphical reports represent information in forms of charts and graphs Most of the options are common among graph ical reports therefore they will be described only once at the end of this section The few options which are specific to a given report will be described directly in that report s entry The following graphical reports are currently available in GRAMPS Ancestor Chart Ancestor Chart Wall Chart Descendant Graph Fan Chart Relationship Graph Statistics Chart Timeline Graph Common options for graphical reports This report generates the chart of people who are ancestors of the Active Person Specific options include the number of generations considered and the format of the displayed entries This report is similar to the Ancestor Chart report It provides more options which make it useful for generating huge charts suitable for a poster or a wall chart These options include the ability to compress the report getting rid of an empty space and the option to fit the whole chart on to a single page In the latter case the contents of the chart is scaled down appropriately This report generates a graph of people who are descendants of the Active Per son Specific options include the format of the displayed entries This report produces a chart resembling a fan with Active person in the center parents the the semicircle next
121. porting and exporting to other formats generating web sites etc When you are not doing these types of operations the Progress Bar is not shown The Status Bar is located to the right of the Progress Bar on the very bottom of the GRAMPS win dow It displays information about current GRAMPS activity and contextual information about the selected items The largest area in the center of the GRAMPS window is the display area What it displays depends on the currently selected View We ll discuss Views in detail below 2 1 Views Genealogical information is very broad and can be extremely detailed Displaying it poses a challenge that GRAMPS takes on by dividing and organizing the information into a series of Views Each View displays a portion of the total information selected according to a particular category This will become clearer as we explore the different Views listed below 2 1 1 Switching Views and Viewing Modes People View Displays the list of people in the database Relationships View Shows the relationships between the Active Person and other people This includes par ents spouses and children Family List View Shows the list of families in the database Pedigree View Displays a graphical ancestor tree for the selected person Events View Displays the list of events in the database Sources View Displays the list of sources in the database Places View Displays the list of places in the database Media View Disp
122. r most European countries MM DD YYYY for the U S and so on Besides exact dates GRAMPS recognizes many dates that are not regular before after about ranges and spans It also understands the quality estimated or calculated Finally it supports partial dates and many alternative calendars Below is the list of date entry rules to allow precise date parsing Date parsing rules The list only applys to the English version of GRAMPS If you are using localized version of GRAMPS your version may or may not provide a localized date parser At the time of this writing localized parsers exist for French German Russian Finnish Dutch and Spanish languages If the localized parser is available for your version chances are that other rules are in effect If there is no manual in your language yet you may try following your instinct and go with the common ways of denoting dates in your language If all else fails use the Date selection dialog described below Regular single dates can be entered just as you would write them Examples May 24 1961 or January 1 2004 Dates that are not regular should start with the quality estimated or calculated if applicable Example est 1961 or calc 2005 Note that a quality does not need to be specified for regular dates After the quality should appear the type If the type is before after or about you scan specify the type by writing before after or about If the type is a range wri
123. rd toolbar buttons invokes the popup menu with corresponding portion of the history Select any item from the menu to jump directly to it 3 8 6 Bookmarking People Similar to setting the Home person you can bookmark other people from the database to simplify further navigation To bookmark a person first navigate to that person then choose Bookmarks gt Add bookmark To move to that person from anywhere in the database choose Bookmarks gt Go to bookmark gt Person s name You can manage your bookmarks by choosing Bookmarks gt Edit bookmarks This opens the following Edit Book marks dialog with the list of bookmarks and the controls to modify this list Figure 3 32 Edit Bookmarks dialog a Edit Bookmarks GRAMPS x Edit Bookmarks Michaels Evelyn 113 113 PEN Perkins Alice Paula 134 134 Y Down Green Janis Elaine 141 141 Remove Anderson Jennifer 116 116 Q Help Ed close 3 8 7 Finding records To find a record in a database first switch to the appropriate View that provides the list of the desired records People Sources Places or Media Then start typing the name of a person or the title of a Source Place or Media object that you are looking for respectively You may also press Ctrl F to turn on the search mode but simply starting to type is also enough 60 3 9 Generating Reports Figure 3 33 Type ahead find DANA Saray CRAMPS He Edt View Go Bookmarks Rep
124. rson 11 2 1 6 Events View Figure 2 11 Personal Context Menu Sources i Places a SN A Garner Lewis Anderson amp Media 6 21 185 6 28 19 Y Edit MO ot Repositories EJ Copy Spouses 3 Siblings Children 2 i Parents r Home Y Show images Show marriage data Tree style a 144 Garner Lewis Anderson Tree size Right clicking on any person s box in the Pedigree View will bring up the context menu Among other useful items the context menu has sub menus listing Spouses Siblings Children and Parents of that person Greyed out sub menus indicate the absence of the data in the appropriate category Similar to the children menu above Childrens and Parents menus distinguish continuing lines from dead ends 2 1 6 Events View New in version 2 2 is the inclusion of an Events View Events can be shared between multiple people and multiple families The Events View lists the all the events recorded in the database The default view displays the Description ID Type Date Place and Cause of the event 12 2 1 7 Sources View Figure 2 12 Events View file Edit Wew Bookmarks Reports Tools Help is GU 3 Ba New Open ScratchPad Reports Tools Add Edt Remove amp People Description contains A find Y Clear amp Relationships Daserlatian ID Type Date Place Cause Family List Birth of Astrid Shermanna A E0027 Birth Janu
125. s or divorces are better filed in relation to those events under the Events tab The buttons Edit and allow let you add modify and remove a source reference to this relation ship Note that the Edit and buttons become available only when a source reference is selected from the list 41 3 7 4 Editing Infor mation About Sources Attributes Notes Gallery LDS Note Removing an entry from the list does not delete that source from the database It simply removes the source reference from this relationship The Attributes tab lets you view and edit particular information about the relationship that can be expressed as attributes The buttons Edit and let you add modify or remove an attribute Note that the Edit and buttons become available only when an attribute is selected from the list The Notes tab lets you view and edit notes associated with the relationship These could be any comments which do not naturally fit into the Parameter Value pairs available to Attributes To add a note or modify existing notes simply edit the text in the text entry field The Format option lets you set the way the note will appear in reports and web pages If you select Flowed the text generated will have single spaces put in place of all multiple spaces tabs and single end of line characters A blank line inserted between two blocks of text will signal a new paragraph additional inserted lines will be ignored If
126. son dialog 20 et a ate E E a sis 28 3 9 Edit Person dialog Names isiin in 20er SERIE Ban ER Risen 30 3 10 Edit Petson dialog Attributes sissies 08 0 ee pn es iones sereesdseesceadsseseangssecseaes 31 3 11 Edit Person dialog Addresses sneinen ine des Eeo KEE ETE EE EAEE KEEA spe seen 32 3 12 Edit Pers n dialog NOTES u aiii Be ee E a E o a rate oats 32 3 13 Edit Person dialog SQUICES 2 sense se Ss aan eben 33 3 14 Edit Person dialog Gallery 4 3 200 48 ss en EET E engen Pads 34 3 15 Edit Person dialog Internet een nen ee DE sb 35 3 16 Edit Person dialog Associations 2 u nee ne RR osnetds 36 3 17 Edit Person dialog EDS 2 5 2 Ss BI Eu En IRB 37 3 18 Date selection dialog 2 2 2 es see Hose eben in 39 3 19 Family Editor dialog 32 35 schon 2 ide EE EEE EEE EREA EEE EAEE inte 40 3 20 Source Editor dialo S iie u namens eu IRTe IHR In I 43 3 21 Pl ce Editor didlo g morsan een ee aa RI Hs i 45 3 22 Media Properties Editor dialo8 2 2 38 8280 8 0 dees Boreus pe 47 3 23 Event Editor dialog u 2 ee Ebern Rh se ernennen 49 3 24 Source Information dialoga een ste Br IE pr 50 3 23 Name Editor dialog 2 22 8222 8 A A ti 51 3 26 Attribute Editor dialog 2 2er none lass heribes EES PENA 53 3 21 Address Editor dialog nennen ad 54 3 28 Compare People didlo S shrine a Bear RR is 56 3 29 Merge People dial g n 2er Braun BE oki 5
127. son s descendants 68 3 10 2 Database Processing Q Tip Double clicking on tree node will bring up the Edit Person dialog allowing to view or modify the personal data 3 10 2 Database Processing This section contains tools which may modify your database The tools from this section are used mostly for finding and correcting errors in the data The following database processing tools are currently available in GRAMPS Note The modifications will only be performed upon your explicit consent except for the automatic fixes performed by Check and repair database tool Check and repair database Extract information from names Find possible duplicate people Fix capitalization of family names Rename personal event types Reorder GRAMPS IDs 3 10 3 Utilities This tool checks the database for integrity problems fixing the problems it can Specifically the tool is checking for e Broken family links These are the cases when a person s record refers to a family while the family s record does not refer to that person and vice versa e Missing media objects The missing media object is the object whose file is referenced in the database but does not exist This can happen when the file 1s accidentally deleted renamed or moved to another location Empty families These are the family entries which have no reference to any person as their member e Parent relationship This checks all families to ensure that fat
128. such source references stored in the database The buttons Edit and let you add modify and remove a source reference associated with a place Note that the Edit and buttons become available only when a source reference is selected from the list The Gallery tab lets you store and display photos and other media objects associated with a given place The central part of the window lists all such media objects and gives you a thumbnail preview of image files Other objects such as audio files movie files etc are represented by a generic GRAMPS icon The buttons Select Edit and let you add a new image add a reference to an existing image modify an existing image and remove a media object s link to the place Note that the Edit and buttons become available only when a media object is selected from the list The Internet tab contains Internet addresses relevant to the place The bottom part of the window lists all such Internet addresses stored in the database The top part shows the details of the currently selected address in the list if any The buttons Edit and let you add modify and remove an Internet address The Go button represented by an icon with a green arrow and yellow circle opens your browser and takes you to the web page corresponding to the highlighted Internet address Note that the Edit and Go buttons become available only when an address is selected from the list The References tab indicates any data
129. t If however you would like the GRAMPS project to to adopt your strategy you would need to convince GRAMPS developers that your strategy is good for GRAMPS and superior to the present development strategy 84 Appendix B Keybindings reference Most of the standard menu items define equivalent keybindings These are apparent because they are displayed on the right of the menu item However some keybindings are not associated with any items in the menu This appendix contains the list of keybindings that are not displayed in menus of GRAMPS B 1 List Views B 1 1 Common bindings The following bindings are available in all list views People View Sources View Places View and Media View Key Function lt Alt gt N Changes the view to the next view lt Alt gt P Changes the view to the previous view lt Alt gt S Open the Scratch Pad lt Ctrl gt B Edit the bookmarks lt Ctrl gt D Add the selected item as a bookmark lt Ctrl gt H Open the Undo History dialog B 1 2 People View bindings Key Function lt Ctrl gt Enter Edits the selected person lt Ctrl gt Insert Adds a new person to the database lt Ctrl gt Delete Deletes the selected person 85 86 Appendix C Filter rules reference This appendix lists of all the filter rules currently defined in GRAMPS Each of these rules is available for use when creating custom filters see Section 3 10 3 1 Custom Filter
130. te between DATE and DATE and if the type is a span write from DATE to DATE patterns where DATE is a single date Examples est from 2001 to 2003 before June 1975 est about 2000 calc between May 1900 and January 1 1990 Partial dates are entered simply by omitting unknown information Examples May 1961 and 2004 Alternate calendars are calendars other than the Gregorian calendar Currently GRAMPS supports Hebrew French Republican Julian Islamic and Persian alternate calendars To specify the calendar other than the default Grego rian append the name of the calendar to the date string e g January 9 1905 julian 3 7 2 3 Date Validity Indicators GRAMPS uses color circles to indicate the validity of the entered date Q Date LED buttons The color circles are also referred to as the LED buttons Clicking on an LED button will invoke the Date selection dialog described in detail below see Section 3 7 2 4 Graphical User Interface for Entering Dates A green circle means that the date is valid and complete regular date e g May 24 1961 In simple terms green means that the date corresponds to a unique date Yellow circle means that the date is valid but is not a regular date This could be the date of a different type a before date before May 25 1962 an after date after May 1960 an about date about May 23 1961 a range between May 1 1961 and May 31 1961 or a span from May 1 1961 to May 31 1961
131. te tab heading The bottom part has OK and Cancel buttons Clicking the OK button at any time will apply all the changes made in all tabs and close the dialog window Clicking the Cancel button at any time will close the window without applying any changes Q Tip The tab labels reflect the presence of corresponding information if the tab contains any data its label appears boldface if the tab has no data then its label appears regular not bold The tabs provide the following information categories of the attribute data General The General tab allows editing of the most general information about the attribute name of the attribute and its value The information can be typed in the appropriate text entry fields The attribute name can also be selected from available choices if any listed in the Attribute drop down menu Check the Private record box to mark this attribute record as private This will give you a chance to omit this attribute from being included in the reports if you choose so among the report generation options Sources The Sources tab displays information about sources relevant to this attribute and controls allowing its modification The central part displays the list of all such sources references stored in the database The buttons Edit and allow you to correspondingly add modify and remove a source reference to this attribute Note that the Edit and buttons become available only when a source reference is sele
132. the families in which the person is a child Since it is possible for a person to have multiple sets of parents it is possible to have several Parents sections You can control how much information is displayed by using the View menu The view menu allows you to show or hide details the birth and death information and to show or hide siblings Next to each person listed is an Edit button which will allow you to edit all the details of that particular person You may add a new set of parents by either selecting the Add Parents or the Share Parents The Add Parents button will create a new family with the Active Person listed as a child The Share Parents button will allow you to choose from a list of existing families and then add the person as a child to that family You may edit an existing parents by selecting the Edit button next to the parents If you select the Delete next to a set of parents then the Active Person will be removed as a child from the parents This button does not delete the parents relationship Warning If you are not careful it is possible to create multiple families with the same par ents This is rarely what the user wants to do If you attempt to add a new family that has the same parents as an existing family GRAMPS will issue a warning dialog If you get this dialog you should probably Cancel the edit and then use the Select button to select the existing family Similar to the Parents section is the Fa
133. the tab allow you add a new repository link to or share an existing repository edit the reference to the repository or remove the reference References The References tab lists all the database records that refer to this source if any The list can be ordered by any of its column headings Type ID or Name Double clicking an entry allows you to view and edit the record Note Only primary objects can be shown in the References tab Person Family Event Place or Media object Secondary objects such as Names and Attributes can only be accessed through the primary objects to which they belong 3 7 5 Editing Information About Places To edit information about places switch to the Places View and select the desired entry from the list of places Dou ble click that entry or click the Edit button on the toolbar to bring up the following Place Editor dialog 3 7 5 Editing Infor mation About Places Figure 3 21 Place Editor dialog Place Editor ie Longitude Latitude ID P1131 Q Location Alternate Locations Sources Note Gallery Internet Y References City Church parish County State The main part of the window displays seven notebook tabs containing different categories of information Click a tab to view or edit its contents The bottom part of the window has OK and Cancel buttons Clicking OK will apply all the changes made in all tabs and close the dialog window Click
134. the value sw for the Place The rule returns a match if and only if all non empty values are partially matched by a person s birth To use just one value leave the other values empty This rule matches people whose death event matches specified values for Date Place and Description The rule returns a match even if the person s death event matches the value partially The matching rules are case insensitive For exam ple anyone who died in Sweden will be matched by the rule using the value sw for the Place The rule returns a match if and only if all non empty values are partially matched by a person s death To use just one value leave the other values empty This rule matches people whose records refer to the specified source This rule matches people that have a personal event matching specified values for the Event type Date Place and Description The rule returns a match even 1f the person s event matches the value partially The matching rules are case insensitive For example anyone who graduated in Sweden will be matched by the rule using the Graduation event and the value sw for the Place The personal events should be selected from a pull down menu The rule returns a match if and only if all non empty values are partially matched by the personal event To use just one value leave the other values empty This rule matches people that have a family event matching specified values for the Event type Dat
135. thod The decisions you make during the merge only affect which data will become primary and which will become secondary for the resulting merged record 55 3 7 12 Merging records Compare and Merge Fast Merge When exactly two people are selected choose Edit gt Compare and Merge to invoke Compare People dialog Figure 3 28 Compare People dialog Compare People GRAMPS x Compare People Andersen Samuel Andersen Samuel A 1D 12057 ID 12059 Gender male Gender male Birth Marion IL Pp t Death 2 0 1858 McPherson KS arents Family ID F660 Events Father Andersen Samuel 12057 Birth Marion IL Mother Moreno Delilah 12056 Death 2 0 1858 McPherson KS Spouses No parents found No spouses or children found Spouses Family ID F660 Spouse Moreno Delilah 12056 Type Married Marriage 1 7 1848 child Andersen Aaron B 12058 Child Andersen Samuel A 12059 Child Andersen william 12060 Y gt Select Select e Help X Cancel Merge and close The dialog allows you to make a decision on whether or not the selected records should be merged If you decide that the records should not be merged despite similar names you may click Cancel to close the dialog without making any changes If you decide to proceed with merging select the appropriate Select radio button to specify the record to be used as the source of primary data then click Merge and close The data from
136. tion of notes and comments To store any type of these records simply drag the existing record on to the Scratch Pad from the corresponding editor dialog To reuse the record drag it from the Scratch Pad on to the corresponding place in the editor e g Address tab Attribute tab etc Q Tip Some objects are showing the link icon on the left This indicates that dragging such selection will pro duce a reference to an existing object not copy the object itself For example the media object file will not be duplicated Instead the reference will be made to an existing media object which will result in the local gallery entry Q Tip Scratch Pad storage is persistent within a single GRAMPS session Closing the window will not lose the stored records However exiting GRAMPS will 3 10 3 3 Other tools Generate SoundEx codes This utility generates SoundEx codes for the names of people in the database Please visit the NARA Soundex Indexing page http www archives gov research_room genealogy census soundex html to learn more about Soundex Indexing System Relationship calculator This utility calculates and displays the relationship of any person to the Active Person Verify the database This utility allows you to verify the database based on the set of criteria specified by you Difference between Verify tool and previously described Check tool The Check tool detects inconsistencies in the database structure The Verify tool howe
137. tive Person only his or her descendants his or her an cestors or entire database the report may contain from one to many individual summaries Another option for this report is the inclusion of source information when listing events This report produces a comprehensive description of ancestors of the Active Person The highlights of this report include elaborate layout images of chil dren present and former spouses and source citations Specific options num ber of backward generations to consider whether to cite sources and whether to break pages between generations This report produces a brief description of descendants of the Active Person Specific options number of forward generations to consider This report covers in detail the ancestors of the active person It includes vital data birth and death as well as marriages Specific options number of back ward generations to consider as well as a variety of options regarding the exact contents to include This report covers in detail the descendants of the active person It includes vital birth and death information as well as marriages Specific options number of forward generations to consider This report creates an ancestral report similar to that produced by the Family Tree Maker tm program It covers in detail the Active Person and his her an cestors It includes vital information as well as marriages children and notes Specific options number of backward ge
138. tools etc is to copy an exist ing GRAMPS report filter or tool If you can create what you want by modi fying existing code great If your idea does not fit into the logic of any exist ing GRAMPS tool the following page http gramps sourceforge net phpwi ki index php GrampsDevelopersPage may provide some help in writing your own plugin from scratch If you need more help or would like to discuss your idea with us please do not hesitate to contact us at gramps devel lists sf net mailto gramps devel lists sf net To test your work in progress you may save your plugin under HOME gramps plugins directory and it should be found and imported on start up The correctly written plugin will register itself with GRAMPS create menu item and so on If you are happy with your plugin and would like to contribute your code back to the GRAMPS project you are very welcome to do so by contacting us at gramps devel Olists sf net mailto gramps devel lists sf net The best thing you can do is to fix the bug and send the patch to gramps devel lists sf net mailto gramps devel lists sf net A good bug report would include e Version of gramps you were using when you encountered the bug available through Help gt About menu item e Language under which gramps was run available by executing echo LANG in your terminal 83 It is obvious that GRAMPS abso lutely needs to become a client server web based PHP
139. tually alive GRAMPS uses an advanced algorithm to try to determine if a person could still be alive Remember GRAMPS is making its best guess and it may not always be able to guess correctly all the time Please double check your data Check this box to tell GRAMPS to use the specific path for your images when writing image references in GEDCOM This option allows specify where your image files are located This is useful when you are transfering your GEDCOM file from one computer to another It tells the program that is importing the data where your images are 20 3 5 2 Export into GRAMPS formats Figure 3 2 Export assistant GEDCOM options Export Assistant GRAMPS GEDCOM export options Encoding ANSEL E Options Filter Entire Database Target GEDCOM 5 5 standard Copyright Standard Copyright W Restrict data on living people amp Use Living as first name amp Exclude potes amp Exclude sources W Do not include records marked private _ Reference images from path media x Cancel Back gt Eorward 3 5 2 Export into GRAMPS formats GRAMPS database grdb export GRAMPS XML database export GRAMPS package export Export to CD Exporting to the GRAMPS native format will simply make a copy of your data under another name Exporting to this format can also be useful if you have directly opened an XML or GEDCOM file and would like to save it as the grdb file E
140. urial E1658 July 1 1911 Twin Falls ID Primary Ta l i X Cancel eax The top of the window shows the basic information about the person whose data is being edited Below are several notebook tabs containing different categories of available information Click any tab to view and edit its contents Clicking the OK button at the bottom will apply all the changes made in all tabs and close the dialog window Clicking the Cancel button will close the window without applying any changes If any data in any tabs were modified an alert window will appear prompting you to choose from the following options close the dialog without saving changes cancel the initial cancel request or save the changes 28 3 7 1 Editing Infor mation About People Note Clicking OK will immediately save changes to the database There is no need for a Save operation since all changes are immediate O If a tab label is in boldface type this means it contains data If not it has no data The general information is at the top of the window This includes the primary name and general information Primary Name includes Given name Family name Family prefix such as de or van Suffix e g Jr or IID Title e g Dr or Rev Nickname Bob for Robert Type of the name birth name married name etc Some of these Family name and Type fields provide autocompletion feature as you type in these fields a menu appears below the
141. used to select people included in reports exports and other tools and utilities This is in fact a very powerful tool in genealogical analysis When you launch it the User defined filters dialog appears that lists all the filters if any previously defined by you Click the Add button to define a new filter Once you have designed your filters you can edit test and delete selected filters using the Edit Test and Delete buttons respectively All the filters displayed in the list will be automatically saved along with your database and will be available with subsequent sessions of GRAMPS Note The changes made to the filters only take effect when you click the Apply and close button Clicking the Add button invokes the following Define filter dialog Figure 3 35 Define filter dialog Define filter GRAMPS x Define filter Definition Name Males born before 1800 Comment This is atest Rule list Name Values db People with the lt birth data gt Date before 1800 Males Options All rules must apply G Return values that do not match the filter rules Quer X cancel Ho Type the name for your new filter into the Name field Enter any comment that would help you identify this filter in the future into the Comment field Add as many rules to the Rule list as you would like to your filter using Add button If the filter has more than one rule select one of the Rule
142. ver is detecting the records that do not satisfy your particular criteria 72 3 10 3 Utilities For example you may want to make sure that nobody in your database had chil dren at the age of 98 Based on common sense such a record would indicate an error However it is not a consistency error in the database Besides someone might have a child at the age of 98 although this rarely happens The Verify tool will display everything that violates your criteria so that you can check whether the record is erroneous or not The ultimate decision is yours 73 74 Chapter 4 Settings 4 1 Preferences Most of the settings in GRAMPS are configured in the Preferences dialog To invoke it choose Edit gt Preferences Figure 4 1 Preferences dialog Preferences GRAMPS x Preferences Q Automatically load last database O Add default source on import O Enable spelling checker O Display Tip of the Day Use shading in Relationship View Enable database transactions EA close The tabs on the top display the available option categories 4 1 1 General This category contains preferences relevant to the general operation of the program Options are Automatically load last database Check this box to automatically load the last open database on startup Add default source on import This option affects the importing of data If this is set each item that is imported will co
143. weblog Javascript C distributed KDE Motif Tcl Win32 C Y ou name it application When is this going to happen e Symptoms indicating that this is indeed a bug Any Traceback messages error messages warnings etc that showed up in your terminal or a in separate traceback window Most problems can be fixed quickly provided there is enough information To ensure this please follow up on your bug reports In particular if you file a bug report with sf net bug tracker PLEASE log in to sf net before filing register your free account if you don t have one Then we will have a way of contacting you should we need more information If you choose to file your report anony mously at least check every so often whether your report page has something new posted as it probably would If the above explanations seem vague please follow this link http www chiark greenend org uk sgtatham bugs html The surest way to see it happen is to get it done by yourself Since GRAMPS 1s free open source nobody prevents you from taking all of the code and con tinuing its development in whatever direction you see fit In doing so you may consider giving your new project another name to avoid confusion with the continuing GRAMPS development If you would like the GRAMPS project to provide advice expertise filters etc we will gladly cooperate with your new project to ensure compatibility or import export options to your new format of a projec
144. ween the subtitle and the footer Because of its configurability this item can be used to create title pages for the whole book its chapter or even a single item Custom Text This item produces a page with three paragraphs each containing custom text The appearance of the text can be adjusted by using custom styles This item was meant to be used for epigraphs dedications explanations notes and so forth 3 9 3 Code Generators This category contains reports that produce files that are meant to be processed by other programs By themselves the files will not provide meaningful information the files must first be processed by another program The only code generator currently available in GRAMPS is the Relationship Graph producing the GraphViz description of the graph The Relationship Graph creates a complex relationship graph in GraphViz format The GraphViz dot tool can transform the graph into postscript jpeg png vrml svg and other formats GraphViz tools are freely available from the GraphViz site http www graphviz org Specific options for this report include filter and number of generations considered as well as several GraphViz specific options related to pagination color and details of the graph Q Tip If you are not interested in GraphViz code itself and just want to generate graphical output GRAMPS can do it for you under the hood Look for Relationship Graph in the Graphical Reports category Sec tion 3 9 4 Gra
145. xporting into GRAMPS XML format will produce a database compatible with the previous versions of GRAMPS As XML is a text based human readable format you may also use it to take a look at your data Exporting to the GRAMPS package format will create a compressed file that contains the database and copies of all associated media files This is useful if you want to move your database to another computer or to share it with some one Exporting to CD will prepare your database and copies of all media object files for recording onto a CD To actually burn the CD you will need to go to the GNOME burn location which can be accessed by navigating through Nau tilus After exporting to CD select Go gt CD Creator in the Nautilus menu Your database directory will show up To burn it to the CD click the CD icon on the Nautilus toolbar or select File gt Write to CD in the Nautilus menu If a media file is not found during export you will see the same Missing Media dialog you encounter with GEDCOM export 21 3 5 3 Export into other formats 3 5 3 Export into other formats Web Family Tree Exporting to Web Family Tree will create a text file that can be used by the Web Family Tree program Export options include filter selection and the ability to limit data on living people to that of their family ties Gene Web Exporting to Gene Web will save a copy of your data into a popular web genealogy for mat To find out more about Gene
146. you select the Preformatted option the text in reports and web pages will appear exactly as you enter it in the Notes dialog The Gallery tab lets you store and display photos and other media objects associated with the rela tionship The central part of the window lists all such objects and gives you a thumbnail preview of image files Other objects such as audio files movie files etc are represented by a generic GRAMPS icon The buttons Select Edit and let you add a new image add a reference to an existing image modify an existing image and remove a media object s link to the relationship Note that the Edit and buttons become available only when a media object is selected from the list The LDS Latter Days Saints tab displays information about the LDS Sealed to Spouse ordinance The data can include date LDS temple and Place The status of the ordinance can be described through the selections available in the Status pop up menu and can also be referenced in the corre sponding Sources and Note buttons 3 7 4 Editing Information About Sources To edit source data switch to the Sources View and select the desired entry in the list of sources Double click that entry or click the Edit icon on the toolbar to invoke the following Source Editor dialog 42 3 7 4 Editing Infor mation About Sources Figure 3 20 Source Editor dialog Source Editor GRAMPS x Source Editor Tee Author Abbreviation Publicati
147. yout of the reports You can also use GRAMPS controls in the report dialogs to tell what contents should be used for a particular report In addition to this you have an ability to create your own filters this is useful in selecting people based on criteria set by you You can combine these filters to create new more complex filters Finally you have an option to create your own plugins These may be new reports research tools import export filters etc This assumes some knowledge of programming in Python The nice thing about standards is that there never is a shortage of them GRAMPS is tested to support the following flavors of GEDCOM GED COMS 5 Brother s Keeper Family Origins Family Tree Maker Ftree Ge neWeb Legacy Personal Ancestral File Pro Gen Reunion and Visual Ge nealogie GRAMPS has no hard limits on the size of a database that it can handle Starting with this release GRAMPS no longer loads all data into memory which allows it to work with a much larger database than before In reality however there are practical limits The main limiting factors are the available memory on the system and the cache size used for BSDDB database access With common memory sizes these days GRAMPS should have no problem using databases with tens of thousands of people We have found that on a typical system GRAMPS tends to bog down after the database has around 150 000 people Again this is dependent on how much memory you have

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