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1. Description Type ID Date Place Role v Personal Events 3 Birth E2687 21 6 1855 Great Falls MT Primary Death E1657 28 6 1911 Twin Falls ID Primary Burial E1658 1 7 1911 Twin Falls ID Primary v With Martel Luella Jacques F17 1 Marriage E2815 1 4 1875 Paragould AR Family Fig 5 1 Edit person e From the Relationships To edit the Active Person s data click on the Edit button next to the Active Person s name e From the Ancestry Category 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 The top of the window has two parts The basic information about the Preferred name of the person and a section General with the privacy button to set the record as private the gender selector an ID you can give this record and a marker you can assign to the person indicating the state of the record complete TODO uncertain Which will give this record a specific color in the person view Below this top section there are several 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 th
2. X Close Fig 7 5 Age Stats Gramplet showing options Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Gramplets You can change the gramplet s options by detaching and selection the options drop down area and pressing Save Calendar Gramplet El X Calendar Sun Mon Te Wed Thu Fig 7 8 Calendar Fri The Calendar gramplet shows a monthly calendar Double click a day to run the On This Day Quick View Withthe lt and gt buttons top left corner month you can change to the previ ous and next month With the lt and gt buttons top right corner year you can change to the previ ous and next year The Quick View window shows you the Events of the selected day Events on this ex act date and Other events on this Month day in history as well as Other events in that year The information is presented in a table showing e Date e Type e Place Reference From Gramps You can also drag a date to the date field of the Age on Date Gramplet to enter that date Given Name Cloud Gramplet Given Name Cloud Gramplet GRAMPS Given Name Cloud A Abigail Abraham Agnes Alan Albert Alexander Alice Amanda H andrew ANN ANNA anne Barbara c Catherine Charles Christian Christopher Clara Daniel David Edward Elizabeth Emily Flora Frances Francis Franklin Frederick George H Hannah Hans Helen Henry Isaac Jacob James Ja Ne Joel Johann J oO h N jonathan joseph joyce Jr Katherine L Lee Lou
3. g Garner Lewis Anderson Media a Edit a Repositories EJ Copy SPOUSES d Siblings i Children Parents Related ft Home Y Show images Edit Copy Show marriage data Tree style i Tee size 144 Garner Lewis Anderson Spouses gt Fig 2 16 Personal context Siblings OO Children gt Parents sa F Fig 2 17 Fan Chart View 12 From Gramps Sources Category Family tree T GRAMPS Family Trees Edit View Bookmarks Reports Tools Help r ae le x ax TP a Family Trees Clipboard Reports Tools Add Edit Remove E Gramplets Title contains v LQ Find d Clear amp sal Title ID Author Publication Information Relationships Baptize registry 1850 186 S0000 Priests of Great Fall Microfilm Public Library 7 Birth Certificate S1 Z Families i Birth Death and Marriage R 53 4 Pedigree Birth Records S2 Import from test2 ged 50003 J Events m _ Marriage Certificae So lan Sources World of the Wierd S0002 John Jacob Jinglehie R Places BB media Repositories EA Notes 1180 Garner Kathryn Mary 7 7 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
4. Select Date A ae E S a From Gramps The name of the person or company taking the image Select Date Will bring up a calendar and double click on a date The time will be filled in as the current time Date The Date Time needs to be typed in as a very specific format Year Mon Day Hour Minutes Seconds 1826 Apr 12 14 06 00 Copyright Can be anything that you please Ex C 2010 Smith and Wesson Subject Please enter keywords that describe the picture Do NOT add a space after the comma Ex Census Milwaukee Oregon Latitude Longitude Latitude Longitude data can be entered in one of two ways 1 Degrees Minutes Seconds Ex 10 59 14 In this format you will need to select latitude reference and longitude reference If the Latitude begins with a negative number select S as Lat Ref or N if a positive number If the Longitude begins with a negative number select W as the Long Ref or E if a positive number 2 Decimal Ex 34 15954 In this format the Latitude and Longitude reference will be selected for you after you click Convert GPS Coordinates or press 15 Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Gramplets the Save button For foreign countries that might use a instead of a please use the Description Type in something about the image the people in it or the location of the image Non latin characters are NOT allowed ASCII characters only Buttons 1 Save Will write the me
5. amp le 10002 Malengier Willy Fig 7 15 Relatives Gramplet This Gramplet shows all direct relatives of the active person It s intended use is as a navigation help an alternative way to move through your Gramps database If you detach the gramplet and place it next to Gramps it will allow you to use it to easily change the content of the current person view If you are working in the ancestry views the active person is the left most person By clicking a name in the relatives gramplet you can easily change the active person and all person view in the other window will update As the relatives gramplet shows all spouses all children and all parents this offers an alternative way of navigating your data The names in this gramplet also allow you to call up the person editor directly by right clicking on any of the names Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Gramplets Place Place details Media Object Preview Since Gramps 3 3 the preview moved to a gramplet Image Metadata The Image Metadata Gramplet offers an easy interface to add edit and remove Image Exif Metadata from your images jpg png tiff exv nef psd pef Special Note Before being able to use this gramplet addon you will need to download and install pyexiv2 or install pyexiv2 from your local Linux repository Windows user there is an installer for you Ubuntu use the Universe reposi tory to find pyexiv2 Once you ha
6. Edit Remove Description contains v LQ Find d clear ea iii e m a Birth of Mason Michael Smith Z E0066 Birth 26 6 1996 Hayward Alameda Co CA HSEEE E0058 Degree 1984 Business Management E0045 Degree 1988 Census of Craig Peter Smith E0040 Census Christening of Amber Marie E0019 Christening 26 4 1998 Community Presbyterian Ch Christening of Elna Jefferson E0054 Christening 16 9 1800 Gladsax Kristianstad Lan S Christening of Gustaf Smith E0032 Christening 7 12 1862 Gladsax Kristianstad Lan S Christening of Mason Micha E0067 Christening 10 7 1996 Community Presbyterian Ch Death of Anna Hansdotter E0001 Death 29 9 1945 Sparks Washoe Co NV Death of Anna Streiffert E0038 Death 2 2 1927 Ronne Bornholm Denmark Death of Astrid Shermanna E0028 Death 21 12 1963 San Francisco San Francisc Death of Carl Emil Smith E0021 Death 28 1 1959 Reno Washoe Co NV Death of Elna Jefferson E0053 Death Sweden al 144 Garner Lewis Anderson 3492 3492 From Gramps Family Trees Edit View Go Bookmarks Reports Tools Help S eoo BS wee R amp Garner von Zieli ski Lewis Anderson Sr 21 6 1855 28 6 1911 2 Es Garner Robert W Zielinski Phoebe Emily Ay 1826 7 04 24 Julien m 4 10 1849 12 4 1827 tw 3 2 1916 7 3 1882 Garner Joseph P fEdwards Lucy fUecrtakos George Daniels Phoebe a 1792 m 3 1 1823 x 17 1 1799 vers 0 9 1784 E
7. Select the source that will provide the primary data for the merged source Newsbank Register News Archive 2007 50005 o Register News Archive 50032 Detailed Selection Mm Hel Cancel P Fig 5 28 Merge sources regular When exactly two sources are selected choose Edit gt Merge to invoke Merge Sources dialog 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 spec e Title e Author e Abbreviated title Publication information e ID to be used for the merged record then click OK Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Entering and editing data detailed part 3 ce n Merge Sources Gramps so is ies Merge Sources Select the source that will provide the primary data for the merged source Newsbank Register News Archive 2007 50005 Register News Archive 50032 w Detailed Selection Source 1 Source 2 e Title Newsbank Register News Title RegisterNews Archive Gramps ID 50005 _ Gramps ID 30032 Notes media objects data items and repository references of both sources will be combined Pu Help a OK Cancel Fig 5 29 Merge sources expanded Merge Places When exactly two places are selected choose Edit g
8. This category contains preferences relevant to the Family Tree Database path Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Settings e Family Tree Database path The default path where the Databases are stored is home directory gramps grampsdb Unless you absolutely want to change this stay with the default path e Automatically load last database This option controls the enabling and disabling of the loading on start up of the last used database Display Preferences Gramps General Database Display Text ID Formats Dates Warnings Researcher Marker Colors Name format Prefix Surname Given Patronymic Suffix v Edit Date format Num rique v Calendar on reports Gregorian v Surname guessing Father s surname v Status bar Active person s name and ID v Show text in sidebar buttons requires restart Fig 10 3 Display Preferences This category contains preferences relevant to the display of data and names Options are e Name format This option controls the display of names In Gramps there are two type of name display formats the predefined formats and the user defined custom formats Several different predefined name formats are available Given Prefix Patronymic Suffix Given Prefix Surname Given Patronymic Suffix etc Clicking on the righthand side Edit willbringupa Display Name Editor window where the available list of options is shown The format is given as well as an example When predefined formats are no
9. 2E close Fig 7 10 Fan Chart Gramplet Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Gramplets The Fan Chart gramplet shows the direct ancestors of the active person in a circular format It is similar to the Pedigree View but shown around the center active person and further generations spiralling out Click on a parent in the chart and they will expand or contract above their child Right click on a person and you can e select that person to be the active person e edit the person e select from among the person s relatives to be the active person Clicking in an open area non person and dragging the mouse will allow you to rotate the chart about the center In Gramps 3 3 you may also left click and drag in the center to reposition the fan chart A white edge on the outer radius of the chart indicates more parents for that person A black circle in the center indicates that the center person has children The Fan Chart gramplet will update when you change the active person or change family trees Minimizing a gramplet will prevent it from updating Pedigree Gramplet Pedigree Gramplet GRAMPS Pedigree gt Options Leary Mary b 1705 d 1734 p Thruston M Thruston Martha b about 1685 Wilkerson Anna b 1764 d estimated about 1674 LDudley Margaret b 1735 d estimated about 1845 b April 20 1844 d estimated about 1954 o Cooper Wilson T d October 23 1829 pard Beverly Randolph Sr b February 7
10. Number must be greater than lesser equal to People with lt count gt addresses Matches people with a certain number of personal addresses Values Number of instances Number must be greater than lesser equal to People with lt count gt associations Matches people with a certain number of associations Values Number of instances Number must be greater than lesser equal to People with lt count gt media Matches people with a certain number of items in the gallery Values Number of instances Number must be greater than lesser equal to From Gramps Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Filters e People with lt count gt source e People with lt id gt Matches people with a certain number of items in the source Values Number Matches people with GRAMPS ID The rule returns a match only if the ID is of instances Number must be greater than lesser equal to matched exactly You can either enter the ID into a text entry field or select an object from the list by clicking Select button In the latter case e People with lt marker gt Matches people with a marker of a particular value Values Marker type Complete or ToDo e People changed after lt date time gt Matches person records changed after a specified date time yyy mm dd People with complete records hh mm ss or in the range if a second date time is given Values Changed Matches all the people whose records are complete iere ae Ge One the ID will appear in the text
11. You can access this tool via the menu Tool gt Family Tree Processing gt Find Possible Duplicate People Two options are available e Match Threshold choose between High Medium and Low from the drop down menu e Options a check box to enable or disable the use of soundex codes for matching possible duplicate people Only three buttons are present Help brings you to this page a Cancel to stop processing andan OK button to start processing the data If you select the OK button the data will be processes in two passes e Pass 1 Building preliminary lists e Pass 2 Calculating potential matches A progress bar will be shown and depending the speed of your computer and the amount of people in the database this can take some time Finallya Potential Merges window is presented This window shows a list with three columns Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Tools e Rating this gives you an idea of the resemblance between the two people The higher the ranking the higher the chance that the people are duplicates e First Person e Second Person If you select a row you can check the details with the Compare button or you can double click on the selected row Three buttons are present Help brings you to this page a Close to close the window anda Compare button to which brings upa Compare People window which was explain in detail in the Merge People Dialog Here you can select with the radio buttons one of the persons and eventually use the Merge c
12. Arkansas Seaton Dump Arkansas Bird in Hand PA Bird in Hand Pennsylvania Giants Neck Connecticut Giants Neck Connecticut A United States of America United States of America g Cabin lohn Marvland Cabin lohn Marvland United States of America Lx Help X Cancel Accept changes and close Extract Place Data Canada Sweden Stockholm A e France Paris IDF 75000 FRA or Paris ILE DE FRANCE 75000 FRA The dialog allows you to preview and confirm individual changes Extract Event Descriptions from Event Data Extracts event descriptions from the event data by using a model event type of Surname Given name If event description is missing then tool will use this event description field model Find Possible Duplicate People This tool searches the entire database looking for the entries that may represent the same person From Gramps Potential Merges GRAMPS Potential Merges Second Person Ball Ida E Webb R Eaken Garner Louella Marie Ball Mary Elizabeth Webb Robert Garner Kathryn Mary 4 25 4 25 4 25 4 25 4 23 4 25 4 25 4 00 3 50 Andersen Samuel A Andersen Aaron B Jim nez Mary C Jim nez Sarah M Jim nez Armand E Jim nez Tolbert A Warner Nathaniel M pegopos Boucher Fr Patrick Warner Humphrey Martin pe nopoB Boucher Fr Daniel Gabriel Compare Fig 4 4 Duplicate People
13. From Gramps Another method is to backup the hidden directory gramps This directory is situat ed in your home directory on Linux systems Backing up this directory will backup your databases and revisions Do not keep backups in GEDCOM Not all information Gramps stores can be written in the GEDCOM Hence an export import operation Gramps gt GEDCOM gt Gramps will mean you lose data Use the gramps file format for backups Do not keep backups in GRDB format GRDB is a database which might be computer dependent read not working on a different PC Small damage to a GRDB file can also not be repaired Use the gramps file format for backups Does Gramps support Unicode fonts In particular does it support non Roman Unicode fonts Yes Gramps works internally with Unicode UTF 8 so all alphabets can be used on all entry fields All reports fully support this although for PDF PS you need to work with gnome print or LibreOffice Installation What is needed to install Gramps under Linux Solaris or FreeBSD Gramps is a GTK application Gramps needs to have the pygtk libraries installed on the system As long as these libraries are installed Gramps should function It will operate under the GNOME desktop KDE desktop or any other desktop If the GNOME bindings for Python are installed on the system Gramps will have additional functionality The Gramps project recommends version 2 8 or higher of GTK Does Gramps work
14. IN o4d Name pt Address City Fig 10 6 ID Format Preferences State Province Country would like IDs to be 1 2 3 etc simply set the format ZIP Postal Code pe kaa tesla Phone LOOO Email Fig 10 8 Researcher Preferences Fig 10 7 Warning Preferences e Show plugin status dialog on plugin load error General Database Display Text ID Formats Dates Warnings Researcher Mz Warnings This category controls the display of warning dialogs allowing the re enabling of di alogs that have been disabled can create valid GEDCOM output files A valid GEDCOM file requires information about e Suppress warning when adding parents to a child the file s creator If you choose you may leave the information empty however none of Suppress warning when cancelling with changed data your exported GEDCOM files will be valid e Suppress warning about missing researcher when exporting to GEDCOM Enter your personal information in the corresponding text entry fields Although Gramps requests information about you this information is used only so that Gramps From Gramps The available text entry fields are e Name e Address e Locality e City State County e Country ZIP Postal Code e Phone Email 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 C
15. are classified by assigning tags to them So instead of having a disjoint N 1 classification a email can be in one and only one folder and a folder can contain many emails in gmail or thunderbird there is a N M classification a email can have several tags and a tag can be applied to several emails Likewise when you have a big tree you might want to make subsets of the tree and these subsets might be overlapping For example the subsets of your fathers family and your mothers family some subset of your family that emigrated to the USA or the fa mous people in the tree The idea is to assign a different tag to each subset FATHER MOTHER USA and FAMOUS for example Differences with markers Type Birth Name Tags Famous Father Mother USA Mother g s Sources Attributes Addresses E Description Type ID Date Birth E1656 21 jun 1854 Death E1657 28 jun 191 Burial E1658 1jul 1911 Vv With Martel Luella Jacques Marriage E2815 1 Apr 1875 Help cancel 4o e Markers are like the folders for emails A person can be given at most one marker Tags are thus like multiple valued markers Tags and Filters e Tags and filters both create subsets of the tree However they have practical differences in usage Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Navigation Filter ka Mame ID Gender any v Birth date Death date Event s Marker Lo Tag Note Famous F
16. city Aguadilla Church parish or N50 52 21 92 E124 52 21 92 has UTF 8 code i l The character for seconds can be either one double County State PR or two single quote Country USA zipjpostal code The letters N S W E can be placed before or after i DEG gt degree minutes seconds notation with 60 50454 21 92 p 124257271 92 Help cancel ITSO D ISO 6709 degree notation i e DD DDDD DDD DDDD i T L m mooo l Phone ISO DM ISO 6709 degree minutes notation Fig 5 19 Place editor i e DDMM MMM DDDMM MMM TSO DMS ISO 6709 degree minutes seconds notation To edit information about places switch to the Places View and select the desired entry i e DDMMSS SS DDDMMSS SS from the list of places Double click that entry or click the Edit button on the tool bar to bring up the following Place Editor dialog The second part of the window displays seven notebook tabs containing different cat egories 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 There are four fields 1 Place name the full name of this place 2 Latitude the position above equation of the place in decimal or degree notation Eg valid values are 12 0154 50 52 21 92 N N50 52 21 92 the window
17. 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 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 appropriate menu items will contain submenus list ing all spouses siblings children and parents of the corresponding person Advantages of using right click menus Direct access to spouse and siblings Complete lists of all member of all categories not only the preferred mem bers Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Navigation 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 re gardless of which view you are using at the moment To set the Home person first navigate to that person using any method you like
18. m Birth 21 6 1855 in Great Falls MT Given Lewis Anderson Call Name a Relationships Death 28 6 1911 in Twin Falls ID 56 years 7 days Title Suffix Type Birth Name v QB Families vy Parents F18 jy General Cs Pedigree Father Garner Robert W Gender male v ID 144 Marker v ig Events b 24 4 1827 d 3 2 1916 Mother Zielinski Phoebe Emily 9 __ W PA Sources 23 Events Names Sources E Attributes Addresses 2 Notes Gallery 2 Internet Associations LDS amp References b 12 4 1827 d 7 3 1882 Type Description ID Date Place Role J Q Places gt Siblings 11 siblings Birth E1656 21 6 1855 Great Falls MT Primary B media 2 aeoe Biy Martel Luella jacques 8 children Death E1657 28 6 1911 Twin Falls ID Primary fa B repositories Burial E1658 1 7 1911 Twin Falls ID Primary Ei eee 144 Garner Lewis Anderson There are two primary ways to specify relationships between people using the Re lationships View and using the Edit Family dialog fromthe Fam e Qcancel ily List View The Family List is usually used to build all the relation ships within a single family atatime The Relationships Viewis usually used There are multiple ways to add a person to the database We will cover some of 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 see side nofilt fig click the Toolba
19. 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 People are displayed according to the name format given in the Preferences the default Here you can make sure this person is displayed according to a custom name format extra formats can be set in the Preferences e The Sort as and Display as determine the manner in which the name appears in the People View and in the reports The sort as allows you to override the name pattern set in the Gramps preferences in sorting of the name For example you suddenly have a branch of Swedish names with given and patronymic but the rest of your database sorts names on Family name Given You can indicate here to sort this name always as Patronymic Given Here you can make sure this person is sorted according to a custom name format extra formats can be set in the Preferences From Gramps The display as allows you to say how the name is displayed You might for example want to sort a name in a specific manner but still have the display of the name as set in your preferences The Person Tree view groups people under the primary surname You can override this by setting here a group value You will be asked if
20. people For example you can choose to substitute the word Living for the first name see your settings you can exclude notes and you can exclude sources for living people Do not include not related records Check this box to prevent not related records from being included in the exported file 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 GeneWeb Exporting to GeneWeb will save a copy of your data into a popular web genealogy format To find out more about GeneWeb and its format visit http cristal inria fr ddr GeneWeb en vCalendar and vCard Exporting to vCalendar or vCard will save information in a format used in many calendaring and addressbook applications sometimes called PIM for Personal Information Manager GRAMPS CSV Spreadsheet format Allows exporting and importing a subset of your GRAMPS data in a simple spreadsheet format See CSV Import and Export for more information Also see Export Display Moving a Gramps 2 2 databases to Gramps 3 x There are two ways of moving your Gramps data from version 2 2 to version 3 x either directly importing your version 2 2 grdb file or by exporting to Gramps XML format first Because of complexity in the way that version 2 2 stores data exporting to Gramps XML is usu
21. that group the information into Jump to navigation search subcategories For example the Edit Person dialog has notebook tabs for subcategories The previous section offered you a quick overview of how to enter and edit data in such as Events Attributes Addresses and Notes among others Gramps This section continues that discussion in much greater detail Add Remove and Edit buttons In most cases Gramps uses a to correspond to Special copyright notice All edits to this page need to be under two different copyright licenses innon GNU Free Documentation License 1 2 see wiki copyright eum 2 E correspond to SEEN and an GPL see manual copyright af icon of a pen ona sheet of paper todenote Edit We These licenses allow the Gramps project to maximally use this wiki manual as m will continue referring to the latter as the Edit free content in future Gramps versions If you do not agree with this dual li J button while using and to denote the two for cense then do not edit this page You may only link to other pages within the wiki which fall only under the GFDL license via external links using the syn mer buttons tax http www gramps project org not via internal links Also only use the known conventions Details 1 Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Entering and Editing Data Detailed part 1 Learn how to add persons dates families and relationships to Gramps Previous Index Next oe a 2 Gramp
22. 1776 Ward Lucinda b September 14 1807 d February 13 1886 p Clore Hans Martin b about 1665 d estimated about 177 Clore Hans Michael b 1690 d estimated about 1600 L Rarbara Maria b estimated about 1677 d estimated abo Glore Peter b 1726 d estimated about 16836 parva Anna Barbara Maria b estimated about 1713 d estim Glore Adam b 1746 d estimated about 16586 Lyager Barbara b September 7 1730 d estimated about 1640 Glore Eleanor b February 10 1781 d October 26 1850 Lchrisler Margaret b 1746 d estimated about 16586 gt Help Close Fig 7 12 Pedigree Gramplet 12 From Gramps The Pedigree gramplet shows a compressed view of the active person s direct ancestors It defaults to going back 100 generations The names can be clicked to change the active person double clicked or right click to edit the person This Gramplet also shows at the bottom of the gramplet the number of people per generation Double click the Gen eration number to see the matching individuals In Gramps 3 3 you can now see birth and death dates next to a person s name Relatives Gramplet 8 Malengier test GRAMPS Family Tees Edit View Go Bookmarks Reports Tools Windows Help oOr DEM CD Ea CE ReSEES CramplereGRAN o x Relatives Active person Malengier Willy 1 Partner Delanote Rosa Maria Parents Malengier Prosper 1911 06 23 2002 05 29 egon Le N DE
23. 1951 10 2 1952 EA Notes Garner Marauarite 1653 female b 144 Garner Lewis Anderson 2132 2132 Fig 2 2 Sidebar view mode Gramps comes with number of different Categories as standard New Categories may be made with plugins you download 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 see Fig 2 2 When you are in the Sidebar Viewing Mode you can select the Category you want by clicking one of the sidebar icons Or you can also use the keyboard shorts CTRL P and CTRL N go to previous or next category As mentioned a category can contain different ways of presenting the data called a View If there are several views you can switch between the views on the toolbar as each view will have an icon button You can also switch via the menu View or by press ing CTRL lt number gt where lt number gt is the view you want in this category Gramplets Category This contains the Gramplet View which shows a number of widgets called Gramplets that can help you in your research Two Gramplets are shown on start up the Welcome and Top Surname Gramplets By right clicking on the Gramplet View a popup comes up with the possibility of adding other Gramplets e Age on Date Gramplet see the people alive and their ages on a particular date Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Ma
24. Amutpwues Lucy ah Events Ericsdotter Marta 125 female vers 1775 Smith Ingeman a Estrada Mary Claire 1270 female Landry Maurice T Q Places nd Evans Christian Anne 1720 female 26 5 1969 E Geography Evans Heather Lee 1721 female 12 7 1977 A Sues Evans James Patrick 1717 male 2 10 1945 Stevenson Susan Evans Michael Patrick 1719 male 5 3 1973 a Repositories Evans m Maryjane 1716 male Rhodes Mary Jane BB Media Evans Patricia Kay 1718 female 19 1 1976 Farmer Anna Marie 11294 female 1786 ut Dub Jacob Z Notes Farmer Benjamin H 186 male 3 1 1812 13 8 1873 Mills Isabella Web Farmer Caroline 11283 female 1818 Shelton Peter Farmer Catharine 11302 female 1798 Ford Samuel Farmer Cyrus Melville 1364 male 27 5 1855 11294 Farmer Anna Marie People 2132 2132 Fig People ListView 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 List displays 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 from the menu View gt Configure View or click on toolbar Configure button and then 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 drag and drop Once you have made the changes you want click OK to exit t
25. Currently only People Quick Views can be run You can run any of the Quick Views for a person You can change the options by clicking the Option button top left hand button of the Gramplet which will detach the gramplet and bring it up an a window Select Op tions onthe top row and a list of options will appear Press Save to apply the changes to the Quick View You may then close the window to reattach the gramplet Currently the Quick View Gramplet doesn t remember which Quick View between Gramps sessions so you ll have to reselect it when you restart Gramps This will be fixed in an upcoming version of Gramps From Gramps Records Gramplet B bd Records Youngest living person 1 Smith Amber Marie 10 years 9 months 6 days 2 Smith Mason Michael 12 years 6 months 22 days 3 Smith Lars Peter 17 years 4 months 2 days Oldest living person 1 Smith Hanna 187 years 11 months 20 days 2 Smith Ingeman 182 years 11 months 20 days 3 Smith Emil 148 years 3 months 21 days Person died at youngest age 1 Smith Hjalmar 1 year 7 months 25 days 2 Smith Magnes 51 years 4 months 14 days 3 Smith Carl Emil 59 years 1 month 8 days Person died at oldest age 1 Hansdotter Anna 80 years 11 months 27 days 2 Smith Hjalmar 80 years 2 months 19 days 3 Jones Lillie Harriet 80 years 1 month 24 days Person married at youngest age 1 Horne Darcy 20 years 10 days 2 Perkins Alice P
26. Delete Deletes the selected list item From Gramps People View bindings Key Function Enter Expands and hides entries of the selected surname Editor Tab bindings These bindings work on the tab pages of the editors so not on the labels of the tabs press tab on label to move to tabpage content Key Enter Insert Delete Ctrl O ALT lt Left ar row ALT Right ar row Mouse Key Function Same action as the Edit button when that button is pre sent Same action as the Add button when that button is pre sent Same action as the Remove button when that button is present Same action as the Share button when that button is present Change tabpage to the tabpage to the left Change tabpage to the tabpage to the right Function Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Keybindings Right Call up context popu click i nee Double oe Same action as the Edit button when that button is present Middle Common action that is not the same as Edit button Eg on Family click Editor Child tab edit child Handy Shortcuts Key Function F11 Maximises Gramps to use the Full screen Previous Index Next Free FDL FREE DOL LICENSE Poreivied P BRE Mediawiki This page was last modified on 26 October 2011 at 12 56 This page has been accessed 747 times Content is available under GNU Free Documentation License 1 2 Privacy policy About Gramps Disclaimers From G
27. Edit View Go Bookmarks Reports Tools Help E ele 8 4 e ales E Gramplets Name contains z Q Rechercher d Effacer People Name v Gender Birth Date Death Date Spouse Gi Relationships gt Garrett b Garza Families b Gauthier fE Ancestry b George Events gt Gibbs b Gibson Qa Places D Gil EJ Geography b Gilbert p Gill 4 Sources b Girard Repositories gt Glover b Gomez Media D Gonzales Z Notes b Gonzalez x b Gonz lez Lay Web b Goodman b Goodwin 144 Garmer Lewis Anderson People Tree View 2132 2132 Fig People TreeView default Configuration The People View lists the people stored in the database See Fig People ListView Peo ple are grouped according to their family names To the left of each family name is typ ically either an arrow or some other type of indicator eg Clicking it once will reveal Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Main Window Family tree Gramps Family Trees Edit View Go Bookmarks Reports Tools Help e 8 8 a4 B E G E Gramplets Name contains v Q Rechercher d Effacer meals Name v ID Gender Birth Date Death Date Spouse 5 3 Danm mrargarce rary r30 remarc Sunmmimgnan rer ar amp paanonenps Edwards Lucy 1105 female 17 1 1799 2 4 1879 Garner Joseph Riley Thomas amp Families Elliott Lodowick 11168 male Kosganes Sarah Ellis Margaret Steel 11595 female Benson Walter ul E Ancestry A Erickson Charles 11182 male
28. Free FDL FREE DOC LICENSE ORI fecia MediaWiki Index Next This page was last modified on 26 October 2011 at 22 05 This page has been accessed 1 201 times Content is available under GNU Free Documentation License 1 2 Privacy policy About Gramps Disclaimers From Gramps Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Plugin Manager Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Plugin Manager From Gramps Jump to navigation search Special copyright notice All edits to this page need to be under two different copyright licenses GNU Free Documentation License 1 2 see wiki copyright GPL see manual copyright These licenses allow the Gramps project to maximally use this wiki manual as free content in future Gramps versions If you do not agree with this dual li cense then do not edit this page You may only link to other pages within the wiki which fall only under the GFDL license via external links using the syn tax http www gramps project org not via internal links Also only use the known conventions Previous Index Next The Plugin Manager is available from the menu Help gt Plugin Manager Many of the fea tures of the Plugin Manager are intended for developers and the dialogues described below are those seen by developers The features for normal users are noted below where they are different Gramps detects whether it is being run in User mode or Developer mode by the op timise flag python 0 Gramps Dy See Debugging GRAMPS Gr
29. Lucinda Lynn M Magdalena Magdalene Ma rga ret Maria Martha Ma ry Matilda Matthew Michael Mildred Nancy Oscar Paul Peter Phillip Rebecca Richard Robert Samuel SaraN sr stanley Stephen Susan Susannah Thomas Unknown w Wi iam nal Close Help Fig 7 11 Given Name Cloud Gramplet Like the Surname Cloud Gramplet the Given Name Cloud gramplet shows the top most popular given names in your family tree The size of the name indicates how popular it is Mouse over the name to see the exact count and the percent of people in the family tree that have that name The gramplet splits up given names into words broken up by spaces For example Sarah Elizabeth would appear under both Sarah and Elizabeth Double click on the given name to bring up a Quick View of all of the matching peo ple Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Gramplets Quick View Gramplet paot This page s factual accuracy may be compromised due to out of date information Please help improve the Gramps Wiki as a useful resource by updating it Quick View Gramplet GRAMPS Quick View gt Options Relationships of Thurman Damaris to Blank Douglas Scott 1 third great granduncle aunt Detailed path from Thurman Damaris to common ancestor Name Common ancestor Parent Birth Family 4 wv X Close uel p Fig 7 13 Quick View Gramplet The Quick View gramplet allows you to run a Quick View it updates as you move from person to person
30. Meinen Trevor Rhodes e Wayne Bergeron e Xing Wang e Yaakov Selkowitz If you know of somebody else who should be listed here please let us know To find more information about Gramps please visit the Gramps Project Web page 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 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 or in the file COPYING included with the source code of this program Previous Index Next GNU FDL FREE DOC LICENSE Premed P E MediaWiki This page was last modified on 26 October 2011 at 13 00 This page has been accessed 363 times Content is available under GNU Free Documentation License 1 2 Privacy policy About Gramps Disclaimers
31. Person The form is generation x has y individuals z Place Report The Place Report produces a report according to places selected by the user It will list related person and event to the selected place Records Report Records Report shows a number of interesting records mostly age related in your data base like oldest living person youngest mother etc Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Reports Summary of the Database The Summary of the Database displays the overall statistics concerning number of indi viduals of each gender various incomplete entries statistics as well as family and media statistics Web Pages and Quick Reports Web Pages Narrated Web Site One of the reports in this category is the Narrated Web Site report It generates a web site that is a set of linked web pages for a set of selected individuals Web Calendar Web Calendar Quick Reports Quick reports are reports that are available in the context menu s of person family They are easy to make by users even with limited coding knowledge Previous Index Next Free FDL FREE Dot LICENSE Poem EF ES Mediawiki This page was last modified on 26 October 2011 at 08 43 This page has been accessed 1 579 times Content is available under GNU Free Documentation License 1 2 Privacy policy About Gramps Disclaimers From Gramps Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Tools From Gramps Jump to navigation search This chapte
32. Type and Marker The Type can be amongst others Event Note Address Note Source text Place Note Double clicking on a Note in the list will bring up a window where you can edit the Note You can change fonts font color and background color A spellchecker is available for English and your local language From Gramps Family Tree IT GRAMPS Family Trees Edit View Bookmarks Reports Tools Help n a os T 2 Family Trees Clipboard Reports Tools Add Edit Remove People Preview ID Type Marker Jise Gj Relationships 1855 06 25 I baptized on June the second Lewis An NO019 Transcript Pi 1855 06 25 line 1 fac secunda Junij Baptiza line 2 t N0018 Source text amp Families ee we Ask librarian for key to the microfilm closet of Great N0011 Repository Cs Pedigree BIOGRAPHY Hjalmar sailed from Copenhagen Den N0003 Person Note 7 a BIOGRAPHY Martin was listed as being a Husman N0002 Person Note IE Events _ But Aunt Martha still keeps the original N0004 Source Note PR Sources Courtesy of pyschoanalyze pinhead from Emacs I N0014 Attribute Note Q a GRAMPS aid to look for its tree to him of family It all N0015 Family Note aces His name is my name too N0016 Source Note Media How did he die We need to find out Perhaps we fin N0012 Event Note ae Names can notes too This is a note for the alterna N0007 Name Note Repositorie
33. Wiki Manual Plugin Manager Install Addons Plugin Manager Gramps Registered Plugins Loa Install Addons Install Addons Addon Name Type Refresh Addon List Ed Close Reload Here you will initially see an empty list By clicking the Refresh Addon List button Gramps will fetch the listed third party plugins known as Addons listed at 3 3 Addons You may wish to refresh this list every once in a while to see the latest Addons Also you can enter an Addon s URL or path to a filename in the Path to addon to load the Addon An addon is a packaged set of files made to run in this version of Gramps The addon package may end in addon tgz or zip You cannot install a py file directly but will need to install the gpr py and py files by having access them in a package For details on creating an Addon see Addons Development From Gramps Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Plugin Manager E Plugin Manager Gramps After refreshing the addon list you may also click on a specific Addon listed This will Registered Plugins Install Addons place the URL of the add in the Path to addon Then you can select Install Addon to Description download and install the selected Addon Graph View Experimental View A view that displays a descendar You may also select Install All Addons This will go through the list and download ExportRaw Exporter A GRAMPS exporter that will dum or up dat e all of the listed Addons GRAM
34. Ww Identity invalid dates Her Fig 4 11 Verify the Data e maximum age 95 e minimum age to marry 16 e maximum age to marry 60 e maximum spouses for a person 4 e maximum number of consecutive years of widowhood before next marriage 30 e maximum age for an unmarried person 99 There is a check box estimate missing dates This causes the tool to accept a baptism date if a birth date is not known and to accept a burial date if a death date is not known In addition starting in Gramps version 3 3 0 it also causes the tool to accept inexact From Gramps dates i e any legal Gramps date which is not a fully specified one with an explicit day and month and year Women e minimum age to bear a child 16 e maximum age to bear a child 51 e maximum number of children 15 e Men e minimum age to father a child 18 e maximum age to father a child 65 e maximum number of children 15 e Families e maximum husband wife age difference 41 e maximum number of years between children 11 maximum span of years for all children 32 If you are OK with the criteria click the Run button or hit lt Alt R gt and you will be presented witha Database Verification Results window Depending on your criteria and your data a list will be shown Some possibilities of findings are listed below But there are others e Disconnected individuals ones with no par
35. active person which will then change the Attributes Gramplet and double click the Quick View entry to bring up the Edit Person dialog window Descendant Gramplet The Descendent gramplet shows the direct descendants of the active person From Gramps Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Gramplets Attributes Gramplet GRAMPS Descendants Gramplet GRAMPS Descendants Attributes Descendants of McKinney William Van Hook Sr Active person Blank George William 1 McKinney William Van Hook Sr b October 18 1813 Pu sp Cooper Mary Ann b August 25 1816 Pulaski Co K 2 McKinney Unknown b about 1834 Indiana 2 McKinney George Harvey Sr b April 15 1835 Rush b 2 McKinney Asa Emanual b March 10 1837 Sugar Cre sp Thurman Lydia Ann b July 17 1838 Sugar Creek 3 McKinney Harvey Judson b September 15 1870 sp Power Clara Genilan b October 14 1874 Clint 4 McKinney Van Franklin b March 7 1895 Clinto 4 Mckinney Lena Fern b April 14 1897 Clinton 4 Mckinney Giles Power b December 1 1898 Su 4 McKinney Blanche b August 6 1902 Sugar Cre oS o McKinney James Crow b February 28 1839 Clinton Help p4 Close McKinney Nancy Ann b June 30 1841 Clinton Co II McKinney Angelina b August 3 1843 Clinton Co Ih McKinney William Van Hook Jr b June 30 1846 Clin Fig 7 6 Attributes Gramplet McKinney John Wilkinson b November 24 1848
36. aie i D Harie ScratchPad Reperts Toals Edwards Lucy F Sources 8 1 17 1799 4 4 2 1879 i i Places Media ii Repositories Daniels Phoebe E about 9 0 1784 i 3 9 1864 r i l a 44 Garer Lewis Anderson Fig 2 10 Pedigree view 1 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 informa tion 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 par enthood guardianship etc To the left of the Active Person is a left arrow button If the Active Person has chil dren clicking this button expands a list of the Active Person s children Selecting one of the children makes that child the Active Person Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Main Window Configure Ancestry Pedigree Gramps Layout kT Show images amp Show marriage data Ej Show unknown people Tree style Standard 7 Tree direction Vertical bottom to top z M Tree size 9 Fig 2 11 Pedigree view layout The appearance of the children s names in the menu differentiates the dead ends of the tree from the continuing branches Children who have children themselves appear in the men
37. also hide the toolbar entirely by going to the menu View gt Toolbar From Gramps Display area The area in the center of the Gramps window is the display area What it displays depends on the currently selected View We will discuss Views in detail below Bottombar The bottombar is located below the display area e Sidebar The sidebar is located to the right of the display area passasi This page s factual accuracy may be compromised due to out of date information Please help improve the Gramps Wiki as a useful resource by updating it TODO Need to update this content eg fig 2 1 again The Bottombar and the Sidebar allow gramplets to be displayed alongside a view De tails to be provided based e g on GEPS_019 _Improved_Sidebar_and_Split_Views and Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual What s new GrampsBar and with references to Filters Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Filters and Gramps_3 3_Wiki_Manual_ _Gram plets Sidebar_and_bottombar The Navigator Toolbar Sidebar and Bottombar can be individually turned on or off by options in menu View If the Sidebar is not displayed thenthe Search bar is displayed instead The different Categories Genealogical information is very broad and can be extremely detailed Displaying it pos es a challenge that Gramps takes on by dividing and organizing the information into a series of Categories each with their own Views Each View displays a portion of the to tal information selected a
38. as to professionally aa cada The Sources tab allows you to view and document the sources for the Thanks to the Mission Statement Generator from http ieva dilbert cor information you collect Flowed Formatted These might be general sources that do not describe a specific event but which X Cancel 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 Fig 5 5 Notes o this assumption The Notes tab provides a place to record various items about the person that do not fit neatly into other categories as well as text excerpts you want to add to the family tree You can share notes between different records in Gramps The iconbar in this tabpage offers the usual buttons add a note select an existing note to add edit a selected note remove a note and reorder buttons to change the order of the notes 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 If you edit a note you obtain the Note Editor sources not specifically connected to any other data e Sources From Gramps Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Entering and editing data detailed part 1 The central part displays the list of
39. be specified for regular dates After the quality should appear the type Ifthe type is before after or about youscan specify the type by writing before after or about If the type is a range write 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 Calendars Alternate calendars are calendars other than the Gregorian calendar Currently Gramps supports Hebrew French Republican Julian Islamic Persian and Swedish al ternate calendars To specify the calendar other than the default Gregorian append the name of the calendar to the date string e g January 9 1905 julian or use the drop down menu Swedish calender The Swedish king Karl XII decided that Sweden should start using the Gregorian calendar However it was planned to take place gradually by skipping 11 leap days starting 1700 02 29 and end by 1744 So 1700 02 28 was followed by 1700 03 01 This took place during the Great Nordic War and the leap days were kept 1704 and 1708 In January 1711 the same king decided that Sweden should return to the Julian Calender by 1712 03 01 In order to be in phase an extra day was inserted on 1712 02 30 And that was the end of the Swedish Calendar Sweden c
40. by either adding new people as the parents or selecting existing people as the parents Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Entering and editing data brief Warning If you create a new family and select parents that are al f ready in an existing family Gramps will issue a warning message If you proceed by saving the new family you will have a duplicate family VWiarnng 1 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 farnily CES You can also specify the parents of a person in the Family List View If the family already exists click on the Toolbar Edit button 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 From Gramps To specify children Child Reterence Editor GRAMPS Garner Raymond E Relationship to Eather e Sources Note ID Title Author Page id Relationship to Mother Adopted Adding children to a relationship is done through a similar procedure From the Re lationships Vieworthe 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
41. category includes the following rules that match people based on their descendant relations to other people e Isa descendant of This rule matches people who are descendants of the specified person The Inclusive 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 e Is a descendant of person at least N generations away This rule matches people who are descendants 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 grandchildren great grandchildren etc but not the children of the specified person Is a descendant of person not more than N generations away This rule matches people who are descendants 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 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 selec
42. data detailed part 1 remove an address record from the database Note thatthe Edit and Edie Person CRAMPS buttons become available only when an address is selected from the list ee OD If you edit an address the Address Editor opens fon Otis Given Lewis Anderson Call Name Some reports allow you to restrict data on living people In particular that i Title Type Birth Name option will omit their addresses General Gender male Marker a e Notes Edit Person GHAMES E Events Names Sources _ Attributes Addresses E Note amp Gallery 2 Internet Associations Lbs ID Tithe Author Page da E Prefered name S0003 Import from test ged Family Gamer Prefix Given Lewis Andersom Call Name Title Type Birth Name General Gender male Di Marker Cancel Baw E Events Names E Sources Attributes We have committed to synergistically disseminate resource leveling methods of empowerment to set us apart from the competition Wa Fig 5 6 Sources envision to globally integrate inexpensive paradigms and professionally engineer timely technology while promoting personal employes g gt 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 ta dramatically maintain value added services as well
43. display the Edit Person dialog allowing you to enter a new person Clicking onthe 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 If you wish to change the order of the children in the family use the arrows or the drag and drop functionon Family Editor Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Entering and editing data brief Adding photos and other media objects aoaaa This page s factual accuracy may be compromised due to out of date information Please help improve the Gramps Wiki as a useful resource by updating it You can add photos and other media objects to individual people 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 mainwin fig select a person and then click the Edit icon on the toolbar This will bring up the Edit Person dialog edit pers fig Next select the Gallery tab and click the buttontocallupthe 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 a
44. 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 Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Main Window Repositories Category Family Iree 1 GRAMPS eal Eea Family Trees Edit View Bookmarks Reports Tools Help C v z axi T Ed Family Trees Clipboard Reports Tools Add Edit Remove E Gramplets Name contains v Q End 4 Clear 8 People Name ID Type Home URL Street as Relationships Aunt Martha s Attic R0001 Collection http library gramps project org 123 Main St A New York Public Library R0000 Library 5th Ave at 4 zo Families ETE Public Library Great Falls R0002 Library http great falls org Bookstore st Ce Pedigree 2 Events PR Sources R Places Media Repositories Notes E 3 3 16 1180 Garner Kathryn Mary 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 Notes Category A Note is pure text as stored in the other objects The functionality of the notes View is similar to the other views The view lists all Notes storedinthe Family Tree Using the menu View gt Configure View you open the Column Editor and you can change the displayed columns The possibilities are Preview ID
45. e 1719 20 e 1799 800 These slash years can appear anywhere in a date that a regular year can appear Dual dated dates are currently represented in the Julian calendar so their month and day will be the same as that in the textual representation Alternate new year day With dual dated dates and other dates you may know that the new year was cel ebrated on a day other than January 1 To indicate this in Gramps put the month day code in parentheses after the calendar if one For example Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Entering and editing data detailed part 1 e Jan 20 1865 Mar25 e Jan 20 1750 JJulian Mar1 Feb 23 1710 1 Mar25 To indicate the beginning of a year that is different from that of January 1 you use the following codes e jani e Marl e Mar25 Sepl You can put that as the only item in parenthesis or right after a calendar name comma and no space Note that if new year s day is not Jan 1 then January will come after December that year Dates with new year day codes will be sorted appropriately Date validity indicators Gramps uses a date validator While partial dates do not uniquely define the day they allow at least for some type of comparisons between the dates Red cross 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 yo
46. field after the selection was made e People with incomplete names e People with events matching the lt event filter gt Matches people with firstname or lastname missing Matches persons who have events that match a certain event filter Values l a Event filter name e People with records containing lt substring gt Matches people whose records contain text matching a substring Values f Substring Case Sensitive or not Regular Expression matching or not Person filters Has Address e People with the lt name gt This rule matches people with a personal address Matches people with a specied partial name Values Given Name Family Name Suffix Title Prefix Patronymic Call Name o e Has Association i People with the source This rule matches people with a personal association Matches people who have a particular source values Source ID Has Complete Record This rule matches all people whose records are marked as complete Currently the completeness of personal information is marked manually in the Edit Person dialog e People with the family lt attribute gt Matches people with the family attribute of a particular value Values Family Attribute Identification Number Age e Has Name 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 Separate
47. format is available for import and export When not specified it can be guessed if the filename ends with gpkg This creates a zip package with your data as xml and all your media files included Avail abl e opti ons grdb pre Gramps 3 x database T his format is available for import to support the old file format of Gramps Everything in the grdb file is imported When not This section provides the reference list of all command line options available in Gramps specified it can be guessed if the filename ends with grdb If you want to know more than just a list of options see next sections Operation and burn GNOME iso burning export only available on GNOME where burn protocol Examples A list is also available on this page exists List options Reduced family tree support These formats contain most but not all data that can be created in Gramps l print a list of known family trees e ged GEDCOM format This format is available for import and export When not L print a detailed list of known family trees specified it can be guessed if the filename ends with ged From Gramps e gw GeneWeb file This format is available for import and export When not specified it can be guessed if the filename ends with gw Subset of your data These formats contain a specific subset of your data e csv Comma Separated Value This format is available for import and export Be careful however import must be as values created by the export fun
48. from the command line Configuration config option The option takes three forms the following examples except 3 2 use behavior database path as the configuration variable to change 1 See all config values 5 or show 2 See a value config behavior database path or c behavior database path 3 Set a value config behavior database path media mydb or c behavior database path media mydb Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Command Line 3 1 Set a value to its default config behavior database path DEFAULT or c behavior database path DEFAULT 3 2 Set more than one value config behavior use tips False config behavior autoload True OE c behavior use tips False c behavior autoload True When all configuration variable s are set Gramps will start with these new values Operation If the first argument on the command line does not start with a dash i e no flag Gramps will attempt to open the file with the name given by the first argument and start an interactive session ignoring the rest of the command line arguments 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 Only one file can be opened in a single invocation of paaa Gramps If you need to get data from multiple sources use the importing options by using flag With or without the O From Gramps flag
49. 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 How many people can Gramps database handle See above Again this is dependent on how much memory you have see GRAMPS Per formance From Gramps My database is really big Is there a way around loading all the data into memory Starting with 2 0 0 release Gramps no longer loads all data into memory which allows it to work with a much larger database than before The fileformat used is grdb which means Gramps database Can I run Gramps from a database on a NFS share Yes you can What does portable mean A Gramps 3 database and any grdb file is very dependent on the software versions that created it For example you can t just move your Gramps data in these formats to a different operating system or even a different version of an operating system and ex pect that you will be able to read your data The data is not portable Therefore you can t just rely on backups of these formats but you should also occasionally export into a format that is portable There are two possible portable formats GEDCOM and Gramps XML gramps or gpkg But only Gramps XML is recommended as it faithfully saves all of your data Why is the database format GRDB not por
50. id i Path homejjerome gramps3 example gramps O5 jpg Type image JPEG Note Any changes in the shared event information will be reflected in the ewent itself for all participants in the ewent A Fig 5 18 Media Object references e Region corners X1 x2 yl y2 The region part allows to select a specific region on the Media Object You can use the mouse cursor on the picture to select a region or use these spinbuttons to set the top left and bottom right corner of the referenced region Point 0 0 is the top left cor ner of the picture and 100 100 the bottom right corner e Privacy The Privacy button lets you mark whether or not the record is considered pri vate Check the Private record box to markthis record as private From Gramps Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Entering and editing data detailed part 2 Editing information about places Place Aguadilla PR GRAMPS x Supported longitude latitude formats ENEE When you create modify a place the possible formats used for longitude latitude are Latitude Longitude D D4 degree notation 4 decimals ID Poaz tsi Rs eg 12 0154 124 3647 Ta aes 2 ee D De gt degree notation 8 decimals precision like ISO DM Location Alternate Locations Sources Notes Gallery Internet References eg 12 01543265 124 36473268 _ _ DEG degree minutes seconds notation Street o eg 50 52 21 92 N 124 52 21 92 E has UTF 8 code
51. is from the main person the more urgent the information is e g nephews are considered more urgent than uncles even though both have a distance of 3 because for nephews the common ancestor is father mother while for uncles the common ancestor is grandfather grandmother e Marriage data and personal data of the spouse is slightly less urgent than personal data of the directly related person e Half brothers are less urgent than brothers 10 Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Gramplets Sidebar and bottombar passasi This page s factual accuracy may be compromised z due to out of date information Please help improve the Gramps Wiki as a useful resource by updating it Since Gramps 3 3 we have common and specific gramplets according active view navi gation category e Back references gramplets are like the references tab on object Editor Filter gramplet is like the previous filter sidebar e Common models for Notes Gallery Sources Events e Children gramplet on Person views also ancestry category and relations family view Person Attributes Gramplet The Attributes gramplet shows all of the attributes for the current active person Dou ble click on the name of the attribute and you will run a Quick View that shows all of the people that have that attribute and the values for it You can sort the Quick View by the attribute value by clicking on the column name In the Quick View highlight the entry to change the
52. of individ uals change dynamically Surname Cloud Gramplet The surname cloud gramplet shows the top 100 by default used surnames The name font size is proportional to the amount of people with the same name Double click a surname to run the Same Surnames Quick View This will open the Quick View window where you can find all people with a match ing or alternate name Person birth date and name type are given If you mouse over the name you see the percentage of occurrence and total counts Change the number of names displayed by editing this section in gramps gram plets ini From Gramps i X Surname Cloud Bamford Barnhart Baumann Beeson B la nN K Blankenship Bratton Brubaker Chenouth Chenoweth cConradt Cooper Diehimann Dorrell Flora Flory Foltz Furnas Godby Goings Grube Hannel Hend ricks Hooser jJoggerst Kiefer KINO Klukowski Marquis McKinney miter nat Naff oser Peters Pierson Rector Reed Sanders Scircle Scott Sebring Sommer Sparks Stover Thompson Thurman Unknown Vonnegut Wade 7 Fig 7 18 Surname Cloud TODO Gramplet The TODO gramplet is free form text area You can use this area to put some notes remarks things you should to get your research going There are several other TODO programs e g Tomboy e a but this Gramplet is useful as the information stays within Gramps Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Gramplets X TODO List Items to check Smith Edwin birth date Jones Martha
53. on Windows Yes many people use it on Windows Probably the easiest thing is to Download the GrampsAlIO software bundle for Windows as that is an all in one package of Gramps with the other programs it needs and so may be installed very trivially We will do our best to solve Windows related problems See here See GRAMPS and Windows for a summary of hints to use Gramps on a Windows PC Also the Linux Genealogy CD can function as a live CD that you boot directly from If you have a CD DVD ROM Drive You can then run Linux and Gramps off the CD even if your computer is entirely Windows Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual FAQ Does Gramps work on the Mac Yes Mac is a community supported platform for Gramps See here What are the Minimum Specs to run Gramps We would recommend at least an 800x600 video display For Gramps 3 3 the memory requirements have been reduced and Gramps can run quite efficiently on a 256MB sys tem holding considerably more people A system with 512MB should be able to hold around 200 000 people Disk space requirements for databases are however consider ably larger with a typical database being several megabytes in size For 120 000 people you must consider already 530Mb for the database Pictures are stored on disk separate ly so a large harddisk is necessary How do I upgrade Gramps GNU Linux operating systems will typically deal with upgrade issues for you If they do not then you need to ask users of
54. 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 corresponding Sources and Note buttons From Gramps 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 informa tion 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 Date types Dates in Gramps are classified according to the following types e 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 e Before A before date is one that can only be identified as occurring before a certain day month or year e After An after date is one that occurs after a certain day month or year e Range A range describes a time period during which the event occurred For example between January 1932 and March 1932 e Span A span describes a time period during which a condition existed For example from May 12 2000 to February 2 2002 Date formats and parsing rules Gramps recognizes dates entered in a variety of formats The default numeric for mat is that
55. relationship this person has to the Active Per son Filtering By default Gramps filters the displayed list to show on ly those people who could theoretically have a relation us ship with the Active Person That is Gramps only shows those people whose birth dates and death dates fit with a peop in 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 Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Entering and editing data brief To search a person on dialog selector Remember that you can get an entry on the list by typing the first letter on your keyboard see Finding records Select Mother GRAMPS x Select Mother gt Name ID Birth date I gt Abbott gt Adams gt Adkins gt Aguilar v Alexander Alexander Mary 1693 v Allen 1v Alonso Alonso Roisine 1826 1985 7v Alvarado v Alvarez LA a 1 O Show all X Cancel oK Fig 4 2 Selecting a person To edit an existing relationship fromthe Relationships View click onthe Edit button next to corresponding Family entry If there is more than one relation ship in the list you can select the spouse or partner you want by clicking the corre sponding Edit button next to the relationship To specify a new relationship inthe Family List View click onthe Add butt
56. start Gramps and how to get help when you need it Special copyright notice All edits to this page need to be under two different copyright licenses GNU Free Documentation License 1 2 see wiki copyright GPL see manual copyright These licenses allow the Gramps project to maximally use this wiki manual as free content in future Gramps versions If you do not agree with this dual li cense then do not edit this page You may only link to other pages within the wiki which fall only under the GFDL license via external links using the syn tax http www gramps project org not via internal links Also only use the known conventions Previous Index Next start Gramps If you installed Gramps via one of the installation packages an entry for Gramps will have been created in the Application menu In Linux Gramps is normally installed in the Office section soat Command line use Like many applications that started on Linux Gramps L allows command line operation allowing you to create reports do conversion without opening a window Command line use of Gramps can also help to fix prob lems as extra information is printed in the terminal window To start Gramps like this type in a terminal gramps and then pressing Enter For more information see the Command Line appendix Choosing a Family Tree If Gramps is started without a family tree selected the initial screen will have little functionalit
57. subsections describe the various possibilities and options nonan Additional Reports i Starting with Gramps version 3 3 a new system was im __ plemented to have even more reports available This system is controlled by the Plugin Manager The Plugin Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Reports Manager can get additional Addons for you Check the list of the available reports here Generating Reports This first subsection gives you some general remarks Substitution Values you can use some handy values in your reports Books The book report creates a single document containing a collection of graphical and tex tual reports Graphical Reports Graphical reports represent information in forms of charts and graphs Ancestor Tree The Ancestor Tree report generates the chart of people who are ancestors of the Active Person Calendar The Calendar report produces a calendar with birthdays and anniversaries on a page by month Descendant Tree The Descendant Tree report generates a graph of people who are descendants of the Active Person From Gramps Family Descendant Tree The Family Descendant Tree generates a graph of people who are descendants of the Active Family Fan Chart The Fan Chart report produces a chart resembling a fan with Active Person in the cen ter parents the semicircle next to it ans so on for a total of five generations Statistics Chart The Statistics Chart report can collect and displ
58. text entry field allows stor ing an arbitrary text string along with the date Important comment about a date If you have an important comment to make about a date you are better off doing so in a Note that corre sponds 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 A 10 Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Entering and editing data detailed part 1 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 Editing information about relationships FLUA S S a E T ES Ea a a E res y ebe Father cp Mother d Name Smith Edwin Michael IC3a2b1 Name Adams Janice Ann 140 Birth 24 5 1961 Birth 26 8 1965 Death Death Relationship Information Type Married vi Marker vi ID F01 amp Children Events Sources EJ Attributes Notes Gallery LDS ID Name Gender Paternal Maternal Birth Date ch 1 141 Smith Amber Marie female Birth Birth 12 4 1998 2 142 Smith Mason Michael male Birth Birth 26 6 1996 3 E cancel 4 ox T Fig 5 13 Family editor Information about relationships is entered and edited through the Family Edi tor dialog This dialog may be invoked in
59. the right arrow button to the right of the spouse s parents box Alternatively right click into the spouse s par ents 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 se lect Make the selected child an Active Person item from the context menu In addition to this Gramps provides an extensive set of keyboard navigation op tions The detailed reference to the key bindings is found in the Appendix B Keybind ings reference From Gramps Using the Ancestry Views The Ancestry Category also allow you to move along the family tree The benefit of this method is that you can see more than one 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 Ancestry Views the display is re adjusted to show up to five generations starting from the newly selected Active Person When in the Ancestry Views you can easily navigate between the members of the dis played family tree as follows To make any displayed person the Active Person right click the corresponding box and choose the first entry in the context menu To make a child of the currently Active Person if any the Active Person click the
60. then decide if the information should be entered into your database You may also want to consider the effects of possible downtime of your site if you cannot afford yourself a premium webhosting service Reports Can Gramps print a genealogical tree for my family 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 descendants 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 From Gramps In what formats can Gramps output its reports Text reports are available in HTML PDF ODT LaTeX and RTF formats Graphical re ports charts and diagrams are available in PostScript PDF SVG ODS and GraphvViz formats How can I change the default language in reports The reports are in the language of your linux installation You can change it by in stalling extra language packs see Howto Change the language of reports Is Gramps compatible with the Internet Gramps can store web addresses and direct your browser to them It can import data that you download from the Internet It can e
61. to be used for the merged record then click OK Previous Index Next GNU FDL FREE DOC LICENSE Poneman Eh eed MediaWiki This page was last modified on 26 October 2011 at 22 04 This page has been accessed 1 180 times Content is available under GNU Free Documentation License 1 2 Privacy policy About Gramps Disclaimers From Gramps Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Navigation From Gramps Jump to navigation search 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 Special copyright notice All edits to this page need to be under two different copyright licenses GNU Free Documentation License 1 2 see wiki copyright GPL see manual copyright These licenses allow the Gramps project to maximally use this wiki manual as free content in future Gramps versions If you do not agree with this dual li cense then do not edit this page You may only link to other pages withi
62. values can be used for Given name People with unknown gender Family name Suffix and the Title The rule returns a match if and only if all Matches all people with unknown gender non empty values are partially matched by a person s name To use just one value leave the other values empty e People with the personal lt attribute gt Matches people with the personal attribute of a particular value Values Family Attribute Identification Number Age e People without a known birth date Matches people without a known birthdate e Is default person This rule matches the default home person From Gramps Isa female This rule matches any female person e Isamale This rule matches any male person e People probably alive 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 e People with incomplete names This rule matches all people with either given name or family name missing e People without a birth date This rule matches people missing birth date Event filters This category includes the following rules that match people based on their recorded events Has the birth 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 inse
63. viewing controls 1 Compare Individual Events 4 Export View 2 Interactive Descendant Browser 5 Modularity and plugins 2 Database Processing 3 Advanced manipulation of settings 1 Database Owner Information Name Format Editor 2 Extract Information from Names 13 Filters 3 Extract Place Data from a Place Title 1 Custom Filter Editor 4 Extract Event Descriptions from Event Data 2 Which filters in which view 5 Find Possible Duplicate People 3 General filters 6 Fix Capitalization of Family Names 1 Persons Relationship and Pedigree View 7 Rename Event Types 4 Person filters 8 Reorder GRAMPS ID 5 Event filters 9 Sort_Events 6 Family filters 3 Database Repair 7 Ancestral filters 1 Check and repair database 8 Descendant filters 2 Rebuild Reference Maps 9 Relationship filters 3 Rebuild Secondary Indices 10 Miscellaneous filters 4 Remove Unused Objects see also Tagging 4 Utilities ti Genarate Soundexeodes Appendix A Frequently Asked Questions i D ee oe Appendix B Keybindings reference 4 Relationship calculator Hepes ae 5 Verify the Data Common omc 12 Settings All List Views bindings 1 Preferences From Gramps People View bindings Editor Tab bindings Handy Shortcuts Appendix C Command line reference Available options Format options Opening options Import options Export options Action options List options Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Operation Examples Environment variable
64. 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 City 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 load ing button to attempt to display the place in a web browser The map service can be chosen from the drop down list under the black triangle to the right of the map button Your default web browser should open attempting to use either the longitude and latitude coordinates or the place name to display the location using the Google Maps Parish County From Gramps web site Different map services might have different requirements for the location de scription This feature is limited and may not always produce the results you desire PlaceTreeView and PlaceListView Family Tree Gramps fore Famity Trees Edit View Bookmarks Reports Tools Help B 8 G al JG EI Gramplets Place Name contains v Q Rechercher d Effacer seini Place Name e amp Relationsh
65. you want to group this person only or all people with this specific primary surname e The Date can provide information on the validity of this name use date spans as necessary The edit date icon opens the Date Editor Eg for a Married Name date the name is first used or marriage date Sources tab The Sources tab displays information about sources relevant to this name 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 name Note that the Edit and buttons become available only when a source reference is select ed from the list More info Source reference editor Note tab The Note tab displays any notes concerning the name To add a note or modify ex isting notes simply edit the text in the text entry field More info Note Editor Attributes Attributes are edited through the following Attribute Editor dialog 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 appropriate tab heading The bottom part has OK and Cancel buttons Clicking the OK button at any time will apply all Gramps 3 3 W
66. your prefered GNU Linux distribution The Windows port of Gramps needs to be updated manually oaaao This page s factual accuracy may be compromised z due to out of date information Please help improve the Gramps Wiki as a useful resource by updating it TODO Need to update this content To be written incomplete answer From Gramps Preferences Can I change the dates in reports to day month year Yes change in the preferences Edit gt Preferences the date for Gramps to the re quired format eg YYYY MM DD or day month year and make the report Your global date preferences will be used Collaboration Portability Is Gramps compatible with other genealogical software Gramps makes every effort to maintain compatibility with GEDCOM the general stan dard of recording genealogical information We have import and export filters that en able 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 Can Gramps read files created by other genealogy programs See above Can Gramps write files readable by other genea
67. 32 2132 posao This page s factual accuracy may be compromised due to out of date information Please help improve the Gramps Wiki as a useful resource by updating it TODO Need to update this content To be written Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Main Window Relationships Category i Family Iree 1 GRAMPS Pa fat x Family Tees Edit View Go Bookmarks Reports Tools Help os Zi amp we amp Family Trees Home Clipboard Reports Tools Edit Add Share Partner E cramplets Garner Lewis Anderson s gt a People ID 144 Birth 21 6 1855 in Great Falls MT amp Relationships Death 28 6 1911 in Twin Falls ID 56 years 7 days amp Families e v Parents F18 E 42 Pedigree i Father Garner Robert W d E Events b 24 4 1827 d 3 2 1916 A coirce Mother Zieli ski Phoebe Emily 9 Ed j b 12 4 1827 d 7 3 1882 Places gt Siblings 11 siblings BB media gt Family F17 Martel Luella Jacques 9 5 8 children Repositories EA Notes 144 Garner Lewis Anderson 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 by clicking the name of any person listed on the page Each name is actually a hypertext link similar to a web page The name o
68. Cli 2 McKinney Henry Clay b April 1851 Indiana McKinney Mary b about 1854 Indiana Social Security Number 304 12 7085 Calendar no Quick View GRAMPS People who have the Calendar Attribute Close There are 12 people with a matching attribute name Fig 7 9 Descendant Gramplet Person Calendar Sinclair Timothy Evan f i af EEEE The order of the spouses and children is that given in the Gramps editor To change SPEE Carol A the order of spouses click on Order on the Relationship view To change the order of anno aa sebsancnciesemsicceasacbesous E AEAEE children drag and drop them in the correct order in the Family edit window Lybrook Virginia Anne This gramplet is based on the Descendant Report available from the Textual Re cian ie ve T an The Descendant gramplet will update when you change the active person or change Ss EA family trees It does not update automatically for edits or additions because this report Vonneout Mark is time consuming to run Minimizing a gramplet will prevent it from updating Fig 7 7 Attributes Quick View 11 From Gramps Person details paoa This page s factual accuracy may be compromised due to out of date information Please help improve the Gramps Wiki as a useful resource by updating it Fan Chart Gramplet Fan Chart Gramplet GRAMPS Pan Chart TPF T Anra THU rrr r tr S FRI wae r
69. D 144 Marker 5 Events Names Sources attributes Addresses Note Gallery 9 Internet Name me Adkins john 553 Association Godfather M Cancel Box Fig 5 9 Associations 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 Use Events instead for relations connected to specific time frames or Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Entering and editing data detailed part 1 occasions Events can be shared between people each indicating their role in the event e LDS edit Person GHAMIPS Prefenred name Family Gamer Prefix Given Lewis Anderson Call Name Title Type Birth Name E3 Events Names E Sources Attributes Addresses a Note Gallery 2 Internet Associations LOS hype Date Status General Gender male Marker Temple Place Confirmation Completed Boise idaho M Cancel Fig 5 10 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
70. Double clicking an entry allows you to view and edit the corresponding record Editing information about notes Note tab The Note tab is the place for adding notes to one of your people sources etc The tab allows you to order your notes in the order you want to see them As on the other tabs you can add new notes share existing notes with the object you are working on and remove notes from this object this does not remove the note from the family tree It is present in the note view afterward Note editor When creating a new note or when editing an existing note the note editor comes up There are two tabs the Note tab and the References tab e Note tab The Note tab has the following elements e A toolbar to apply styles to your notes You can select and apply one of the toolbuttons or set the values as you want and start typing italic bold underline common functions known from text editors e Font selection a basic font selector showing all fonts on your system e Font size the size of the font you type Font color write the font in a certain color e Background color add a background color to the text you write e Clear markup This will remove all markup you have placed on the note From Gramps Note 2 References o B Sans 1657 07 02 line 1 fac secunda Junij Baptiza line 2 tus est petrus Leyns line 3 filius legitimus Guillielmus line 4 Leyns et Elisabetha op de v None line 5 Beke S
71. Free FDL FREE DOC LICENSE Wey Poem P BME Mediawiki This page was last modified on 30 October 2011 at 01 45 This page has been accessed 2 434 times Content is available under GNU Free Documentation License 1 2 Privacy policy About Gramps Disclaimers From Gramps Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Entering and editing data brief Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Entering and editing data brief From Gramps Jump to navigation search 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 data base and how to specify their family relationships A more detailed explanation will follow in the next chapter Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Entering and Editing Data De tailed Special copyright notice All edits to this page need to be under two different copyright licenses GNU Free Documentation License 1 2 see wiki copyright GPL see manual copyright These licenses allow the Gramps project to maximally use this wiki manual as _ free content in future Gramps versions If you do not agree with this dual li cense then do not edit this page You may only link to other pages within the wiki which fall only under the GFDL license via external links using the syn tax http www gramps project org not via internal links Also only use the known conventions Previous Index Next Introduction First let us identify the t
72. From Gramps Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual From Gramps a Table of Contents Jump to navigation search This is the wiki manual for Gramps version 3 3 All users are encouraged to edit this Preface manual to help improve its readability and usability Why use Gramps Special copyright notice All edits to this page need to be under two different Ty pographical conventions copyright licenses e GNU Free Documentation License 1 2 see wiki copyright 1 What s new e GPL see manual copyright 2 Getting started These licenses allow the Gramps project to maximally use this wiki manual as L Gieneeanins free content in future Gramps versions If you do not agree with this dual li P cense then do not edit this page You may only link to other pages within the 2 Choosing a Family Tree wiki which fall only under the GFDL license via external links using the syn 3 Tell me how to start right now tax http www gramps project org not via internal links 4 Obtaining Help Also only use the known conventions 3 Main Window 1 Introduction 2 The different Categories 3 Switching Views and Viewing Modes Previous Index Next A Cramiplets E 5 People Category 6 Relationships Category 7 Families Category anoa This page s factual accuracy may be compromised 8 Ancestry Category z due to out of date information Please help improve 9 Events Category the Gramps Wiki as a useful resource by updating it 10 Sources Ca
73. Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Entering and editing data detailed part 1 Edip Person GHAMPS remove an attribute record from the database Note that the Edit and buttons become available only when an attribute is selected from the list Prefered name Family Gamer Prefix If you edit an attribute the Attribute Editor opens Given Lewis Andersom Call Name ihle Type Birth Name General i OOOO Gedcom Gender male ID 144 Marker i Several predefined attributes refer to values present in the GEDCOM standard lt _ _ _ x Events Names E Sources Attributes Addresses O Note amp Gallery k Internet Associations LDS Type Value dls Mickname Big Louie Addresses Social Security Number 123 456 7890 Edit Person GRAMPS Descnption 10 fingers 10 toes Prefenred name Family Gamer Prefix Given Lewis Anderson Call Name X cancel Pok Title Type Birth Narre General Fig 5 3 Attributes Gender male Marker Events Names b Sources Attributes Addresses E Note amp Gallery i Internet Associations LOS The Attributes tab lets you view and assign attributes to the person You have complete freedom to define and use attributes For example attributes might be assigned to describe the person s physical characteristics or personality traits Date Street city State Co
74. In the unlikely event that Gramps 3 3 corrupts your database it could also corrupt the archive An export as outlined in this section is recommended Before you upgrade make sure your family tree data is secure The best way to do this 1S 1 Start Gramps 3 2 2 Open your family tree 3 Export the family tree to the gramps xml format or the gramps xml package format which includes your photographs and other media files associated with your family tree data Export your tree via menu Family Trees gt Export making sure you export all data with no filters applied 4 Close this family tree and repeat the above steps for any other family trees you have 5 Keep the resulting file s in a safe place For more information please review Backing up a Family Tree After properly safeguarding your data proceed to install Gramps 3 3 Use your operat ing system s regular installation process to do this It is also best to uninstall Gramps 3 2 before installing Gramps 3 3 or make sure you install Gramps 3 3 in a different location After you install Gramps 3 3 you can open your existing family trees and continue working In case of problems e g after a complete system upgrade use the backup file s created above to recreate your family tree s Warning Once you open a family tree in a newer version of Gramps or using a newer operating system you gener ally should not try to open that database using an older version again As alw
75. Joseph v Garner Anne Therese Mele OSE orendar Double click on the row to edit personal information Help Prd Close Fig 9 1 Descendant Browser This tool builds a tree with the Active Person being the root Children branch from their parents in the usual manner You can clickthe down or gt buttons to expand or collapse the nodes Use this tool for a quick glance of a person s descendants Tip Double clicking on tree node will bring up the Edit Person dialog allowing to view or modify the per sonal data Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Tools The Help button will bring you to this page and with the Close you close the Descendant Browser window Family Tree 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 Family Tree Processing tools are currently available in Gramps Note as The modifications will only be performed upon your ah explicit consent except for the automatic fixes per formedby Check and repair Database tool Edit Database Owner Information Select the menu Tools gt Family Tree Processing gt Edit Database Owner information This brings up the Database Owner Editor window where you can fill in the needed info e Name Street e Locality e City e State County e Country ZIP Postal Code e Phone Email Extract Information from Na
76. Manual FAQ General What is Gramps 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 ge nealogical data using the powers of your computer see About Where do I get it and how much does it cost Gramps can be installed at no charge Gramps is an Open Source project covered by the GNU General Public License You have full access to the source code and are allowed to distribute the program and source code freely Does Gramps exist in other languages Yes at the release of Gramps 3 3 it has been translated into 28 languages see GRAMPS translations How do I keep backups Use a recent version of Gramps From version 2 2 5 onwards there is an automatic back up utility It is extremely important to keep backups of your data and keep them in a safe place Gramps has a specific portable file format which is small and human readable denoted by gramps You can copy this backup file from time to time to a save location eg a usb stick Note The gramps files are compressed Clicking them will open Gramps To see the XML select them and open them with a decompressing utility like ark gunzip after which you can extract the XML file which is human readable see details Gramps does a quick hidden binary backup to allow restore if an error is noted If the correct package is installed you can use a revision system
77. N J 2 4 1879 9 3 1864 10044 Garner von Zieli ski Lewis Anderson Sr Fig 2 14 Pedigree view 4 Events can be shared between multiple people and multiple families The Events View lists the all the events recorded in the database The columns available for display are Description ID Type Main Participants Date Place and Last Changed The default view displays the Description ID Type Date and Place oftheevent The Column Editor dialog can be used to add remove and rearrange the displayed columns This can be accessed from the Configure View button on the toolbar Meaningful event description Because events can be shared you should take the extra time to give each event a unique and meaningful de scription This will help you find the correct event if you decide to share events 11 Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Main Window Tl d l l y Leh YF A U A ee 6 21 1833 aS orl 1 ce a ww Places Media aout Garner jesse Vv ij Repositories Garner Raymond E Garner Jennie 5 Garner Walter E Garner Daniel Webster Garner Bertha P Garner Elizabeth CPL C LLL 144 Garner Lewis Anderson Fig 2 15 Children menu The list of Events can be sorted in the usual manner by clicking on the column heading Clicking once sorts in ascending order clicking again sorts in descending order From Gramps Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Main Window Sources l g Places
78. PS SOL Database Exporter Importer A GRAMPS exporter and importer P i ee ae s Later if you decide that you do not like an Addon you can mark it hidden and it Handle bash External utility A bash script which makes it pos will no longer show Census Gramplet Gramplet Lists census events for the active _ eel gt Previous Index Next GNU FDL FREE DOC LICENSE le Pram By peal Mediawiki This page was last modified on 26 October 2011 at 06 54 This page has been accessed 445 times Content is available under GNU Free Documentation License 1 2 Privacy policy About Gramps Disclaimers Path to Addon r entzstallnicdosted iostan eee Egciose Reload From Gramps Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Gramplets From Gramps Jump to navigation search Special copyright notice All edits to this page need to be under two different copyright licenses e GNU Free Documentation License 1 2 see wiki copyright GPL see manual copyright These licenses allow the Gramps project to maximally use this wiki manual as free content in future Gramps versions If you do not agree with this dual li cense then do not edit this page You may only link to other pages within the wiki which fall only under the GFDL license via external links using the syn tax http www gramps project org not via internal links Also only use the known conventions Previous Index Next This page details the functionalit
79. Report Visible Ancestor Tree Produces a graphical ancestral tree Quickreport Hidden Attribute Match Display people with same attribute Report Visible Birthday and Anniversary Report Produces a report of birthdays and anniversarie Report Visible Book Report Produces a book containing several reports al by nfo O Hiden nhide load Ej Eemer Reload Fig Ability to hide plugins From Gramps Advanced manipulation of settings Warning The contents of this section is outside the scope of in terest 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 Gramps key file Automatically created at 2009 06 18 20 23 25 export no private False no unLinked False restrict Living False interface child ref height 450 child ref width 6500 dont ask False event height 450 event ref height 565 event ref width 600 event sel height 450 event seLl width 600 event width 617 familweheinht 7A2 Fig 10 13 The keys ini file Gramps 3 uses INI keys stored under gramps gramplets keys for managing user preferences The list has following sub items e behavior typical Key names are betawarn enable autobackup use tips e export export and import dirs e interface a lot of keys regarding height and width of the different Views e g event height 450 event ref height 585 event ref wi
80. Then choose the People category and select the menu 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 Toolbar Home icon You can also choose the menu Go gt Home or select Home item from any context menu available on the right click or use the keyboard shortcut Alt Home 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 fromthe Go menu con text 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 Forward toolbar buttons invokes the popup menu with correspond ing portion of the history Select any item from the menu to jump directly to it Bookmarks 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 the menu Bookmarks gt Add Bookmark To move to that person from anywhere in the database choose the menu Bookmarks gt Person s name from the list of book marked names shown You can manage your bookmarks by choosing the menu Bookmarks gt Organize bookmarks Th
81. This following example shows that there was a marriage event thus calculation of the offset but none of the persons had a death event Even if the date is not known just enter a death event for one of the partners and the list will be corrected Living couple married most long ago van Dosselaere Petronella de Richter Egidius and Rechters 382 years 1 mont Petrus and Asscericx Catharina 379 years 9 months Session Log Gramplet etl Log for this Session active changed Blank Douglas Scott active changed McKinney John Grafton active changed McKinney Mary Ann active changed McKinney George Harvey active changed Peters Magdalene Flora active changed Peters Mary active changed Peters Katherine Flora active changed Peters Christian Flora active changed Peters Jacob Michael active changed Church Benjamin active changed Church Sarah arhiva rhanna Cannear laal Matthow x Session Log gt Fig 7 16 Session Log Gramplet From Gramps The session log keeps track of activity in this session It lists selected and edited objects Click a name once to make this person the active person Double click on a name or family brings up the edit page for that object In addition if you want to edit a person but don t want to change the active person you can right click on the person s name T
82. V 532 V 5 for N 3 for D 2 for S or D 250 D 2 for the S 5 for the N 0 added Consonant Separators If a vowel A E I O U separates two consonants that have the same Soundex code the consonant to the right of the vowel is coded Example Tymczak is coded as T 522 T 5 for the M 2 for the C Z ignored see Side by Side rule above 2 for the K Since the vowel A separates the Z and K the K is coded If H or W separate two consonants that have the same Soundex code the consonant to the right of the vowel is not coded Example Ashcraft is coded A 261 A 2 for the S C ignored 6 for the R 1 for the F It is not coded A 226 Use of SoundEx module in GRAMPS Soundex code generator GRAMPS MX SoundEx code generator lames las 520 Mame SoundEx code Pd Close P Help Fig 4 8 SoundEx code generator Select via the menu Tools gt Utilities gt Generate SoundEx Codes the dialog for the SoundEx code generator window opens Inthe Name text field you can type in a name or you could use the down arrow where you can choose a name from the drop down list From Gramps The name you type in can be any name even a name not present in your Family Tree The result is shown automatically eg The soundex code for James is J520 A Help button is available which brings you to this page With the Close button or using the keyboard shortcut Alt c you close the SoundEx code generator window M
83. Wiki Manual Entering and editing data detailed part 3 ce es Werge People Gramps 2 a Merge People Select the person that will provide the primary data for the merged person Greenwood Leticia 10098 Greenwood Louisa l0099 w Detailed Selection Person 1 Person 2 Greenwood Leticia Name Greenwood Louisa Name Gramps ID 0098 Gramps ID 10039 Events media objects addresses attributes urls notes sources and tags of both persons will be combined w Context Information Greenwood Leticia ID 10098 Gender female Birth 1841 Illinois Events Birth 1841 Illinois Parents Family ID F0028 Father Greenwood Adkins 0091 Mother Greenwood Sarah l0092 Spouses No spouses or children found F Help Fig 5 27 Merge people expanded view Greenwood Louisa ID 10099 Gender female Birth 1843 Ilinois Events Birth 1843 Illinois Parents Family ID F0028 Father Greenwood Adkins 10091 Mother Greenwood Sarah l0092 Spouses No spouses or children found ag OK Cancel 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 spec ify From Gramps to be used for the merged record then click OK Merge Sources G G Merge Sources Gramps w i es Merge Sources
84. a Description Males Matches people with a specified GRAMPS ID People having notes Values People having notes containin iD Select People marked private a People matching the lt filter gt People probably alive People with lt id gt People with lt id gt matching req 5 r ne ee T 4 7 a Help Fig 11 2 Add rule click OK to add this rule to the rule list of the currently edited filter Clicking Can cel will abort adding the rule to the filter Tip A filter you have already designed may be used as a rule for another filter This gives you nearly infinite flexibil ity 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 Which filters in which view Depending on the used View you will get a different set of filters e Gramplets no filters available From Gramps e Persons View Relationships View and Pedigree View Ancestral filters Descendant filters Family filters General filters Event filters and Relationship Filters e Events View Sources View Media view Repositories View and Notes View only General filters Those General filters are specific for a View in the Media View the filters will only sort and search on Media Objects e Places View General filters and Position filters General filters Persons Relationship and Pedigree View This category i
85. a number of ways From Relationships View click onan Edit button in the family that you want to edit From Family View select the family in the list and then click the Edit button on the Toolbar or double click on the family From Gramps From Ancestry Views 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 The top of the window shows the names of the people whose relationship is being edit ed 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 view 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 aoaaa Note a Clicking OK will immediately save changes to the database This version of Gramps does not have a sepa rate saving function all cha
86. actly as youenteritinthe Notes dialog e Gallery The Gallery tab lets you store and display photos and other media objects asso ciated with the relationship 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 youaddanew image adda reference to an existing image modi fy 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 e LDS 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 corresponding Sources and Note buttons 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 in voke the following Source Editor dialog 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 13 Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Entering and editing data detailed part 1 buttons Cli
87. ale Wea Loil Smith Emi E mae Genle Sroith Eraz Lhd 115 male Byer S83 Smith Gus 115 mag H1ILES7 LivZ1N1 963 Smith Enc Lica 119 rralla HZL grmt Gira i15 Fral g Ol Liles Lovell ge s 1120 Srreth Card Emil ararcduncle of Smeth Edan Michael 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 respec tively You may also press CTRL F to turn on the search mode but simply starting to type is also enough As you type the first record in the list that is compatible with your input will be se lected Finding People For more complex people searches you may want to use filters Enable filter controls by choosing menu View gt Sidebar select the desired filter and click Find For details see Filters From Gramps Using the Clipboard poh This page s factual accuracy may be compromised due to out of date information Please help improve the Gramps Wiki as a useful resource by updating it Scratch Pad GRAMPS Value Type Title Person Link Smith Carl Emil 12 20 1899 Event Link Birth Birth of Anna Streittert EventRet Census of Craig Peter Smith Census Source Link Marriage Certificae so Text But Aunt Martha still keeps the original Clear All te Ed close This tool pro
88. all source references stored in the database in relation to the person The buttons Edit and allow you to Tip correspondingly add modify and remove a source reference to this person Note The first available image in the gallery will be also dis thatthe Edit and buttons become available only when a source playedinthe Image areainthe General tab reference is selected from the list On edit you can change the data in the source reference unique to this person D The buttons Edit and let you add anew image to the database as well as the shared source object see Editing Source References link to an image already stored in the database modify an image and remove a Gallery given media object from the person s gallery Note thatthe Edit and DE Cea EA buttons become available only when a media object is selected from the list You arrive on the Media reference editor Prefenred name amily Gamer Prefix gt Er annaa Note TE ype Bith Name A Removing a media object from a person s gallery does General not remove it from the database It only removes the Gender male o Marker reference to that object from this person s record e Internet Eqit Person GHAMIPS Prefenred name Family Gamer Prefix Given Lewis Anderson Call Name 654px Aksel Andersson 1897_expeditionsmannschat_no_a Title Type Birth Name General Gender male marker F
89. ally the most convenient and problem free way of moving your data to Gramps version 3 x Import 2 2 grdb file In a Gramps 2 2 database your data is stored in a grdb file along with one or more log files that are kept in directories found in the zramps From Gramps env directory To import your 2 2 data directly into Gramps 3 create a new database and select the option to import a Gramps 2 2 database You need to make sure that you are running Gramps 3 from the same user you used to run Gramps 2 2 so that it has access to the same gramps env directory containing the log files that supplement your database If you are running Gramps 3 from a different user or on another machine you need to make provisions to make the same gramps env directory and log files available If you get an error saying tmp tmpDkI5pO could not be opened or something similar when attempt to import your database then it means that Gramps 3 cannot see all of the files that constitute your database e Gramps XML With this approach firstly start up Gramps 2 2 and export your database to the Gramps XML format The XML file is actually compressed and contained in a gramps file This file is portable has no other dependent files and can be moved to wherever you have Gramps 3 installed Next start Gramps 3 and Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Manage Family Trees create an empty database using the Family Tree Manager and import the gramps file Previous Index Next
90. amps consists of a core plus many plugins When Gramps starts the core is loaded and only a limited number of plugins are loaded This decreases the startup time and memory requirements of Gramps Subsequently many plugins are automatically loaded by Gramps as they are needed so that many users will not need to be aware of the existence of plugins or their delayed loading The Plugin Manager allows you to control how Gramps manages plugins Plugin types There are two main categories of plugins in Gramps user plugins and system plug ins User plugins are those that you use and control to provide different functionality for you The system plugins are used by Gramps The following types of User Plugins are present in Gramps 1 doc creators Backends for which Gramps can write reports pdf odf ascii text x 2 exporters export formats you can export your data too via menu Family Trees gt Export 3 gramplets small programs you can embed in the GrampletView or detach and use as a normal window 4 gramps views the views visible in the main window of Gramps 5 importers import formats from which Gramps can import data via menu Family Trees gt Import 6 map service targets that can be used on the place view to go to an internet map service Go toolbar button 7 quickreport small reports that are available in the context menu on the listviews or via the Quickreport gramplet 8 reports Textual or graphical reports Gramps
91. amps project org not via internal links Also only use the known conventions Previous Index Next Preferences Most of the settings in Gramps are configured in the Preferences dialog To invoke it select the menu Edit gt Preferences The tabs on the top display the available option categories Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Settings Preferences Gramps Database Display Text ID Formats Dates Wamings Researcher Marker Colors O Add default source on import O Enable spelling checker O Display Tip of the Day iW Remember last view displayed Max generations for relationships 15 Base path for relative media paths B Fig 10 1 General Preferences General po This page s factual accuracy may be compromised due to out of date information Please help improve the Gramps Wiki as a useful resource by updating it This category contains preferences relevant to the general operation of the program Options are e Add default source on import This option affects the importing of data If this is set each item that is imported will contain a source reference to the imported file piia Note Ea Adding a default source can significantly slow down the importing your data e 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 From Gramps e Display Tip of the Day This option cont
92. anual Entering and Editing Data Detailed part 3 wan P pa Jump to navigation search NNE The previous section offered you a detailed overview of how to enter and edit the main ER julia Renee Faerie objects you see in Gramps This section continues with some objects you will encounter Title Suffix Nick Name Julie as part of sources persons Family Names x Special copyright notice All edits to this page need to be under two different 2 copyright licenses e GNU Free Documentation License 1 2 see wiki copyright e GPL see manual copyright These licenses allow the Gramps project to maximally use this wiki manual as _ free content in future Gramps versions If you do not agree with this dual li Surname Connector Origin Graham cense then do not edit this page You may only link to other pages within the lt C Bc gt wiki which fall only under the GFDL license via external links using the syn Family Nick Name tax http www gramps project org not via internal links f Also only use the known conventions General Sources Notes Group as __ Override Sort as Default format defined by Gramps preferences w Previous Index Next Display as Default format defined by Gramps preferences v Date wh Fj Help a OK Cancel poast This page s factual accuracy may be compromised z due to out of date information Please help improve Fig 5 24 Name Editor the Gramps Wiki as a useful
93. arting a new Family Tree To start a new Family Tree choose the menu Family Trees gt Manage Family Trees or select the toolbar Family Trees button This will open the Family Tree Manag er See Fig 3 3 Select the New button and Gramps will add a new Family Tree entry to the list of Family Trees To change its name from the default Family Tree 1 click on the name and type in a new name Now select Load Family Tree to open the new empty Family Tree Family Trees GHAMPS Fig 3 3 Starting Family Trees Opening a Family Tree To open a Family Tree either choose the menu Family Trees gt Manage Family Trees or click the Toolbar Family Trees button The Family Tree Manag er will appear and you will see a list of all the Family Trees known to Gramps In the Status column an icon looks like an open folder will display beside any Family Tree that is currently open Select the tree you want to open and open it by selecting the Load Family Tree button Alternatively you can double click on the de sired Family Tree To open a recently accessed Family Tree choose either the menu Family Trees gt Open Recent or the down arrow next tothe Toolbar Family Trees button and select the Family Tree from the list From Gramps Read Only Mode If you do not have write permissions for the selected Family Tree 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 Family Tr
94. ata that either changes dynamically during the run ning of Gramps or provides interactivity to your genealogical data What is the differ ence between gramplets reports quick views and tools e Reports provide a static output format of your data typically for presentation e Quick View provides a typically short interactive listing derived from your data e Tools provide a method of processing your data e Gramplets provide a dynamic view and interface to your data Gramplets are the widgets that are part of Gramps and can be seen in the Gramplet View and Sidebars Bottombars The widgets provide all kind of functionality that can be use ful for the researcher From Gramps When you first start the Gramplets View you will see two default Gramplets the Welcome Message Gramplet and the Top Surnames Gramplet E Applications Places System amp B Family Trees Edit View Reports Tools Windows Help of A 4 IS z Family Trees ScratchPad Reports Tools My Gramps amp X Welcome to GRAMPS 8 People f Welcome to GRAMPS f m amp Relationships Top Surnames Gadget GRAMPS AT GRAMPS is a software te Family List designed for genealogic Top Surnames Although similar to oth 1 Scott 9 86 Lo Pedigree genealogical programs 2 Cooper 8 77 3 offers some unique and 3 McKinney 7 67 2h ao features 4 Blank 6 60 A Saree l 5 Flora 4 42 GRAMPS is an Open So 6 Wilkerson 2 22 A Pl So
95. atabase rather than having to type it all out You can select the entry using your mouse or using your arrow and Enter keys Nickname isa descriptive name given in place of or in addition to the official given name Family Nickname is non official name given to a family to distinguish them of people with the same family name Often referred to as eg Farm name a0 This page s factual accuracy may be compromised z due to out of date information Please help improve the Gramps Wiki as a useful resource by updating it General section e The Gender menu offers the choice of person s gender male female and unknown e The field ID displays the GRAMPS ID number which identifies the user in the database This value helps you distinguish 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 e The Privacy button lets you mark whether or not the person s record is considered private e The Tags list lets you assign your custom tags and specify some basic information on the status of your research Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Entering and editing data detailed part 1 Preferred image The person editor also shows in the top right an image region This Image area shows the first image available in the Gallery of this person if any exist Person tab pages The tabs reflect the following categories of personal data e Events The Even
96. ather Custom filter Mother USA For Find S Reset Specifying your fathers family using filters is an easy thing there are already filters based on some logics that do it On the other hand specifying the people that emigrated to the USA is harder while for the famous people in your family it is simply impossible as there is no logical rule Tags are much more practical here However filters have the advantage of being dynamical If you add an ancestor of your father in the database it will be automatically added to the filter On the other hand tags are statical When adding a famous person in the tree you have to explicitely tag them as FAMOUS The most immediate object that comes to mind are the individuals and that is also the most useful However other objects could be tagged e Places For example places to visit e Source For example sources in german e Notes For example notes in progess or notes in german e Media For example Picture belonging to Uncle Alfred Tags are available to use with People Families Notes and Media From Gramps Operations with tags Here are a few ideas of operations that can be done with tags Filtering The most obvious use is that of filtering Tagging a selection of objects Garner jonn Josepn 1186 male 15 Aug 1961 Garner Joseph male male 18 Nov 1823 Garner Lewis 11105 21 jan 1911 Louella Marie female Garne
97. aula 20 years 6 months 12 days 3 Hansdotter Anna 21 years 1 month 25 days Person married at oldest age 1 Smith Edwin Michael 34 years 3 days 2 Smith Hjalmar 32 years 6 months 24 days 3 Adams Janice Ann 29 years 9 months 1 day Person divorced at youngest age Person divorced at oldest age Youngest father 1 Smith Gustaf Sr 24 years 17 days 2 Smith Gustaf Sr 26 years 2 months 3 days 3 Smith Martin 27 years 10 months 17 days Youngest mother 1 Jefferson Elna 20 years 4 months 15 days Hansdotter Anna 22 vears months 13 davs 4 Fig 7 14 Records Gramplet The Records Gramplet shows a number of interesting facts about the records mostly age related from your database The list shows the top three for each element e Youngest living person e Oldest living person e Person died at youngest age e Person died at oldest age e Person married at youngest age e Person married at oldest age e Person divorced at youngest age e Person divorced at oldest age e Youngest father e Youngest mother e Oldest father Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Gramplets e Oldest mother e Couple with most children Living couple married most recently Living couple married most long ago e Shortest past marriage e Longest past marriage The list is not only interesting on its own it is also a good sanity check of the data For some items you have to fill in some additional information
98. ay a wealth of statistical data about your database Timeline Chart The Timeline Chart report outputs the list of people with their lifetimes represented by intervals on a common chronological scale Graphs These reports are related to GraphViz Family Lines Graph The Family Lines Graph py plugin was created to generate easy to follow graphs Note that FamilyLines does not display all of the people in the database instead this plugin generates smaller family trees with many options to try and restrict the number of people included A typical use of this plugin is to generate simplified graphs printed on large plotters Hourglass Graph The Hourglass Graph generate an hourglass graph using the GraphViz generator Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Reports Relationship Graph The Relationship Graph creates a complex relationship graph in GraphViz format and then converts into graphical output running it through the GraphViz dot tool behind the scene Text Reports Text reports represent the desired information as formatted text Ahnentafel Report The Ahnentafel Report lists the Active Person and his or her ancestors along with their vital data The people are numbered in an establish standard called Ahnentafel Birthday and Anniversary Report The Birthday and Anniversary Report gives the same information as a calendar but in text format Complete Individual Report The Complete Individual Report provides indiv
99. ays the gramps xml format is the format to use for the interchange of your data in such From Gramps Visible changes to the core Names e Formats e New Editor e New filter rules GrampsBar A sidebar and bottombar are available on all views except for the Gramplet View They allow gramplets to be displayed alongside a view See Gramplets for more details Tags Tags replace Markers Tagging is available for Person Family Media and Note objects Users can tag an object with multiple tags Merging All primary objects could now be merged See Merging Records for more details Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual What s new Locality A Locality field has been added to Location between the Street and City fields New Selection Dialog in Export When exporting your data you now have a fine grained control over the details of how filters can be applied You also can now check which records are selected and which ones are not through this interface More tooltips All fields on Editors have now tooltips Linking in Notes Notes now support links to other items in Gramps For example when writing a note you can put a link to a person family or marriage When viewing these notes you can quickly click on the link and bring up the object Links are also converted to HTML links when for example running the Narrative Web report Backup dialog Simply select Make Backup from the Family Trees menu item Fr
100. ays of adding or editing a person from Name ID Gender Birth Date Death Date Garner Jason Richard 11047 male 20 10 1975 ANN the People View Garner Jennie S 1625 female 11 9 1880 20 6 1964 3 2 gt TERET ao Su er A You can also use the Menu Edit gt Add and other items Garner John Joseph 1186 male 15 8 1961 available under Edit Or you can right click on the per Garner John Roger 1136 male 29 10 1925 son and select Add or Edit fromthe Garner Joseph 1104 male 1792 Garner Kathryn Mary 1180 female 10 9 1952 context menu that pops up Garner Lewis 11105 male 18 11 1823 21 1 1911 Garner Lewis Anderson 144 male 21 6 1855 28 6 1911 Garner Louella Marie 1183 female People can also be added to the database in the Relationships View Edit Garner Margaret Ann 11039 female 18 7 1951 10 2 1932 z s s 9 Family dialog and other places where it makes sense Garner Marguarite 1653 female Garner Marie 1642 female Garner Mark Gerard 1185 male 16 10 1962 Garner Mary J 11114 female 12 10 1851 1 4 1852 e e e Garner Mary M 11115 female 12 10 1851 24 5 1858 O specify a relationship Garner Maude 1651 female K 7 Family tree 1 GRAMPS 1186 Garner John Joseph 2132 2132 Family Tees Edit View Go Bookmarks Reports Tools Help Person Garner Lewis Anderson GRAMPS 4 v amp le m a Edl amp or Family Trees Home Clipboard Reports Tools Edit Add Share Pref d gae seni E cramplets Garner Lewis Anderson g
101. before you use this tool Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Tools Sort Events Sort Events Tool Options Filter Person Sort descending Include family events Fig 4 7 Sort Events Events appearing on the Event tab on a Person or Family Editor are not sorted in any particular order other than the order that the events were added The reason for not enforcing any particular ordering particularly ordering by date is to allow for the situ ation where an event was known to have happened but the exact chronology is not Im porting or merging data from an external source can lead to extra events being added to but out of sequence with the existing set of events of a person or family Events can be manually re ordered by drag amp drop or by use of the re order buttons onthe Events tab Either way an event can be moved up or down in the list of events and Gramps will remember the new order when the changes are saved The new ordering will be used wherever events are shown elsewhere in Gramps such as on a re port The order of all events on a tab can also be changed by clicking a column title For example clicking the Date column header will sort all the events in date order How ever this way of sorting events is temporary and changes to the event order are not preserved when the window is closed From Gramps The drag and drop approach to sorting events is fine for moving a small number of events but is not practica
102. bels You can reorder the parents and spouses by selecting the Reorder button This option will only be enabled if more than one set of parents 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 Configuration v Parents F416 zx Configure Relationships x Father Beaulieu Johann Simond Content Layout b 1742 e Mother pnropbesg Anna Maria 3 spac b 1754 Display edit buttons v Siblings O View links as website links Fig Configure Relationships View You can configure the view from the display by calling up the Configure dialog from the menu View gt Configure or click on the toolbar button Configure WISN 5 56 Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Main Window Families Category Family tree 1 GHAMPS Family Trees Edit View Bookmarks Tools Help 5 o z axi a E Family Tees Clipboard Reports Tools Add Edit 1 Gramplets ID contains w G Find a People i Relationships amp Families Cs Pedigree Reports Father Mother Relationship El Married Married Married Married Married Married Married Married Garner Joseph Edwards Lucy Martel Luella Jacques Gibbs Lori Gibbs Sharon Gibbs Joy P rez Angela Gay Garner Lewis Anderson Garner Mark Gerard Garner Michael Stanley i Garner Peter G
103. c 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 Internet 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 youadd modify and remove an Internet address The Go but ton 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 thatthe Edit and Go buttons become available only when an address is selected from the list e References The References tab indicates any database records events or LDS ordinances that refer to a place This information cannot be modified from the Place Edi tor dialog Instead the corresponding database record e g a birth event has to be brought up and its place reference edited Editing information about sources The general information at the top of the window lets you define basic information about the source its Title Author Abbreviation and Publi cation information Youcan type this information dir
104. can produce 9 tools Tools you can start via the menu Tools The following types of System Plugins are present in Gramps 1 plugin libs libraries that are present giving extra functionality 2 relationships relationship calculators for different languages There are many plugins that come with Gramps However anyone can also write a plu gin and share it These third party plugins are called addons We highly encourage users and developers to share their creations with other Gramps users From Gramps Registration and loading Plugins are either held locally on the computer and are known about by Gramps when they are said to be Registered or they are held on a remote computer and Gramps only knows their name type and description when they are said to be Addons When Gramps starts information is automatically read about the local plugins so that they become registered The Plugin Manager can be used to download remote Ad dons so that they too become registered Registered i e local plugins are loaded by Gramps in the following situations 1 they are automatically loaded at startup Some plugin types are loaded at startup e g non hidden views some plugins can have a flag that forces load on startup 2 they are automatically loaded by virtue of the user clicking on a view or requesting a report 3 they are loaded by the user explicitly requesting load in the plugin manager 4 remote plugins are loaded at the same time as
105. ccording to a particular category This will become clearer as we explore the different Categories The different Categories of the Navigator The navigator is located at the left of the window and allows selection of the different categories See Fig 2 1 _ Gramplets Displays different Gramplets small widgets that can help in your genealogical research Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Main Window Search bar R F Merge Person View Person Tree View Configure View 000 Family Trees Edit View Go Bookmarks Reports Tools Help X Family Tree 3 Gramps Birth Date 1899 12 20 after 1966 Death Date 1959 01 28 10009 ale 1860 09 27 _ Details Gallery Events Children Sources Notes Attributes References Smith Edwin Michael Father Smith John Hjalmar Mother Perkins Alice Paula Birth 1961 05 24 San Jose Santa Clara Co CA Person View 42 42 Fig 2 1 Gramps Main Window showing Search Bar amp People Displays the people in the family tree without their connections This Category contains the PeopleListView and the PeopleTreeView amp Relationships Shows the relationships between the Active Person and other people in a textual way This includes parents spouses and children es Family Shows the families in the family tree C8 Ancestry Displays graphical trees for the selected person i 3 1 k hct Events Displays the events in the family tree a Places Display
106. cking 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 m SF Clicking OK will immediately save changes to the l database write on disk All changes are immediate Tip f If a tab label is in boldface type this means it contains data If not it has no data Previous Index Next GNU FOL FREE DOC LICENSE eel This page was last modified on 26 October 2011 at 21 21 This page has been accessed 1 336 times Content is available under GNU Free Documentation License 1 2 Privacy policy About Gramps Disclaimers Porad By MediaWiki From Gramps Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Entering and editing data detailed part 2 Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Entering and editing data detailed part 2 From Gramps matt New Event GRAMPS Redirected from Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Entering and Editing Data Detailed part 2 Jump to navigation search ETHER The previous section offered you a detailed overview of how to enter and edit data persons and relationships This section continues with other objects you encounter in Gramps Description ID Place To select a place use drag and drop or use the buttons im Special copyright notice All edits to this page need to be under two different copyright licenses Sources Notes Gallery Attributes References e GNU Free Documentation License 1 2 see wiki copyright GPL see
107. com wft geneweb and gramps pkg the filename is the name of the resulting file e export a family tree in required format It is not possible to export to a family tree Example python gramps py 1i Family Tree 1 L test grdo f grdo e mergedDB Note that above does not change Family Tree 1 as everything happens via a temporary database whereas python gramps py O Family Tree 1 i test grdb f grdb e mergedDB will import test grdb into Family Tree 1 and then export to a file Exporting more files 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 e flag The files are written one by one in the specified order From Gramps Action options The action to perform on the imported data can be specified with the a actLon or action action option This is done after all imports are successfully completed The following actions remain the same e report This action allows producing reports from the command line e tool This action allows to run a tool from the command line Reports and tools generally have many options of their own so these actions should be followed by the report tool option string The string is given using the p Option String or OpLilons Option string option The actions availab
108. ction Only a part of your data is contained in the output e vcf VCard format import and export e vcs VCalandar format export e def old Pro Gen format import e wit Web Family Tree This format is available for export only When not specified it can be guessed if the filename ends with wft Opening options You can open a family tree or you can open a file by importing it in an empty family tree To let Gramps handle this automatically just supply the familytree or filename you want to open python gramps py My Fam Tree python gramps py JohnDoe ged The first opens a family tree the second imports a gedcom into an empty family tree Additionally you can pass Gramps the name of the family tree to be opened e use this option O famtree or open famtree O Open of a family tree This can be done also by just typing the name name or data base dir Examples Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Command Line python gramps py Family Tree 1 python gramps py home cristina gramps grampsdb 47320f3d python gramps py O Family Tree 1 python gramps py O home cristina gramps grampsdb 47320f3d Tip If no option is given just a name Gramps will ignore the rest of the command line arguments Use the O flag to open i to import and do something with the data Tip Only family trees can be opened directly For other for mats you will need to use the import option which will set up the empty database and th
109. culator passasi This page s factual accuracy may be compromised due to out of date information Please help improve the Gramps Wiki as a useful resource by updating it This utility calculates and displays the relationship of any person to the Active Person Verify the Data This utility allows you to verify the database based on the set of criteria specified by you For example you may want to make sure that nobody in your database had children at the age of 98 Based on common sense such a record would indicate an error How ever 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 Select this via the menu Tools gt Utilities gt Verify the Data you will get a Database Verify Tool window The window has four tabs General Women Men Families Those tabs show a list with criteria and a input field where you can alter the criteria value In the lists below I show some workable val ues e General Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Tools Maximum age 90 Minimum age to marry l7 Maximum age to marry 50 Maximum number of spouses for a person E Maximum number of consecutive years of widowhood before next marriage Maximum age for an unmarried person Cl Estimate missing dates
110. dd images related to a relationship for example a marriage switch to the Family View family fig 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 sources fig or Place View places fig 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 tabandclickthe button to add an image Finally to add images that you want to include in the database but hare are not limited to any particular person relationship source or place switch to the Media View media fig 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 0000000 a 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 From Gramps In any gallery you can also use the Edit toedit image information andthe but ton and to remove the image reference from that gallery Removing an image from a gallery aoaaa Removing a media object from a gallery does not re a move the i
111. dings ID Ti tle Call Number and Type Double clicking an entry allows you to view and edit the record You may also edit the reference The buttons on the side of the tab allow you add a new repository link to or share an existing repository edit the refer ence to the repository or remove the reference e 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 Editing source references Source references connect a Source to another object and allow you to provide addi tional information about the source When adding source references to events places etc the following dialog appears 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 Ti tle can be selected from the available sources listed in the drop down menu If the From Gramps source you are referencing is not already in the database you can enter it by clicking 1 New and filling out the invoked Source Editor dialog Source Reference Editor GRAMPS 2 Reference information Date 25 6 1855 a Volurne Page Confidence High v a Shared source information General Notes 52 Gallery Data 4 Repositories References Title Baptize regi
112. directly into the adjacent fields The top part lets you view and edit basic information about the event 1 The Type can be selected from the available types listed in the Event type drop down menu E g Burial Graduation etc From Gramps Checking the Private record box marks the event record as private and allows it to be omitted from reports The central part of the window displays five notebook tabs containing different cat egories of information Click on a tab to view or edit its contents The tabs provide the following information categories of the event data e 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 as sociated with an event Note that the Edit and buttons become available only when a source reference is selected from the list e 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 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 Tip If a tab label is in boldface type this means it contains data If not it has no data Editing event ref
113. dow From Gramps Jump to navigation search Display area 4enubar e808 X Family Tree 3 Gramps Family Trees Edit View Go Bookmarks Reports Tools Help N t a aes gt Jal FP m j N Zi Clipboard Reports Person View Person Tree View Configure View Name Tools Re Special copyright notice All edits to this page need to be under two different copyright licenses e GNU Free Documentation License 1 2 see wiki copyright e GPL see manual copyright These licenses allow the Gramps project to maximally use this wiki manual as _ free content in future Gramps versions If you do not agree with this dual li cense then do not edit this page You may only link to other pages within the wiki which fall only under the GFDL license via external links using the syn tax http www gramps project org not via internal links Also only use the known conventions Gramplets Birth Date 1899 12 20 Smith Craig Peter 10029 male after 1966 Navigator amp Relationships 1961 05 24 ID 1860 09 27 amp Families 1963 08 28 e Birth date e Ancestry 4 LLII Death date NJ Attrib R Event v Smith Edwin Michael Note Father Smith John Hjalmar Mother Perkins Alice Paula Tag v n Birth 1961 05 24 San Jose Santa Clara Co CA Repositories l Custom filter None 2 a Media y g Use regular expressions Notes Na EA ay Eind Reset g 10037 Smith Edwin Michael Per
114. dth 728 event width 712 e paths keys related to recent imported files and dirs Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Settings e preferences keys related to preferences all the common prefixes todo colors e researcher all information regarding the researcher Name Format Editor passaat This page s factual accuracy may be compromised due to out of date information Please help improve the Gramps Wiki as a useful resource by updating it 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 onthe 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 example t L f will give Dr SMITH Edwin The formatting characters are f character Name CHARACTER NAME l t p S C y Patronymic Y PATRONY MIC Example Shows a dynamic example how the name will be displayed with the current Format definition string e Format definition details Shows a quick reminder of the special formatting characters From Gramps Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Settings Previous Index Next aaa eed MediaWiki This page was last modified on 26 October 2011 at 12 39 This page has been accessed GNu EDL 598 times Content is ava
115. e GRAMPS User Directory The type of plugin is shown in the first column A plugin can be made hidden or unhidden This is only useful for the User Plugins From Gramps Loaded Plugins Plugin Manager Gramps Registered Plugins Loaded Plugins Install Addons Loaded File Status Message The pyexiv2 python binding library it can be downloaded either from ye http tilloy net dev pyexiv2 Visible Provides a library for generic access ImageMetadataGramplet py Visible libaccess py fanchartview py Visible The view showing relations through placetreeview py Visible A view displaying places in a tree for eventview py Visible The view showing all the events familyview py Visible The view showing all families grampletview py Visible The view allowing to see Gramplets Visible The view showing all the media objet Visible The view showing all the notes E BH Hide Unhide i Load mediaview py noteview py Info EEgclose Reload Here you see a list of all plugins that have been attempted to be loaded Normally all views such as the Relationship View will be loaded and all gramplets reports tools you have used will be loaded automatically If there was an error during the loading of a plugin then the staus will be shown in this tab Double clicking a row showing a failure opens a dialog showing the error in detail You can use this to contact the plugin author or the Gramps bug list Gramps 3 3
116. e clicked A table is presented which shows all people with a matching name or alternate name Person s name birth date and name type is given Change the number of names displayed by editing this section in gramps gram plets ini Welcome Gramplet The welcome gramplet gives an introductory message to new users and some basic in structions The welcome message describes what Gramps is that the program is Open Source Software and how you start a Family Tree Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Gramplets X Welcome to GRAMPS 1 Welcome to GRAMPS GRAMPS is a software package designed for genealogical research Although similar to other genealogical programs GRAMPS offers some unique and powerful features 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 Getting Started The first thing you must do is to create a new Family Tree To create anew Family Tree sometimes called a database select Family Tees from the menu TODO You are currently reading from the My Gramps page where you can add your own gadgets You can right click on the background of this page w Fig 7 21 Welcome Gramplet This information can also be found on the start page of Gramps From Gramps What s Next Gramplet asooo This page s factual acc
117. e following options close the dialog with out saving changes cancel the initial cancel request or save the changes Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Entering and editing data detailed part 1 aoaaa Note ww Clicking OK will immediately save changes to the database There is no need for a Save operation since all changes are immediate Tip J If a tab label is in boldface type this means it contains data If not it has no data Preferred name section The preferred or default name is the name that will be used in Gramps for the name of the person You can set in the Gramps Preferences how a name is displayed and in most places you will see only the preferred name Only detailed reports textual and Narra tive Web site generator show also the alternate names Note however that searching on a name will search in all names attached to a person not only the preferred name The preferred name section contains the typical name information you will edit on creation of a person Not all possible name information is shown here only the most used fields To see the full range of data you can store about a name click the edit but ton afterthe Preferred name label This will show the Name Editor The name fields of the preferred name inthe Person Editor are e Given name the person s given name e Family name the part ofa person s name indicating the family to which the person belongs e Family prefix an optional prefix for
118. e lock icon indicating you cannot open it Closing the tree in the first copy of Gramps will make it available to be opened in the second copy If you could open the same Family Tree in two Gramps at once it is likely your data would be damaged In the unlikely event of a crash of Gramps the family tree will be left in a locked state To unlock the tree select the locked family tree and click the Unlock button that will be available Only do this if you are sure no other copy of Gramps is using this Family Tree Repairing a damaged Family Tree Family TEES GRAMS Family tree name Status Last modified gt Gramps Example Wed Jun 20 22 37 30 2007 L New Gramps Example After XML import Wed Jun 20 22 37 35 2007 a ee ee F Delete Rename Repair bq close Window Load Family Tree Should your Family Tree become damaged or corrupted in some way Gramps Family Tree Manager will display a red Error icon in the Status column To have Gramps attempt to repair the damage select the Family Tree and then click the Repair button This will attempt to rebuild your Family Tree from the backup files that are auto matically created on exit Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Manage Family Trees Saving changes to your Family Tree 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 s
119. e next version of GRAMPS If you have an idea for additional Gramplets please let us know Age on Date Gramplet This Gramplet gives you the possibility of entering a date in an entry field If you click Run the Gramplet will compute the ages for everyone in your Family Tree on that Date The date must be entered in a format that Gramps accepts You can then sort by the age column and double click the row to view or edit Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Gramplets a X Age on Date Enter a date in the entry below and click Run This will compute the ages for everyone in your Family Tree on that date You can then sort by the age column and double click the row to view or edit Date 11 08 1903 Fig 7 3 Age On Date Gramplet I Quick View GRAMPS People probably alive and their ages the 1903 11 08 267 matches Person Age Goings John E 36 years 10 months v J Close Fig 7 3a Age On Date Quick Report Age Stats Gramplet The Age Stats gramplet shows graphs of the breakdown of particular age spans Clicking on a row will bring up the associated people From Gramps Age Stats Gramplet GRAMPS Age Stats 115 120 Q Help X Close Fig 7 4 Age Stats Gramplet Age Stats Gramplet GRAMPS Age Stats Options Max age 120 Max age of Mother at birth 60 Max age of Father at birth 60 Chart width 60 lt gt I PIC gt lt gt
120. e presented with the Capitalization changes window The window shows a list of the family names that Gramps can convert to correct capitalization In the list you will see a three columns Select check box es Original Name and Capitalization Change Select the names you want to be changed then hit the Accept and close button Orusethe Cancel button to abort changes changes Rename Event Types This tool allows all the events of a certain name to be renamed to a new name Undo history Proceeding with this tool will erase the undo history for this session In particular you will not be able to revert the changes made by this tool or any changes made pri or to it If you think you may want to revert running this tool please stop here and backup your database Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Tools Change Event Types This tool will rename all events of one type to a different type Once completed this cannot be undone by the regular Undo function Original event type New event type Fig 4 6 Change type The Change Event Types window is presented This tool will rename all events of one type to a different type e Original event type fill in the text field or use the drop down menu and select an original event type e New event type fill in the text field you can create a complete new type here or use the drop down menu and select a new type The example shows a renaming of the Birth e
121. eated by exporting Menu Family Trees gt Export to that format e Gramps XML package gpkg The Gramps XML package is a compressed archive containing the Gramps XML file and all media objects images sound files etc to which the database refers Because it contains all the media objects this format is completely portable The Gramps XML package is created by exporting Menu Family Trees gt Export data in that format e GRAMPS V2 x database grdb Prior to Gramps Version 3 3 this native Gramps database format was a specific form of the Berkeley database BSDDB with a special structure of data tables This format was binary and architecture dependent It was Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Manage Family Trees very quick and efficient but not generally portable across computers with different binary architecture e g i386 vs alpha 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 When the import finishes a feedback window shows the number of imported objects If the imported data originates from the very family tree in which you import the data the import feedback gives suggestions about what could be merged the merge is not done automatically for you If you want to merge basic genealogy data automatically consider CSV Spreadsheet Export Import The GRAMPS CSV Spreadsheet format allows importing and exporting o
122. ectly into the adja cent fields 1 Title Title of the source 2 Authors Authors of the source From Gramps goure Bapuize registry 1850 1867 Great Falls Church GRA OIX Title Baptize registry 1850 1867 Great Falls Church Author Priests of Great Falls Church 1850 1867 ID 50000 Abbreviation BR GFC 1850 Publication information Microfilm Publie Library Great Falls a Gallery Data 4 Repositories Ai References Type Preview Source text 1855 06 25 line 1 fac secunda Junij Baptiza line 2 tus Transeript 1855 06 25 baptized on June the second Lewis Anderson legiti Fig 5 20 Source editor 3 ID an unique record to identify the source Leave generated by Gramps 4 Abbreviations Provide a short title used for sorting filing and retrieving source records 5 Publication information Publication Information such as city and year of publication name of publisher The tabs provide the following information categories of source data Note The Note tab provides a place to record notes or comments about the source To add a note or modify existing notes simply edit the text in the text entry field Only pri mary objects can be shown inthe 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 e Gallery The Gallery tab lets you store and d
123. ed from GUI widget 4593 e Records report and gramplet 3220 Under the hood changes Database There were three changes to the database file structure 1 Added a new field locality to the Place schema 2 Added surnames to the Name schema e surnames is a list of surnames e prefix and patronymic are moved to the surname 3 Replaced Markers with Tags e marker removed from all e tags added to Person Media Family and Notes Transaction e Merging e New DB version and XML DTD 1 4 0 1 Improvements on Import Export file formats vcard gedcom xml Dependencies e python 2 6 and later Optional e exif e pyexiv2 0 1 3 pyexiv2 0 2 2 or pyexiv2 0 3 0 Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual What s new Performances Improvements memory leaks 2 e time for XML import Speed up on gramplets pedigree Localisation e New translations Ukrainian Portuguese from Portugal e Lang selector on Detailed textual reports e Holidays on Calendar reports Improvements on some Date handlers e Better translation on some addons e cleanup configure makefiles Better support for win32 64 API Further info sasaaa This page s factual accuracy may be compromised z due to out of date information Please help improve the Gramps Wiki as a useful resource by updating it See the 3 3 0 roadmap the change log and Roadmap e Additional Name Fields 3 4 Tagging e Place handling Database XML part of GEPS016 transactio
124. edia Manager Media Manager GRAMPS Final confirmation The following action is to be performed Operation Convert paths from relative to absolute 1897_expeditionsmannschaft_rio_a jpg Gunnlaugur_Larusson_ Yawn jpg 654px Aksel_Andersson jpg E W_Dahlgren jpg Ol jpg O4 jpg Press OK to proceed Cancel to abort or Back to rewisit your options E cancel Back Fig 4 9 Final confirmation window This tool allows batch operations on media objects stored in Gramps An important dis tinction must be made between a Gramps media object and its file The Gramps media object is a collection of data about the media object file its file name and or path its description its ID notes source references etc These data do not include the file itself The files containing image sound video etc exist separately on your hard drive These files are not managed by Gramps and are not included in the Gramps database The Gramps database only stores the path and file names Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Tools This tool allows you to only modify the records within your Gramps database If you want to move or rename the files then you need to do it on your own outside of Gramps Then you can adjust the paths using this tool so that the media objects store the correct file locations If you click the Forward button or using the keyboard shortcut Alt F you will get a window with three radio buttons e Replace substrings in t
125. ee To indicate this mode the title of the main window will be appended with Read Only text Opening a GEDCOM or XML database Gramps allows you to open certain databases that have not been saved in Gramps own file format from the command line see Command line references These include XML and GEDCOM databases But you should be aware that if the XML or GEDCOM database is relatively large you will encounter performance problems and in the event of a crash your data can be corrupted Hence it is normally better to create a new Gramps family tree database and import your XML GEDCOM data into it Opening databases XML and GEDCOM databases require all data to be held ui in memory and don t contain indexes Gramps native format is a database that only reads the data needed Thus for a large family tree the data can be accessed quicker and more efficiently by not using XML or GEDCOM GEDCOM Editing Please keep in mind that some information in a GEDCOM file may be lost during import into Gramps as j well as export back to GEDCOM 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 Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Manage Family Trees Deleting a Family Tree Select the family tree you want removed and clickthe Delete button This will completely remove the tree with no possibility to re
126. ee Fig 11 1 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 filter dialog the Rule operations This allows you to choose whether all rules must ap ply 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 11 rule will match everyone who does not have a common ancestor with that person Clicking the toolbar Add Fig 11 2 The pane on the left hand side displays available filter rules arranged by their cat egories in an expandable tree For detailed filter rule 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 rule selection and its values button invokes the Add Rule dialog See Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Filters Add Rule GHAMFPS Add Rule Fule Mame i Selected Aule E People with lt Id gt Everyone eas
127. en import data into it Tip Only a single family tree can be opened If you need to combine data from several sources you will need to use the import option Import options The files destined for import can be specified with the i filename or import filename From Gramps option The format can be specified with the E LOrmat or Orma t T ormar option immediately following the filename If not specified the guess will be attempted based on the filename Example python gramps py i Family Tree 1 i Family Tree 2 python gramps py 1 test grdb 1 data gramps 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 flag The files are imported in the specified order i e a filel 1 filez and i file2 i filel might produce different GRAMPS IDs in the resulting database Export options The files destined for export can be specified with the Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Command Line e filename or export filename option The format can be specified with the ai 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 gramps xml gpkg ged
128. ens a database no filtering is in effect In People View for example all people in the database are listed by default From Gramps Sorting columns 4h Family tree Gramps rai Family Trees Edit View Go Bookmarks Reports Tools Help a g BEA B g o Gramplets Name contains v Q Rechercher d Effacer pm 8 People Name ID Gender Birth Date Death Date Spouse Relationships Farmer Susanna 11292 female 1784 Taylor Jacob amp familles Moreno Aaron 161 male 5 2 1784 18 2 1846 3n06uH Martha Wectakos George 1972 male vers 0 9 1784 9 3 1864 Daniels Phoebe 4G Ancestry Tyler Mary A 1993 female 1785 Delgado fe Seen Clark Sarah 1570 female 31 3 1785 Douglas Mary Polly 1921 female 27 4 1785 30 8 1842 Rodriquez William M Places Rodriquez William M 1597 male 8 8 1785 Douglas Mary Polly FB eosrapty Du zaet ec i armer Anr arie Farmer A a Mane A Sources Moreno Absalom 12093 male 13 1 1786 15 4 1838 g Repositories Ruiz Catherine 1466 female 20 4 1786 25 9 1877 Blake Conrad Hopkins Joseph 1569 male 11 5 1786 B media Benson Col David 1774 male 17 8 1786 6 3 1836 Za Notes Fernandez Thomas 199 male 1787 Holloway Sarah Douglas Joseph 1604 male 7 9 1787 9 3 1857 Carroll Grace Web Mopo3os Mary Elizabeth 11274 female 1788 Farmer Jacob Webb Andrew 1990 male 1788 avant 1850 Webb Margaret Margarite 11294 Farmer Anna Marie People 21
129. ent This rule matches people that have a family event matching specified values for the Event type Date Place and Description The rule returns a match even if the person s event matches the value partially The matching rules are case insensitive 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 Witness This rule matches people who are present as a witness in the event If the personal or family event type is specified only the events of this type will be searched e People with incomplete events This rule matches people missing date or place in any personal event e Families with incomplete events This rule matches people missing date or place in any family event of any of their families Family filters This category includes the following rules that match people based on their family re lationships From Gramps e People with children This rule matches people with children e People with multiple marriage records This rule matches people with more than one spouse e People with no marriage records This rule matches people with no spouses e People who were adopted This rule matches adopted people e Has the
130. ent or spouse or child or sibling old dead father e marriage after death before birth e large year span for all children e early late marriage e young unborn mother e husband and wife with the same surname same sex marriage female husband To show how handy this Utility is here two examples from real data The warning showed female husband checking the data I found a family with father Anna Roelants Luckily inthe Description read The marriage of Adam Roelants and Cornelia Crabbe It was clearly a typo Anna i s o Adam Without this Tool it would be very hard to find The warning showed late marriage checking the data male person 1738 female person 1756 marriage X 1804 Gregorian Calender Everything seemed to be OK so they re married at the age of 66 and 48 years The warning showed up because the General criteria was set to 60 11 Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Tools On the bottom of the window four check boxes are available to make a selec tion easier Those are Mark All Unmark All Invert Marks and Hide Marked Double clicking on a row will give you a possibility to view and or edit the data With the Close button or select the keyboard shortcut Alt c you close the Results window With the Help button or select the keyboard shortcut Alt H you will get to this page Difference between Verify tool and previously de scribed Check tool The Check tool detects inconsistencies in the database structu
131. eorge Events eA Sources alegre Garner Richard Eugene Garner Robert F a Media Cie eee ae eee een n ia caden MAREL W Garner Thomas James Garner Raymond Scott Garner Raymond Webster Bryant Kathryn Ladon Gibbs Elaine Cannon Mary Jane Married Married Repositories Married A Motes 144 Garner Lewis Anderson Garner Walter E 749 749 The Family List View displays a list of all families in the database see Fig 2 9 From this view you may add edit or delete families The default display lists the ID Father Mother Relationship and Marriage Date Children cannot be displayed on the screen in this view Remove button 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 From Gramps Ancestry Category The Ancestry Category shows several graphical representations of the ancestry of the active person By default Gramps shows the Pedigree View With the Fan Chart View be ing selectable from the toolbar Installation of additional downloadable addons contain extra views Pedigree View Untitled s ordi GHARIPS file Edit view Go Bookmarks Reports Tools Help a New Open Back a People 4 Relationships amp Family List Garner joseph i a Pedigree ad 1792 af Ti E Events _ e
132. eparate save command You can undo changes you have made by selecting the menu Edit gt Undo If you se lect this command repeatedly your most recent changes will be undone one at a time To roll back multiple commands at a time you can use the menu Edit dialog If you want to return your Family Tree to the way it was when you opened it select the menu Family Trees gt Abandon Changes and Quit This is just like quitting without saving in other programs If you would like to save a copy of your Family Tree under a different name you will need to export it and then import it into a new Family Tree The Gramps XML database format is recommended for this purpose Importing data Importing allows you to bring data from other genealogy programs into a Gramps data base Currently Gramps can import data from the following formats e Gramps XML gramps file extension e Gramps XML Package gpkg file extension e GRAMPS CSV Spreadsheet comma separated values csv file extension e GRAMPS V2 x database grdb file extension e GEDCOM ged file extension e GeneWeb gw file extension Pro Gen def file extension Importing vs opening ami Please recognize that importing a database is different we from opening a database When you import you are ac tually bringing data from one database into a Gramps database When you open a file you are editing your original file To import data select the menu Family Tree
133. eports if you choose so among the report generation options e 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 select ed from the list e 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 con secutive new lines i e an empty line denote a new paragraph Selecting Prefor matted will honor all multiple spaces tabs and new lines so that the output will appear as it is entered into the text entry field Addresses Addresses are edited through the following Address Editor dialog The top part 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 editi
134. erences Event references connect a Event to a person and allow you to provide additional infor mation about the event When adding event reference to person the following dialog appears The dialog includes two main headings Event selection and Event details e The Event selection displays General Sources Attributes Notes Gallery References e The Event details section indicates the details associated with the particular reference to this Event Role Notes Attributes Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Entering and editing data detailed part 2 eS E Event Reference Editor GRAMPS Reference information General Notes Attributes Role Primary v Shared information General Yi Sources attributes Notes Gallery References Event type Occupation T Date 3 April 1861 Kal ID a Place Wednesbury Staffordshire P0000 E Description Labourerin an Iron Works Note Any changesin the shared event information will be reflected in the event itself for all participants in the event af Cancel of ox j Gj Heip Fig 5 16 Event information For the role of the person in this event use Primary for the main beneficiary use a de scriptive role otherwise Eg Witness Celebrant Tip Information in this dialog is specific to the particular reference A single event can be referenced many times and all such references will have in common the overall e
135. erving an archive because archives disappear if the originating tree is deleted and they are not incorporated into a Portable Gramps XML export of the tree 02d 3 aye Stracting a Family Tree Archive Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Manage Family Trees 5 exte Family US GRAMPS x Family tree name Status Last modified ES Wed Jun 20 21 49 17 2007 L New Herbie s changes Thu Jun 21 04 07 01 2007 Aersaaimport Thujun2104 0522207 Sete Sample Wed Jun 20 21 49 03 2007 v Gramps Example Rename Restore Ed close Window Fig 3 3 Selecting a version to extract Simply highlight the archive you want to restore and select the Extract button a Family irees SGRAMPS Family tree name Status Last modified Wed Jun 20 21 49 17 2007 Thu Jun 21 04 07 01 2007 Thu Jun 21 04 06 22 2007 Wed Jun 20 22 12 34 2007 Wed Jun 20 21 49 03 2007 v Gramps Example Fe Herbie s changes After XML import Gramps Example After XML import Sample Ed close Window i Fig 3 3 Extracted version Gramps will transfer the archive into a new Family Tree The Family Tree name is based on the original name and the archive name see also Archiving a Family Tree From Gramps Unlocking a Family Tree When Gramps opens a tree it locks the tree preventing you or anyone else opening it at the same time A second copy of Gramps will be able to open another family tree but the tree already open will appear with th
136. ettings Modularity and plugins Views are now real plugins Gramps 3 3 is more modular and flexible See plugins manager and Addons t Plugin Manager Gramps x Loaded Plugins Install Addons n Type Status Name Description Report Visible Book Report Produces a boc Report Visible Records Report Shows some ir Report Visible Ahnentafel Report Produces a tex Report Visible Birthday and Anniversary Report Produces a rep Report Visible Custom Text Add custom te Report Visible Descendant Report Produces a list Report Visible Detailed Ancestral Report Produces a det Report Visible Detailed Descendant Report Produces a det Report Visible End of Line Report Produces a tex Report Visible Family Group Report Produces a fan FY e e m le ta ore a a HE EE a m J gt Info Hide Unhide edit load E cose Reload Fig The plugins manager Registered plugins Loaded plugins Type Hidden Name Description Quickreport Hidden Age on Date Display people and ages on a particular date J Gramplet Visible Age on Date Gramplet Gramplet visible Age Stats Gramplet Report Hidden Ahnentafel Report Produces a textual ancestral report Quickreport Visible All Events Display a person s events both personal and fa Quickreport Hidden All Events Display the family and family members events Quickreport Visible All Names of All People All names of all people
137. ex codes for the names of people in the database Please vis it the NARA Soundex Indexing page to learn more about Soundex Indexing System Soundex what is this Soundex is the most widely known of all phonetic algorithms which allow indexing of words by their sound as pronounced in English The Soundex is a coded surname last name index based on the way a surname sounds rather than the way it is spelled Surnames that sound the same but are spelled differently like SMITH and SMYTH have the same code and are filed together The From Gramps Soundex coding system was developed so that you can find a surname even though it may have been recorded under various spellings First applied to the 1880 census Soundex is a phonetic index not a strictly alpha betical one Its key feature is that it codes surnames last names based on the way a name sounds rather than on how it is spelled It was to help researchers find a surname quickly even though it may have received different spellings Those doing census lookups must use the same method to encode surnames as the census takers did when they generated the database To search for a particular surname you must first work out its code e Basic Soundex Coding Rule Every Soundex code consists of a letter and three numbers such as W 252 The letter is always the first letter of the surname The numbers are assigned to the remaining letters of the surname according to the Soundex guide show
138. extra information will look like this Oe FDL FREE DOC LICENSE Example Note iii Notes will look like this oe 1 MediaWiki This page was last modified on 26 October 2011 at 21 37 This page has been accessed 1 622 times Content is available under GNU Free Documentation License 1 2 Privacy policy About Gramps Disclaimers From Gramps Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual What s new Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual What s new From Gramps Jump to navigation search Special copyright notice All edits to this page need to be under two different copyright licenses GNU Free Documentation License 1 2 see wiki copyright GPL see manual copyright These licenses allow the Gramps project to maximally use this wiki manual as free content in future Gramps versions If you do not agree with this dual li cense then do not edit this page You may only link to other pages within the wiki which fall only under the GFDL license via external links using the syn tax http www gramps project org not via internal links Also only use the known conventions Previous Index Next This section gives an overview of changes since Gramps version 3 2 These changes are also detailed later in this manual Users of Gramps version 3 2 are encouraged to review this section to be sure to take advantage of these new features Before you upgrade Warning Creating an archive alone to safeguard your data might not be appropriate before upgrading
139. f a subset of your Gramps data in a simple spreadsheet format See CSV Import and Export for more information Exporting data aaa This page s factual accuracy may be compromised due to out of date information Please help improve the Gramps Wiki as a useful resource by updating it TODO Need to update this content Images out of date Exporting allows you to share any portion of your Gramps database with other re searchers as well as to enable you to transfer your data to another computer Currently Gramps can export data to the following formats Gramps XML GEDCOM Gramps XML Package Web Family Tree GeneWeb and CSV Spreadsheet formats Export is saving a copy mu When you export you are saving a copy of the current af ly 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 From Gramps Export Assistant GRAMPS Choosing the format to save GRAMPS GRADBE database C GEDCOM O GRAMPS XML database C Export to CD portable XML O GRAMPS package portable XML O vCard O vCalendar Web Family Tee O GeneWeb At cancel a Back mi Forward Fig 3 5 Export assistant format selection your export Additional editing of the currently opened database will not alter the copy produced by the export To export data choose Menu Family Trees gt Export This wil
140. f the Active Person is in bold style Other names are shown either with or without bold and italic emphasis depending on whether certain relationships exist for the named person For a person listed as a parent or spouse of the Active Person the name is emphasized if that person has a parent family For a person listed as a sibling or child of the Active Person the name is emphasized if that person has children Dates are normally in regular style and in italic style if the displayed event is a fall back event i e a substitute event for another missing event That may be christening event for birth event burial event for death event etc The Relationships View displays the following sections e Active Person At the top of the screen name ID birth and death information calculated age 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 andan Edit button Clicking the Edit button will allow you to edit all of the person s individual informationinan Edit Person dialog From Gramps e Parents The next section the Parents section displays 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 bi
141. ftware package whi 7 Peters 2 21 Ta are free to make copie 8 Naff 1 17 a Medi distribute it to anyone 9 Thompson 1 15 developed and maintai 10 Church 1 15 R tori worldwide team of vol a Eposirories Whose goal is to make f HMetainmimnn cram nn na owerful yet easy to FA Notes P i y Getting Started The first thing you must do is to create a new Family Tree To create Y 10363 Blank Douglas Scott You can drag the Properties button top left of each Gramplet to move it around the Gramplet View area You can click the Properties button to detach the Gramplet from Gramplet View and place it in its own window The window will stay open regardless of page relationship ancestry etc Closing the detached view will put it back onto the Gramplets view If you quit Gramps with a open gramplet when you start gramps again it will open automatically When one or more Gramplets are undocked from the Gramplet View you can change to a different view such as the People or Ancestry Views In this way you can use these gramplets to supplement a particular view with additional details and func tionality provided by the gramplet You can add new gramplets by right clicking on an open space on Gramplets You can also change the number of columns by right clicking an open area on the Gramplets page Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Gramplets sa This page s factual accuracy may be compromised z due to out of date i
142. gorian calendar as default displayed calendar users will have a better coherency for displaying dates on period Surname Guessing This option affects the initial family name of a child when he she is added to the database 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 Finally 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 Tip This option only affects the initial family name guessed by Gramps when the Edit Person dialog is launched You can modify that name the way you see fit Set this option to the value that you will most fre quently use as it will save you a lot of typing e Status bar This option controls the information displayed in the status bar This can be either the Active person s name and ID or Relationship to home person e 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 Text juan This page s factual accuracy may be compromised due to out of date information Please help improve the Gramps Wiki as a useful resource by updating it This category contains preferences relevant to how missing and pri
143. he Editor and see your changes in the People View View pasah Column Editor a The Column Editor is available in all Views and works the same way in each Filters Genealogical databases can contain information on many people families places and objects It is therefore possible for a View to contain a long list of data that is 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 From Gramps Drag and drop the columns to change the order Display Column Name Name ID Birth Date O Birth Place Death Date O Death Place Pj Spouse Last Changed EE ee Fig 2 5 Column Editor Dialog 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 click ing the Find button will display only lines that match the text Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Main Window 4 Family Iree T GRAMPS Sark Family Trees Edit View Go Bookmarks Reports Tools Help 5 os a 2 Family Trees Back Home Clipboard Reports Tools Add Edit Remove E Gramplets Name ID Gender Filter x Gar
144. he path Selecting this radio button will bring up a Replace substring settings window where you can type in any string inthe Replace textfieldandthe With text field At any time you canclick onthe Cancel buttonorthe Back button Clicking the Forward buttonwillbringupthe Final confirmation window e Convert paths from relative to absolute e Convert paths from absolute to relative Not Related dt Not related to John Joseph Garner GRAMPS Ea Not related to John Joseph Garner Name Y ID Parents Marker v Adams v Anderson Anderson Jennifer 116 v Andrews y CEEE Ria War er fee LEDD iy Marker NotRelated IM Apply 7 Help X Close Fig 4 10 Not related This report will find people who are not related to the selected person You vill geta Not related to window which shows a list of all the people that are NOT related to the selected person This list gives you e Name From Gramps ID e Parents e Marker Withthe right arrow buttonand down arrow button you can collapse or expand the list Double clicking on a person will bring up the detailed person edit window or family edit window If you select a person you can use the Marker text field 3 choices are possible blank you can fill in whatever suits you TODO and NotRelated With the Apply you can apply the selected marker to the person This marker will then show up in the right hand side column Relationship cal
145. hen an attribute is selected from the list e 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 edit the text in the text entry field e 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 anaana Only primary objects can be shown in the Refer A ences tab Person Family Event Source or Place The secondary objects such as Names and Attributes al though able to refer the media object will only show up through their primary objects to which they belong Editing media object references When Media Object references connect a Media Object to an other object the following dialog appears Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Entering and editing data detailed part 2 Media Reference Editor GRAMPS Sources Attributes Notes Referenced Region Corner 1 X 13 Y E B Corner 2 X 35 B Y 46 B Preview Shared Information G References Attributes Notes bwo S A General Preview ID Edwin amp Janice Smith Title
146. his gramplet is handy because you can very quickly change the active person or edit the object from the session list Statistics Gramplet asooo This page s factual accuracy may be compromised due to out of date information Please help improve the Gramps Wiki as a useful resource by updating it Al 3 Statistics Individuals Number of individuals 932 Males 494 Females 416 Individuals with unknown gender 22 Individuals with incomplete names 8 Individuals missing birth dates 42 Disconnected individuals 13 Family Information Number of families 279 Unique surnames 231 Media Objects s Fig 7 17 Statistics Gramplet Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Gramplets The Statistics gramplet runs a Statistics report Double click the phrases to bring up the matching items Following information is provided to you in this Gramplet Individuals e Number of individuals e Males e Females e Individuals with unknown gender Individuals with incomplete names e Individuals with missing birth dates e Disconnected individuals e Family information e Number of families e Unique surnames e Media objects e Individuals with media objects Total numbers of media object references e Number of unique media objects e Total size of media objects e Missing Media Objects As with all Gramplets if you click on the left hand side Tool button you detach the window and if you add persons to your family tree you will see the amount
147. i manual as free content in future Gramps versions If you do not agree with this dual li cense then do not edit this page You may only link to other pages within the wiki which fall only under the GFDL license via external links using the syn tax http www gramps project org not via internal links Also only use the known conventions Previous Index Next List Views Common bindings The following bindings are available in all views Key Function CTRL N Changes the view to the next view category CTRL P Changes the view to the previous view category CTRL M Close the navigator panel left sidebar Changes the view to view number 1 2 in this view cate CTRL H 1 2 gory CTRL B Open the Clipboard CTRL D Add the selected item as a bookmark Shift CTRL D Organize the bookmarks CTRL H Open the Undo History dialog CTRL J Jump to an ID ALT Left arrow Move to previous item in history ALT Right ar Move to next item in history row Shift CTRL C Configure active view Shift CTRL R Toggle the right gramplet sidebar Shift CTRL B Toggle the bottom gramplet sidebar All List Views bindings The following bindings are available in all list views People Family List Events Sources Places Media Repositories and Notes View Key Function a Enter Edits the selected list item CTRL Insert Adds a new item to the database CTRL
148. ic view retry the internet connection Like this the Geographic view will become active the moment your internet connection returns without you needing to take manual action From Gramps Media Category if Family free IT GRAMPS ly Family Trees Edit View Bookmarks Reports Tools Help 46 5 ow z E ail Family Trees Clipboard Reports Tools Add Edit Remove View E Gramplets a People Ga Relationships Families Title contains v Q Eind Clea amp Gera dc E te Pedigree Title Path 4 am Events 185 900 j scan i 1897_expeditionsmannscha 00010 image jpeg 1897_expeditionsmannscha A A 654px Aksel_Andersson 00008 image jpeg 654px Aksel_Andersson jpg Places Alimehemet 00006 image jpeg Alimehemet jpg AntoineClaudet 00011 image png AntoineClaudet png Media Arriving 1910 ol image jpeg OL jpg Repositories Edwin amp Janice Smith 05 image jpeg O5 jpg Edwin Michael Smith 03 image jpeg O3 jpg Z Notes rome T pan m 144 Garner Lewis Anderson 13 13 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 liststhe Name ID Type and Path of the Media Object The Column Editor dialog may be used to rearrange the
149. idual summaries similar to that of the Individual Summary Report Descendent Report The Descendant Report presents the descendants of the Active Person with a brief de scription in intended style Detailed Ancestral Report The Detailed Ancestral Report covers in detail the ancestors of the Active Person in cluding a range of vital data as well as marriages Detailed Descendant Report The Detailed Descendant Report covers in detail the descendants of the Active Person by generation following the genealogical tradition of textual descendant reports by From Gramps generation It aims to provide all important features expected to be found in these clas sic descendency formats and has received influence from various sources End of Line Report The End of Line Report provides a list of of the person s last known ancestors with the pedigree line ordered by generations Family Group Report The Family Group Report creates a family group report showing information on a set of parents and their children Kinship Report Kinship Report provides the kinship of selected person according to level search hight down generations set by the user Tag Report The Tag Report lists primary objects persons families and notes who match the se lected tag It was formerly called the marker report in 3 2 gramps Number of Ancestors The Number of Ancestors displays the number of ancestors of the Active
150. iew and record the various addresses of the reposi tory 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 ad dress record from the database Note thatthe Edit and able only when an address is selected from the list Internet The Internet tab displays Internet addresses relevant to the repository The bot tom part lists all such Internet addresses and accompanying descriptions The top part shows the details of the currently selected addresses in the list if any The buttons buttons become avail Edit and let you add modify and remove an Internet address The Go but ton represented by an icon having a green arrow and yellow circle opens your web Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Entering and editing data detailed part 2 browser and takes you directly to the highlighted page Note that the Edit and buttons become available only when an address is selected from the list Note The Note tab provides a place to record notes or comments about the repository To add a note or modify existing notes simply edit the text in the text entry field e References The References tab indicates any database records that refer to a given reposi tory The list can be ordered according to any of its column headings Type ID or Name
151. iew shows the ancestry but as a pie chart Clicking on a name in the chart will dou ble the section of the pie allocated to that person A second click brings the chart back to the original form Right click brings up a context menu like in the pedigree view al lowing to navigate to other people This view enables to see large ancestries in a more compact manner and to see very quickly which parts of an ancestry need further research You can rotate the view by click and drag outside the fan chart You can move the view by click and drag inside the inner white region 10 View Go Bookmarks Reports Edwards Lucy 1792 m 3 1 1823 17 1 1799 2 4 1879 E a 8 s amp Garner Joseph f ES w q R Garner Robert W 1826 7 04 24 Julien 3 2 1916 10044 Garner von Zielinski Lewis Anderson Sr Fig 2 13 Pedigree view 3 Events Family Trees Edit E Family Trees E Gramplets a People amp Relationships go Families S Pedigree IE Events Ai Sources Places Media Repositories EA Notes Category ae ools 0 O7 4go F Help Fa LWectakos George Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Main Window Daniels Phoebe vers 0 9 1784 mo IE 9 3 1864 m 4 10 1849 Zielinski Phoebe Emily 12 4 1827 7 3 1882 Family free 1 GRAMPS e meas View Bookmarks Reports Tools Help g p ox Bn Clipboard Reports Tools Add
152. ig 5 7 Gallery Path Description ole The Gallery tab lets you view and store photos videos and other media Web Home httpy wwwgramps project o GRAMPS home page 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 X Cancel Baw Fig 5 8 Internet From Gramps The Internet tab displays Internet addresses relevant to the person A descriptive caption of the Internet location you are storing Type of internet address as needed to navigate to it eg http gramps project org E mail Web Page The bottom part lists all such Internet 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 youadd 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 thatthe Edit and buttons become available only when an address is selected from the list e Associations edit Person GHAMIPS Prefenred name Family Gamer Pretix Call Name Given Lewis Anderson Title Type Birth Name General Gender male I
153. iki Manual Entering and editing data detailed part 3 Attribute Editor GRAMPS Attribute Social Security Number 123 456 7890 Sources Notes Value amp Author Fig 5 25 Attribute editor the changes made in all tabs and close the dialog window Clicking the Cancel but ton at any time will close the window without applying any changes Tip The tab labels reflect the presence of corresponding in formation if the tab contains any data its label appears boldface if the tab has no data then its label appears regular not bold The top tab allows editing of the most general information about the attribute 1 Thenameofan Attribute you want to use For example Height for a person Weather on this Day for an event Use this to store snippets of information you collect and want to correctly link to sources Attributes can be used for people families events and media 2 The Value ofthe attribute Eg 1 8m Sunny or Blue eyes The information can be typed in the appropriate text entry fields The attribute name can also be selected from available choices if any listed inthe Attribute drop down menu From Gramps DOOD Note ee Some predefined attributes are present because the are defined in the GEDCOM standard 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 r
154. ilable under GNU Free Documentation License 1 2 Privacy FREE DOC policy About Gramps Disclaimers From Gramps Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Filters From Gramps Jump to navigation search 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 tools util cfe The rules are listed by their categories Special copyright notice All edits to this page need to be under two different copyright licenses e GNU Free Documentation License 1 2 see wiki copyright e GPL see manual copyright E These licenses allow the Gramps project to maximally use this wiki manual as free content in future Gramps versions If you do not agree with this dual li cense then do not edit this page You may only link to other pages within the wiki which fall only under the GFDL license via external links using the syn tax http www gramps project org not via internal links Also only use the known conventions Previous Index Next You can carry out a considerable amount of selection of persons events places etc just using the Filter Sidebar in Person Event Place etc Views but note however that the Use regular expressions option only works with particular fields in each View If the Filter Sidebar is inadequate for your purpose you will need to build custom filters Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Filters Custom Filter Editor Custom rules mig
155. ilenames with appropriate f options gramps i filel ged f gedcom i file2 gpkg f gramps pkg i db To record the database resulting from all imports supply e flag use f if the filename does not allow Gramps to guess the format gramps i filel ged i file2 gpkg e new package f gramps pkg To save any error messages of the above example into files outfile and errfile run gramps i filel ged i file2 dpkg e new package f gramps pkg From Gramps Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Command Line e To import three databases and start interactive Gramps session with the result e Finally to start normal interactive session type gramps i filel ged i file2 gpkg i db3 gramps gramps To open a database and based on that data generate timeline report in PDF format putting the output into the my_timeline pdf file Environment variables Gramps can take advantage of these environment variables but do not change them if gramps O Family Tree 1 a report p name timeline of f pdg y d nOYkriow WhahareHSe doing e GRAMPSHOME if set override default path to profile allowing user to use ex network drive to store data and all settings For technically advanced users who run multiple versions of Gramps setting a different 6RAMPSHOME is a way to avoid interference between the different versions in the Gramps user directory e LANG is used by Gramps to determine which language file should be loaded Listing report opt
156. ily Provides the template for generating IDs for a Family Default value F 04d e Place Provides the template for generating IDs for a Place Default value P 04d e Source Provides the template for generating IDs for a Source Default value 04d e Media Object Provides the template for generating IDs for a Media Object Default value 0 04d e Event Provides the template for generating IDs for an Event Default value E 04d e Repository Provides the template for generating IDs for a Repository Default value R 04d e Note Provides the template for generating IDs for a Note Default value N 04d ID Prefixes 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 From Gramps Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Settings te Preference ta Preferences GRAMPS General Database Display Text ID Formats Dates Warnings Researcher Marki General Database Display Text ID Formats Dat Suppress warning when adding parents to a child O Suppress warning when cancelling with changed data Person I 04d O Suppress warning about missing researcher when exporting to GEDCOM O Show plugin status dialog on plugin load error Family F 04d Place P 04d Source s 04d Media Object 0 04d Event E 04d Researcher Information E Preferences GRAMPS Repository R 04d Note
157. in Window E familietest GRAMPS ox Farnily Trees Edit View Baports Tools Help r Fh P E Gramplets People Relationships Families Pedigree Events AySources Places Media Repositories BNotes amp Python Sheil Python 2 5 1 F251 54B63 Oct 5 2007 13 36 32 GCC 4 1 3 20070029 prerelease Ubuntu 4 1 2 L ubuntu2 X Calendar X Sumame Cloud 1 sdam Amerlinck Amerlinck Bastisensen Bauwel Beeck Bock Boeyckens Bossaerts sosschaert 1 2008 gt i februan gt 1 2 3 j 5 6 7 amp 8 1 Bosschaerts bunder aurm 11 2 13 e 5 w r Cassiers Claessens Clerck 3 19 2 a 2 23 4 Cleuvenberghen cek 35 25 27 8 28 cuytaerts DAMME Daciels Decker Deckers Dierickx Dilis Dobbeleers Erkel Ferket Frens Florus Geerts Gisel Goeman Goossens Harneveldt Hellemans Helsen Helland Heybserk Hoeck Hove ljsebaert Jacobs Janssens Jonckheere jorens Joris A Log sesse Log for this Session X Statistics 1 Da a aa Selected de Rechter Petrus Alexander Kamoen Kerckhove Keulemans ndeiduals D anan I Koninck LENS tombaerde Number of indneduals 3577 e Anr o o adanan e E Fasasaas l m la a al I Fig 2 4 Gramplets view e Age Stats Gramplet see age span graphs e Attributes Gramplets see active person s attributes e Calendar Gramplet see people s events on a particular date or in a month in the past e Descendants Gramplet see the active person s descendants e Fan Chart G
158. ink to the Frequently Asked Questions about Gramps e Key Bindings A link to the Keybindings reference for Gramps Also known as Keyboard shortcuts Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Getting started e Tip of the day Displays the Tip of the day dialog e Plugin Manager From this menu you can manage the plugins you may have added e Gramps Home Page This item opens your web browser and connects to the Gramps project web site e Gramps Mailing Lists This item opens your web browser to the Gramps mailing list page On this page you can browse the mailing list archives and join the gramps users mailing list so you can share your experiences with other Gramps user s e Report a Bug Choose this item to file a bug report in the Gramps 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 you and everyone elses benefit Extra Reports Tools A link to the Installing Addons in Gramps e About This item displays a dialog with general information about the Gramps version you are running Previous Index Next Free FOL FREE DOC LICENSE iy Premi By LE Neciawik This page was last modified on 29 October 2011 at 08 37 This page has been accessed 2 071 times Content is available under GNU Free Documentation License 1 2 Privacy policy About Gramps Disclaimers From Gramps Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Main Window Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Main Win
159. ion about relationships 2 Entering and editing data detailed part 2 1 U A UO DN e a E Editing information about events Editing event references Editing information about media objects Editing media object references Editing information about places 1 Supported longitude latitude formats Editing information about sources Editing source references Editing information about repositories Editing information about notes 1 Note tab 2 Note editor 3 Note markup and preformat in reports 3 Entering and editing data detailed part 3 I Name Editor 1 Type 2 Given Names Section 3 Family Names Section 4 General tab 5 Sources tab 6 Note tab 2 Attributes 3 Addresses 4 7 Navigation Merging records 1 Merge People Merge Families Merge Events Merge Sources Merge Places Merge Media Objects Merge Repositories Merge Notes ea ea eet a 1 Using the People View From Gramps Using the Family View Using the Ancestry Views Setting the Home Person Using history based tools Bookmarks Finding records Using the Clipboard Windows Menu Tagging 1 Concept 2 Differences with markers 3 Tags and Filters 4 Operations with tags 1 Filtering 2 Tagging a selection of objects 3 Tags Column S a oe ee m ad 8 Plugin Manager 1 Plugin types 2 Registration and loading 3 Hide Unhide 10 4 Actions 1 Registered Plugins 2 Loaded Plugins 3 Install Addons 9 Gramplets 1 Grample
160. ions Use the name timeline show all to find out about all available options for the timeline report To find out details of a particular option use show op CLO Menie 5 e Weivie c ine Line SION Oise string To learn about available report names use Previous Index Next name show string GNU FOL e To convert a grdb on the fly to a gramps xml file FREE DOC gramps O Family Tree 1 e output gramps f gramps xml BRE ecto To generate a web site into an other locale in german This page was last modified on 26 October 2011 at 13 00 This page has been accessed 829 times Content is available under GNU Free Documentation License 1 2 Privacy LANGUAGE de_ DE LANG de_DE UTF 8 gramps O Family Tree 1 a pelicyiAboubGramesDisclaiatepage target de From Gramps Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual About From Gramps Jump to navigation search Previous About Special copyright notice All edits to this page need to be under two different copyright licenses e GNU Free Documentation License 1 2 see wiki copyright e GPL see manual copyright These licenses allow the Gramps project to maximally use this wiki manual as free content in future Gramps versions If you do not agree with this dual li cense then do not edit this page You may only link to other pages within the wiki which fall only under the GFDL license via external links using the syn tax http www gramps project org not via internal links Als
161. ips v USA uA AK Families b AL CE Ancestry gt AR b AR OK E Events v AZ Places gt Cochise cc er m k a C b oi b Gila PX Sources gt Graham F Repositories Pa Maricona b Mohave SS media gt Pima Ei mates b Santa Cruz fan b Yuma Web gt CA b co No active place Place Tree View 877 877 Fig 2 21 Places TreeView 43 Family Tree Gramps tak Family Trees Edit View Go Bookmarks Reports Tools Help 4g BG ul B 19 BEIR E Gramplets Place Name contains Q Rechercher d Effacer amp People Place Name v ID Street City State A amp Relationships Aberdeen SD P1643 Aberdeen SD p on Aberdeen WA P1131 Aberdeen WA Families Ada OK P1366 Ada OK 4 3 Ancestry Adjuntas PR P1293 Adjuntas PR Adrian MI P0861 Adrian MI 2 Events 5 E Aguadilla PR P0962 Aguadilla PR Q Places Akron OH P1130 Akron OH Al d M P1325 Al rdi NM q Geography amogordo N jamogordo Albany GA P0970 Albany GA PR Sources Albany NY P1446 Albany NY Repositories Albany OR P1085 Albany OR Albert Lea MN P1260 Albert Lea MN B media Albertville AL P0866 Albertville AL Ei Notes Albuquerque NM P1398 Albuquerque NM Alexandria LA P0960 Alexandria LA ic Web Alexandria MD P0894 Alexandria MD Alexandria MN P1568 Alexandria MN o No active place Places 877 877 Fig 2 22 Places ListView The two views in this category show the places grouped or ungrouped The PlaceTreeView tries to group the places in logical g
162. is opens the Organize Bookmarks dialog with the list of bookmarks and the controls to modify this list Use the Up and Down buttons to change the list sequence Use the Re move button to remove a Bookmark The Help will bring you to this page and youclosethe Organize Bookmarks windowwiththe Close button From Gramps Garner John Joseph 1186 1186 11047 1180 Garner Jason Richard 11047 Garner Kathryn Mary 1180 Fig 6 1 Organize Bookmarks The Bookmarked People can be selected through the People View as explained above but also through the Relationships View Families View and the Pedigree View On a similar basis you can also Bookmark Events Sources Places Media Reposito ries and Notes Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Navigation Finding records h OmoN aAa GRAPS He Edi view Go Bookmarks Beports Took Help E E J y B Now Goan Back Hore ScratchPad Faports Took Add Edt Ramo ib People Name contains cera B clear Ralateors haps z amp P Mame IG Gender Birth Cate Death Date Farik List 4 j Hihaak a Pedigme Michaela Evelpn i13 female abaut 1087 E Everts b Piels L e o Berns Alce Poula 134 female Lijfe2risaa A SLB T Smth io Masaa j a Srnith Amber Mana Iz femak 41131955 4 Meda Sth Astrid Sharmanna 23 famak Lislless L2y211963 ie Pepositornes grmi Can Ernil i Fral a eda a a Lite lease Sraith Craig Peter a Pra S altar 1964 ralh Baan Mac haa lar r
163. isplay photos and other media objects asso ciated with a given source for example a photo of a birth certificate The central part of the window lists all such objects and gives you a thumbnail preview of image files Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Entering and editing data detailed part 2 Other objects such as audio files movie files etc are represented by a generic Gramps icon The buttons Select Edit and let youadd anew image adda 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 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 differ ence 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 e 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 hea
164. ke or when new information reveals that the two entries refer to Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Entering and editing data detailed part 3 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 Tip To make a merge exactly two records have to be select ed 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 the ctrl key Merge People Merging two people is done from the Edit menu Note Merging people does not discard any information The decisions you make during the merge only affect which data will become primary and which will become sec ondary for the resulting merged record ral e e Merge When exactly two people are selected choose Edit gt Merge to invoke the Merge dialog 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 button to close the dialog without making any changes Ex panding the Detailed Selection and the Context Information fields on the bottom left fig 5 27 shows more information about the people to be merged If you decide to proceed with merging select the ap
165. l bring upthe Export Assistant Its pages will guide you through the format selection see Fig 3 5 file selection and format specific export options After a final confirmation page the ex port will be performed according to the choices you have made At any time you can click the Back button and revise any selection and then go forward to redo the ex port Filters and privacy Gramps allows you to export a database into common file formats It provides options that allow you to fine tune your export e Filters on People and Notes Filters allow you to export a limited amount of data based on the criteria you select Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Manage Family Trees e Do not include records marked private Check this box to prevent private records from being included in the exported file e Restrict data on living people 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 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 see your settings you can exclude notes and you can exclude sources for living people Do not include not related records Check this box to prevent not related records from being included in the exported file Sometimes it is
166. l for large scale changes The Sort Events tool has been de signed specifically for this purpose re sorting all events in the database or just those associated with a targeted selection of people chosen by using a filter The first option on the Sort Events dialog window is used to define the range of peo ple who s events are to be sorted The first choice in the list is to apply the sorting to all people in the database Alternative choices are to apply sorting to ancestors and de scendants of a chosen person or to a range of people selected by a custom built per son filter After choosing who the sort should apply to the next thing to consider is how the events should be sorted The first option is to sort by date This is probably the most likely choice but other event attributes can be chosen too The final choices are whether to make the events sorted ascending or descending and whether to apply the sort to family events that the selected people belong to as well Undo history Proceeding with this tool will erase the undo history for this session In particular you will not be able to revert f the changes made by this tool or any changes made pri or to it If you think you may want to revert running this tool please stop here and backup your database Sorting events Once completed this cannot be undone by the regular Undo function Database Repair Check and repair database This tool checks the database for integrity
167. lds Check the Pri vate 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 e Sources 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 select ed from the list e Note The Note tab displays any notes concerning the address 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 con secutive new lines i e an empty line denote a new paragraph Selecting Prefor matted will honor all multiple spaces tabs and new lines so that the output will appear as it is entered into the text entry field 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 en tered twice by mista
168. le backups very useful if you want to try something that you might later want to undo However this method should not be used for standard backups as it will not survive a hard disk crash or most of the other disasters that can befall a computer For advanced users each database is stored in its own subdirectory under gramps A manual backup can be made by backing up this directory Archiving a Family Tree You can easily archive and timestamp family trees with Gramps built in use of GNU Re vision Control System or RCS For this to be possible this utility must be installed on your computer To make an archive 1 load your Family Tree 2 click onthe Toolbar Family Trees button it has the Gramps logo and displays Manage databases when you hover over it 3 click on the family tree you ve just loaded the Archive button should appear 4 clickon Archive and you will be asked for an archive name After archiving the list of family trees will now show your original family tree with a right pointing triangle on its left e Click on the triangle to display the archive name Click again to collapse the archive list Archives can be deleted renamed and Extracted If you click on an archive the Extract button becomes visible Click on this to obtain the extracted archive It will appear in the family tree list as lt name of original tree gt lt name of archive gt and is now an independent family tree This can be a useful way of pres
169. le in older versions of Gramps which were relocated in Gramps 3 3 are e summary This action was the same as Reports gt View gt Summary In Gramps 3 3 it was replaced by or renamed to a report p name summary e check This action was the same as Tools gt Database Processing gt Check and Repair In Gramps 3 3 it was replaced by or renamed to a tool p name check report action option You can generate most reports from the command line using the report action An example Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Command Line Gramps O Family Tree a report p name rtamily Group style derau or without css in the html output Gramps O Family Tree 1 a report p name Lamily croup slyle detau Report option string The report option string should satisfy the following conditions It must not contain any spaces due to the general nature of the command line interface If some arguments need to include spaces the string should be enclosed with quotation marks Option string must list pairs of option names and values Within a pair option name and value must be separated by the equal sign Different pairs must be separated by commas Most of the report options are specific for every report However there are some com mon options name report_name This mandatory option determines which report will be generated If the supplied report_name does not correspond to any available report an error message will be prin
170. line options or arguments are called lists by Gramps On the command line such lists must always start with a left square bracket and must always end with a right square bracket but since such square brackets are usually special to the shell they mean some thing to the command interpreter you are typing the command to you must escape them so that they are ignored by your shell Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Command Line The details vary with each shell but in linux UNIX usually you can precede such a square bracket with a backslash or put quotation marks around the square bracket usually either single or double ones The Hourglass Graph report allows you to put a note at the top of the report and such a note is an example of a list option Here is an example gramps O Family Tree 1 a report p name hourglass graph which shows that inside such a list different lines are separated by commas and that spaces are acceptable since the quotation marks are already there for the square brack ets But if you want to have a comma inside your report you have to somehow tell Gramps that comma is not one which separates lines You do that by enclosing the line with the comma in quotation marks either single or double But if you are already using a set of quotation marks to enclose your square brack ets you have to use the other type to enclose the line with your comma Here is an ex ample Gram
171. logy pro grams See above What standards does Gramps support The nice thing about standards is that there never is a shortage of them Gramps is test ed to support the following flavors of GEDCOM GEDCOMS 5 Brother s Keeper Family Origins Family Tree Maker Ftree GeneWeb Legacy Personal Ancestral File Pro Gen Reunion and Visual Genealogie Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual FAQ How do I import data from another genealogy program into Gramps The best way is to create a new family tree and select the import option in the file menu Here you select the GEDCOM you generated with the other program and import it Can I install Gramps on a Linux Web Server and use it via a web browser This would enable my relations worldwide to access and update it While Gramps can generate web sites it does not provide a web interface that allows for editing If this is a requirement then GeneWeb or PhpGedView are programs more likely to meet your needs Also have a look at experimental gramps connect However you may wish to ask yourself the following questions 1 Dol really want relatives or other people to directly edit my genealogy database 2 Dolimplicitly trust without verification any data that people may enter 3 Do these people have the same understanding of good genealogy practice that I have A better approach may be to provide a web form interface that allows others to enter data that is then held for your examination You can
172. lose button to merge the data if you find the two persons are duplicates Selecting the Cancel button brings you back to the list and Fix Capitalization of Family Names Capitalization changes Below is a list of the family narnes that GRAMPS can convert to correct capitalization Select the names you wish GRAMPS to convert Select Original Narne Capitalization Change McCarthy Mecarthy MeCormick Mccormick McCoy Mecoy E cancel Fig 4 5 Fix Capitalization Accept changes and close From Gramps 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 You can use this tool via menu Tools gt Family Tree Processing gt Fix Capitalization of Family Names Undo history Proceeding with this tool will erase the undo history for this session In particular you will not be able to re vert the changes made by this tool or any changes made prior to it It is recomended that you please stop here and backup your database so that you can revert the process of running this tool Youcanchoose Stop or Proceed with the tool If there where changes to Capitalization of Names you will b
173. ly v Marker 3 Place Marriage E2815 1 4 1875 Family E1657 28 6 1911 Burial lt E1658 1 7 1911 Burial Fig Events on Family editor The Events tab lets you view and edit the list of events relevant to the rela tionship The buttons Edit and let you add modify or remove an event record from the database Note thatthe Edit and buttons become available on ly when an event is selected from the list From Gramps Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Entering and editing data detailed part 1 ii Noe F Source World of the Wierd GRAMPS A Removing an event from the list does not delete that event from the database It simply removes the event Title Wo rid of the Wierd reference from this relationship Author John jacob jinglehiernerschmitt e Sources The Sources tab lets you view and edit a list of references to the sources that ID sooo7 ye provide evidence for the relationship These might be documents that refer to the re j lationship but which do not necessarily document it officially For example if Aunt Abbreviation WOTW 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 Tee Cree the memoirs as the source for this assumption x Tip riages or divorces are better filed in relation to those events under the Events tab Source Note His name is my name t
174. mage from the database To completely re move the image from the database delete it from Media View by first selecting it and then clicking the Remove icon on the toolbar To edit events sources places and repositories To add an event a source a place or a repository to the database switch to the appro priate Events View events fig Sources View sources fig Places View places fig or Repositories View repository fig Then click the Add icon on the toolbar to add the corresponding object Enter the information into Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Entering and editing data brief the Event Editor Source Editor Place Editor or Re pository Editor dialog To edit information about events sources places and repositories already present in the database switch to the appropriate 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 Previous Index Next Free FDL FREE DOL LICENSE Poreieied P BRE Mediawiki This page was last modified on 26 October 2011 at 05 30 This page has been accessed 1 214 times Content is available under GNU Free Documentation License 1 2 Privacy policy About Gramps Disclaimers From Gramps Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Entering and editing data detailed Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Entering and editing data detailed From Gramps A dialog often includes a series of notebook tabs
175. manual copyright t 4 These licenses allow the Gramps project to maximally use this wiki manual as Author f free content in future Gramps versions If you do not agree with this dual li cense then do not edit this page You may only link to other pages within the wiki which fall only under the GFDL license via external links using the syn tax http www gramps project org not via internal links Also only use the known conventions Fig 5 15 Event editor Previous Index Next J 2 The Date of the event can be an exact date a range from to between or an inexact date about f 3 The Description field gives you the opportunity to give a longer Editing information ab out events description what this event is Leave the Description empty if you want to autogenerate it with the tool Extract Event Description which uses the form event type of Surname Given name 4 The ID isa unique identifier for the event Leave this field blank to allow Gramps to generate this value automatically for new events 5 The Place canbe selected from a list of previously entered place or entered anew using the selection and add buttons Additionally you can drag and drop a place entry into this field Events are edited through the Event Editor dialog See Fig 5 15 This dialog can be accessed from either the Edit Person dialog or the Marriage Relationship dialog You can type this information
176. mariage date ltems to photograph on trip to MN Thompson joe tombstone Thompson Betty house on Longview Get copies of original pages from book from Grandma Wilkerson Call Aunt Jenny re artifacts Fig 7 19 TODO Gramplet In future versions you will be able to save links to Gramps items like people events and families This will allow you to keep a group of links that you are working on together The text is persistent between sessions The data is saved to disk when you exit Gramps You can open more TODO lists to save different kinds of topics or organize your info Change the title of the gramplet by editing the section name in gramps gramp s33 gramplets ini Top Surnames Gramplet The top surnames gramplet shows the top 10 by default used surnames The top ten is presented as follows e Surname From Gramps gt Top Surnames 1 Scott 9 86 2 Cooper 8 77 3 McKinney 7 67 4 Blank 6 59 5 Flora 4 4 6 Wilkerson 2 2 7 Peters 2 21 8 Naff 1 17 9 Thompson 1 15 10 Church 1 15 Total unique surnames 231 Total people 932 Fig 7 20 Top 10 Surnames e percentage e occurrences The list gives you also the Total unique surnames in the database as well as the total number of people in your database Double click a surname to run the Same Surnames Quick View This opens the Quick View window which gives the people with the surname you doubl
177. marks Reports Tools Help Undo Tag people with Father Ctrl Z 5 te i a os Li Family Trees Deag ee re Tools Tag A 9 Undo History Ctril H CategoryY Gender Birth Date Dea o PEES oP Add Ctri insert ke 3 Jan 1945 Edit Ctrl Return ae 31 Jul 1955 amp People Remove Saane E female 14 Mar 1972 amp Relationst t Merge P female 5 Nov 1909 corio ED Cnewns amilies aor ee Organize Tags 860 17 F a ipboar r 5 Ancestry Pe 1950 z Famous 1975 R X Preferences 2 Events Father 1880 20 ff Set Home Person Ji j Mother 876 21k Places Person Filter Editor t ji Garner Jonn Joseph TI8t 1961 i Geography Garner John Roger 1136 male 29 Oct 1925 PR Sources Garner Joseph 1104 male 1792 Ponnan Pakla a afam ann Eanna IA Pan IAA Or click the Toolbar Tag button Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Navigation Example Gramps ow db gt Tools Tag Add Edit l Gender Bi 0 New Tag Tags Organize Tags male 3 ii male 3 31 Famous female 14 Father female 3 Mother male 9J USA female 1 Nov 1860 17 Apr 1941 female 27 Apr 1950 male 20 Oct 1975 Concept 2 Organize flags Gramps Organize Tags Name Color Famous Mother Father aaa SSS Help bq close From Gramps e For people using gmail or thunderbird tags will not be something new Instead of classifying emails into folders like in Outlook Windows or Evolution Linux emails
178. merged place Centralia IL P0011 Centralia Ilinois P0038 w Detailed Selection Place 1 Place 2 Title Centralia IL _ Title Centralia Illinois Centralia Centralia Marion m Marion IL IL us WS Gramps ID POOL J Gramps ID P0038 Alternate locations sources urls media objects and notes of both places will be combined W OK Cancel Fo Help Fig 5 31 Merge places expanded Merge Repositories When exactly two repositories are selected choose Edit gt Merge to invoke Merge Repositories dialog The dialog allows you to make a decision on whether or not the selected records should be merged From Gramps 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 spec ify to be used for the merged record then click OK Merge Notes When exactly two notes are selected choose Edit gt Merge to invoke Merge Notes dialog 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 toclose the dialog without making any changes If you decide to proceed with merging choose the appropriate radio button to spec ify Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Entering and editing data detailed part 3
179. mes This tool searches the entire database and attempts to extract titles and nicknames that may be embedded in a person s Given name field If any information could be From Gramps Database Owner Editor Mame Address City State Province 7 IP Postal Code Country Phone Email Ouse Fig 4 3 Database Owner Information Ocancel ok extracted the candidates for fixing will be presented in the table You may then decide which to repair as suggested and which not to Extract Place Data from a Place Title This tool attempts to extract city state province and zip code from a place title The tools operates on places where all fields in the main location are empty The description must match the following categories New York NY 10000 Only available for e USA Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Tools 4 Extract Place data Gramps x ES Extract Place data Below is a list of Places with the possible data that can be extracted from the place title Select the places you wish Gramps to convert Select race tit ty State ZPol Cox Pie Town New Mexico Pie Town New Mexico United States of America Smut Eye Alabama Smut Eye Alabama United States of America Frogville Oklahoma Frogville Oklahoma United States of America Twitty Texas Twitty Texas United States of America Climax New York Climax New York United States of America United States of America Al Seaton Dump
180. mps will assume the whitespace and enters you used in the notes are important Use this for tables literal transcripts Use monospace font to keep preformatting Try not to use preformatted if you do not need it the reports you create will be more beautifull e Privacy ason the other objects you can indicate a note as private so as to make sure you can remove this note from all output Gramps creates with one easy click e References The References tab indicates any objects that refer to a given note 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 HTML links If you add links to webpages with the full address in a note the link will turn blue and underlined when you hover your mouse over the text Clicking the link opens the webpage in your default browser Note markup and preformat in reports Markup like bold color underline can be added to notes A note can be preformatted or not It depends on the output type how this markup will appear Here an overview is given of what you can expect From Gramps 1 Pdf and direct print to printer or to file fully support the markup and the preformatted setting 2 ascii print removes all markup from the notes for obvious reasons LaTeX output interprets the markup to its best of possibilities LaTeX is not well suited as a typesetting language to add cust
181. n merging part of GEPS009 Sidebar bottombar 5 e New Individual Editor 6 7 e Geography Enhanced Pedigree View 8 and support config on views into ancestry category 3710 e Substitution Keys e Draw reports Ancestor3 3 Descendant3 3 Page_size3 3 From Gramps Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual What s new Exporter has added control of filters and proxies also has method for seeing intermediate results along the filtering process e New simple backup option on menu New gramplets and performance improvements Pedigree gramplet e Url style on Note object internal uri GNU EDL e Automatic check for update Addons FREE DOCE e New filter rules e Complete tooltips on editors and manual eed MediaWiki e Use language selector on detailled reports enhancement on place report translated holiday names numbering system alternatives on descendant report 3635 better support for win32 mac packages cleanup need python 2 6 or later new translations Ukrainian Portuguese from Portugal etc Previous Index Next This page was last modified on 29 October 2011 at 22 02 This page has been accessed 3 768 times Content is available under GNU Free Documentation License 1 2 Privacy policy About Gramps Disclaimers From Gramps Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Getting started Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Getting started From Gramps Jump to navigation search In this chapter we ll begin with the basics We ll show you how to
182. n below Zeroes are added at the end if necessary to produce a four character code Additional letters are disre garded Examples Washington is coded W 252 W 2 for the S 5 for the N 2 for the G remaining letters disregarded Lee is coded L 000 L 000 added Number Represents the Letters Disregard the letters A E I O U H W and Y e Additional Soundex Coding Rules e Names With Double Letters If the surname has any double letters they should be treated as one letter For example e Gutierrez is coded G 362 G 3 for the T 6 for the first R second R ignored 2 for the Z e Names with Letters Side by Side that have the Same Soundex Code Number If the surname has different letters side by side that have the same number in the Soundex coding guide they should be treated as one letter Examples Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Tools e Pfister is coded as P 236 P F ignored 2 for the S 3 for the T 6 for the R e Jackson is coded as J 250 J 2 for the C K ignored S ignored 5 for the N 0 added Tymcezak is coded as T 522 T 5 for the M 2 for the C Z ignored 2 for the K Since the vowel A separates the Z and K the K is coded e Names with Prefixes If a surname has a prefix such as Van Con De Di La or Le code both with and without the prefix because the surname might be listed under either code Note however that Mc and Mac are not considered prefixes For example VanDeusen might be coded two ways
183. n of the credibility of a piece of information based upon its supporting evidence It is not intended to eliminate the receiver s need to evaluate the evidence for themselves 1 Very Low Unreliable evidence or estimated data 2 Low Questionable reliability of evidence interviews census oral genealogies or potential for bias for example an autobiography 3 High Secondary evidence data officially recorded sometime after event 4 Very High Direct and primary evidence used or by dominance of the evidence Tip 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 com ments confidence page numbers etc to further spec ify and document the reference Editing information about repositories There 3 top fields text entry fields 1 The Name ofthe repository where sources are stored From Gramps 2 ID an unique record to identify the repository Leave generated by Gramps 3 The Type of repository eg Library Album X Repository Ancestry GRAMPS Name Ancestry Type web site ID i Addresses 2 Internet Notes 3 References http www ancestry co uk Web Home J Heip Fig 5 22 Repository editor X Cancel oP o e Addresses The Addresses tab lets you v
184. n the wiki which fall only under the GFDL license via external links using the syn tax http www gramps project org not via internal links Also only use the known conventions Previous Index Next Using the People View The most intuitive way to select an Active Person is to use the People Category When in the People View just select the name of the desired person from the list by clicking Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Navigation that list entry The person you have selected becomes active The statusbar updates to reflect the change of the active person Using the Family View When in the Relationships you can easily navigate between the members of the dis played family as follows 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 box and select Make the selected spouse an Active Person item from the context menu 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 per son s parents box and select Make the selected parents the ac tive family item fromthe context menu To make the currently selected spouse s parents the active family thereby making father the Active Person and mother the selected spouse click
185. n the Parish 5 The villageor City where the place is The lowest level of a place division isthe Street name e Alternative locations 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 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 e 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 e Sources The Sources tab lets you view and edit sources relevant to a place The central part of the window lists all such source references stored in the database The buttons Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Entering and editing data detailed part 2 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 e Gallery The Gallery tab lets you store and display photos and other media objects associ ated 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 et
186. nager can get additional Addons for you Check the list of the available reports here Here you can see the other gramplets available on this moment From Gramps e Data Entry Gramplet edit active person s name birth date and place death date and place and add people e Note Gramplet see and edit active person s primary Person Note e Headline News Gramplet current breaking news from Gramps e FAQGramplet frequently asked questions e Python Gramplet a Python shell If a link in a Gramplet is to a specific person then clicking the link will change the Ac tive Person Double clicking such any link to a specific Gramps item such as person or family will bring up the Editor for that item To edit a linked person without chang ing the Active Person right click on the person link Depending on the type of entry double clicking any row in a Quick View table will either select more specific data drill down or bring up the editor This section will describe each gramplet and its basic functionality Changing settings You can change the settings of the Gramplets by editing your gramps gramplets ini file But you can only do that when GRAMPS is not running Just bring up the ae gramplets ini file in a text editor and make the desired af changes You can change the title of the Gramplet by _ changing the section name surrounded by square brackets These options will be able to be changed via the Gramplet View in th
187. ncludes the following general rules Bookmarked People Matches the people on the bookmark list Default person Matches the default person Disconnected People Matches people that have no family relationships to any other person in the database Everyone Matches everyone in the database Females Matches all females e Males Matches all males People having lt count gt notes Matches people having a certain number of notes Values Number of instances Number must be greater than lesser equal to Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Filters People having notes containing lt regular expression gt Matches people whose notes contain text matching a regular expression Values Regular expression People having notes containing lt substring gt Matches people whose notes contain text matching a substring Values Substring People marked private Matches people that are indicated as private People matching the lt filter gt Matches people matched by the specied filter name Values Filter name The specified filter name should be selected from the menu People probably alive Matches people without indications of death that are not too old Values On Date People with lt id gt matching regular expression Matches people whose GRAMPS ID matches the regular expression Values Regular expression People with lt count gt LDS events Matches people with a certain number of LDS events Values Number of instances
188. nd Editing Data Detailed part 1 Jump to navigation search 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 Special copyright notice All edits to this page need to be under two different copyright licenses GNU Free Documentation License 1 2 see wiki copyright GPL see manual copyright These licenses allow the Gramps project to maximally use this wiki manual as _ free content in future Gramps versions If you do not agree with this dual li cense then do not edit this page You may only link to other pages within the wiki which fall only under the GFDL license via external links using the syn tax http www gramps project org not via internal links Also only use the known conventions Previous Index Next Introduction 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 edit ing data that fits a certain category Examples in Gramps include the Edit Per son dialogandthe Family Editor dialog among many others A dialog often includes a se
189. ner Howard Lane zZ4u04 male u People Garner lola Elizabeth Betty 11121 female idl amp Relationships Garner Jane McClellan 1670 female ID Garner Jason Richard 11047 male t Families Garner Jennie S 1625 female Gender any ba fe Pedigree Garner Jesse V 1623 male L Birth date Garner John Joseph 1186 male B anis Garner John Roger 1136 male Death date A Sources Garner Joseph 1104 male Event Lo agi Garner Lewis 11105 male Marker id Media Garner Lewis Anderson 144 male Note G AN Garner Louella Marie 1183 female a oneeees Garner Margaret Ann 11039 female Custom filter Nene bs A Notes Garner Marguarite 1653 female Use regular expressions Garner Marie 1642 female Garner Mark Gerard 1185 male Q End 8 hell Garner Mary J 11114 female L Garner Marv 1115 femalell T D 1180 Garner Kathryn Mary 2132 2132 Fig 2 6 Filter Controls Displayed Alternatively you can enable the Filter sidebar which willbe displayed on the right hand side of the display When the filter sidebar is displayed the Search bar isnot 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 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 When Gramps op
190. nformation Please help improve the Gramps Wiki as a useful resource by updating it These are 18 default gramplets 1 Age Stats Gramplet see age span graphs 2 Age on Date Gramplet see the people alive and their ages on a particular date 3 Attributes Gramplets see active person s attributes Calendar Gramplet see people s events on a particular date or in a month in the past Descendants Gramplet see the active person s descendants Fan Chart Gramplet see the active person s pedigree in a circular fan chart Given Name Cloud Gramplet most popular given names Pedigree Gramplet see a complete pedigree in compressed text Quick View run a Quick View on the current person 10 Records Gramplet see world s records of your data 11 Relatives Gramplet see the relatives of the active person 12 Session Log Gramplet keep track of what you have done and what records you have visted 13 Statistics Gramplet see stats on the database 14 Surname Cloud Gramplet most popular surnames as a text cloud 15 TODO Gramplet a notepad to keep tabs on your research 16 Top Surnames Gramplet top 10 most popular surnames 17 Welcome Gramplet a Gramps welcome message 18 What s Next Gramplet what needs to be done next E E oe Se Additional Gramplets awam Starting with Gramps version 3 3 a new system was im a plemented to have even more Gramplets available This system is controlled by the Plugin Manager The Plugin Ma
191. ng 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 Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Entering and editing data detailed part 3 te Address Editor Gramps nD x Street GS Locality State County City Country ZIP Postal code Phone Sources Notes ID Title Author Page P Help W OK cancel Fig 5 26 Address editor Tip The tab labels reflect the presence of corresponding in formation if the tab contains any data its label appears boldface if the tab has no data then its label appears regular not bold It provides the following information categories of the address data The top of the window allows editing of the most general information about the ad dress Date Date at which the address is valid Street The street of the address Locality The locality name of the address City The village or city of the address State County The state or county of the address in case a mail J A GW N e address must contain this From Gramps 6 Country Country of the address 7 ZIP Postal code Postal code 8 Phone Phone number linked to the address Note Use Residence Event for genealogical address data The information can be typed in the appropriate text entry fie
192. nges 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 description of the relationship The ID field displays the ID number which labels this relation ship in the database Leave generated by Gramps 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 information on the status of your research The tabs provide the following information categories of relationship data e Children 11 Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Entering and editing data detailed part 1 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 person 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 be tween 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 anaoa Note Z Removing a child from the list does not delete that child from the database It simply removes the child from this relationship Tip Use arrows up down or drag and drop for setting chil dren order into the fami
193. not always obvious from the data if someone is actually alive Gramps uses an advanced algorithm to try to determine if a person could still be alive Remem ber Gramps is making its best guess and it may not always be able to guess correctly all the time Please double check your data Export into Gramps formats Privacy Filters It is important to verify your privacy options on Ex porter Do not enable filters or privacy options for Gramps XML backups e Gramps XML database export gramps This format is the standard format for data exchange and backups see the related gpkg format below for full portability including media objects Exporting into Gramps XML format will produce a portable database As XML is a text based human readable format you may also use it to take a look at your data This format is compatible with the previous versions of Gramps Gramps package export gpkg Exporting to the Gramps package format will create a compressed file that contains the Gramps XML 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 someone Export to CD 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 From Gramps Nautilus After exporting to CD select Go g
194. nsitive For example anyone born 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 birth To use just one value leave the other values empty e Has the death 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 example 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 Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Filters e Has the personal event 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 if 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 Has the family ev
195. nt Previous Index Next Free FDL FREE DOC LICENSE Poweniahd FF eed MediaWiki From Gramps Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Filters This page was last modified on 26 October 2011 at 12 46 This page has been accessed 558 times Content is available under GNU Free Documentation License 1 2 Privacy policy About Gramps Disclaimers From Gramps Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual FAQ From Gramps Jump to navigation search 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 suggestions to the gramps dev el lists sourceforge net list Special copyright notice All edits to this page need to be under two different copyright licenses GNU Free Documentation License 1 2 see wiki copyright GPL see manual copyright These licenses allow the Gramps project to maximally use this wiki manual as _ free content in future Gramps versions If you do not agree with this dual li cense then do not edit this page You may only link to other pages within the wiki which fall only under the GFDL license via external links using the syn tax http www gramps project org not via internal links Also only use the known conventions Previous Index Next Also consider having a look at the following Categories on the Gramps wiki e How dol e Gramps Tutorials Gramps 3 3 Wiki
196. o only use the known conventions Index Next Gramps was written by Donald N Allingham don gramps project org The somewhat incomplete list of contributors includes in alphabetical order e Alexander Bogdashevsky Alexander Roitman e Alexandre Duret Lutz Alexandre Prokoudine e Anton Huber e Arkadiusz Lipiec e Arpad Horvath e Arturas Sleinius Baruch Even Benny Malengier Bernd Felsche Bernd Schandl Billy C Earney Brian Matherly Bruce J DeGrasse Daniel Durand David R Hampton Donald A Peterson Douglas S Blank Eero Tamminen Egyeki Gergely Frederick Noronha Frode Jemtland Gary Burton Gary Shao Greg Kuperberg Guillaume Pratte James Treacy Jason Salaz Jeffrey C Ollie Jens Arvidsson J r me Rapinat Jesper Zedlitz Jim Smart Jiri Pejchal Julio Sanchez Kees Bakker Larry Allingham Lars Kr Lundin Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual About From Gramps e Laurent Protois e Leonid Mamtchenkov e Lorenzo Cappelletti e Lubo Vasko e Luiz Gonzaga dos Santos Filho e Marcos Bedinelli e Mark Knoop e Martin Hawlisch e Martin Senftleben e Matt Brubeck e Matthieu Pupat e Michel Guitel e Nathan Bullock e Pier Luigi Cinquantini e Radek Malcic e Radu Bogdan Mare e Richard Bos e Richard Taylor e Samuel Tardieu e Sebastian Voecking e Serge Noiraud e Soren Roug e Stefan Bjork e St phane Charette e Steve Hall e Steve Swales Tim Allen Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual About Tim Waugh e Tino
197. om Gramps Adding to and editing my database What is the difference between a residence and an address A residence is a place where someone lived for a period of time An address is the name of a residence formatted in the way expected by the postal system Therefore each res idence can also have an address if that is useful How do I change the order of children Children can be moved in the Family Editor by dragging and dropping or using the up and down buttons How do I change the order of spouses Spouses can be reordered from the Relationship View by selecting the Reorder button in the toolbar Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual FAQ Previous Index Next GNU FDL FREE DOC LICENSE Ported EF RS Mociawi This page was last modified on 26 October 2011 at 12 55 This page has been accessed 1 841 times Content is available under GNU Free Documentation License 1 2 Privacy policy About Gramps Disclaimers From Gramps Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Keybindings Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Keybindings From Gramps Jump to navigation search This appendix lists keybindings also known as Keyboard shortcuts you can use on the Gramps dialogs so as to avoid the use of the mouse Special copyright notice All edits to this page need to be under two different copyright licenses e GNU Free Documentation License 1 2 see wiki copyright e GPL see manual copyright These licenses allow the Gramps project to maximally use this wik
198. om Gramps Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual What s new Gramps XML Backup Configure Ancestry Pedigree Gramps Layout Example 2010 07 21 gpkq Show images Include Exclude a J Show marriage data N OK Close You can either choose to include the media or not Note that this is just a regular XML export except that no data is filtered out You Tree style Standard d can import these as usual with any exported file You can also define the pattern for the backup filename by setting the paths quick Tree direction Vertical bottom to top backup filename in the gramps gramps33 gramps ini key file like the following SO paths Tree size quick backup filename filename s year d month 02d day 9 You can use any of the following keywords in the pattern year month day hour min More Pedigree View utes seconds filename extension e GeoView More GeoView Automatic update for Addons Gramps now supports a method for automatically checking for updated Addons You can control what and how often it checks for new and updated addons Views These settings are controlled in Preferences Plugins changes e Pedigree view News e Image Metadata Gramplet now works with pyexiv2 0 1 3 and above Reports e Draw reports e Substitution Keys e Alternate Numbering on Descendant report 3635 e CLI From Gramps e Book e Web stuff Improvements on Place report e StringOption separat
199. om style That would break the benefits LaTex offers Hence the following is done bold underline and italic is supported e fontsize is mapped to the size indicators of LaTeX in a fuzzy manner e mono fonts are shown as a mono spaced font e color and font is not supported e preformatted is handled correctly 1 Narrative Web Many people use the Narrative Web report as an easy way to work with their data This report is trying to respect markup in the notes This is an interpreted translation it is not one to one 2 ODF output does not support markup at the moment This will be added in the future 3 RTF output does not support markup at the moment 11 Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Entering and editing data detailed part 2 4 html output does not support markup at the moment The conclusion of the above should be to use markup in notes only in those cases it adds to the information stored Gramps is not a text editor Previous Index Next GNU FDL FREE DOC LICENSE Powe EF eel MediaWiki This page was last modified on 26 October 2011 at 22 00 This page has been accessed 821 times Content is available under GNU Free Documentation License 1 2 Privacy policy About Gramps Disclaimers From Gramps Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Entering and editing data detailed part 3 Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Entering and editing data detailed part 3 From Gramps Ti Name Editor Gramps w ey 2S Redirected from Gramps 3 3 Wiki M
200. on Adjusting viewing controls Whether the toolbar the sidebar or the filter not available on Pedigree and Relation ships Views are displayed in the main window is adjusted through the View menu In the different views clicking the View menu will shows for boxes you can click e Navigator e Toolbar e Sidebar e Bottombar FullScreen F11 Additionally depending on the view you are in other options will be available on Configure From Gramps e Gramplets Set Columns to 1 Set Columns to 2 Set Columns to 3 e Relationships e Show Siblings e Show Details e Geography e Time period Layout All other Views the column editor Export View test ods OpenOlfice arg Cale EG i neske 8axR ea tE ae a Sir A E W anal Ho A AA HEAR dr nA AHMAR EF T i E Poeme tl i a Cily Aalst Aalst Sith Tiel Tah Halyi Kaldegem Ekle Aarachal Lun ae dimisterdaen Andaileach BrudseHHoofdatad Aunbwarpen Antwerpen Aadenede Eukb L glisa Heulchiteau emeuz 18 Bazel Poan Krubeke Sirt Mikkaas 17 lamma Pisi L Paara Turfan Fig 10 12 Export to ODS On most Views displayed data could be exported choose via the menu Family Trees gt Export View Gramps will export data on screen according your choice CSV or Open Document spreadsheet format The example see Fig 10 12 shows an export to ODS This is a powerful function no limitations like a report Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual S
201. on on the toolbar and an empty Edit Family dialog will open At this point you can add people to the family From Gramps To specify parents Select Family GHAMPS Select Family Ball jasper Bell Gary Richard Krawczyk Douglas Poulsen Randall Lee Blake Conrad Cunningham William Philip Blake George Jimenez George Henry Jr Douglas Abraham Alvarado Col Charles Parent Capt Jacob C Warmer Martin Bogarte lamar Tharmase Cr family fig Jaros Angeline Cruz Judy Denise Cruz Patti Jo Welch Lisa Dawn Ruiz Catherine Park Susannah Cunningham Sally Sarah Silva Mildred Alvarado Nancy Parent Eleanor James Jane Page Clara Belle Dearnesae Marha clans MA X Cancel aP ox You can specify Active Person s parents in the Relationship View See family fig 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 If you click on the Add button anew Edit Family dialog is presented with the Active Person listed a child of the new family You can add the parents to the family
202. onfigure People People Gramps Columns Drag and drop the columns to change the order Display Column Name Name ID Gender Birth Date Birth Place _ Death Date App Death Place Spouse Last Changed J amp U0 88884 g Fig 10 11 Column editor Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Settings The columns of the list views may be added removed or reordered ina Column Editor dialog Only checked columns will be shown in the view To change their or der drag any column to its desired place inside the editor Clicking OK willreflect the changes in the appropriate view To invoke Column Editor dialog choose via the menu View gt Configure View or click on toolbar Configure View button Column Editor The Column Editor the same way for all list views Specifically it is avail able for People View Family View children list Sources View Places View Media View Repositories View and the Notes View is available and works in Setting Home person The Home person is the person who becomes active when the Family tree database is opened and when the toolbar Home button is clicked or the Home menu item is selected from either Go menu or the right click context menu anywhere The toolbar Home button is available in the People View Relationships View and Pedigree View To set Home person make the desired person active and then choose via the menu Edit gt Set Home Pers
203. onverted to Gregorian in 1753 03 01 by skipping dates between 1752 02 18 and 1753 02 28 In Gramps you can only enter From Gramps valid dates for the Swedish Calender from 1700 03 01 to 1712 02 30 All other dates are flagged as not valid and has to be corrected Dual dated dates Dual dated dates also called double dating slash dates and sometimes Old Style New Style dates appear like Jan 23 1735 6 Often mistaken as a year uncer tainty this actually has a specific historic meaning The dual dated date represents a time when an area was in a transition between moving to January 1 as the beginning of the new year Thus Jan 23 1735 6 is an indication to make it clear what date is being referred to In this example Jan 23 1736 might have occurred after Jun 23 1736 England and the American colonies didn t officially accept the Jan 1 as the new year date until 1752 Before 1752 the English government still officially observed March 25 as the first of the year whereas most of the English population observed January 1 as the first of the year Many people therefore wrote dates falling between January 1 and March 25 in the dual dated format Sometimes a dual date may appear as a fraction as in this grave stone 170 and 3 4 which means 1703 and 1704 his Sf FORM i No ed b 9 k IE Fig 5 11 Gravestone Marking a date as dual dated can be done by simply putting a slash between the years For example 1721 2
204. oo The buttons Edit and allow let you add modify and remove a source reference to this relationship Note that the Edit and buttons become available only when a source reference is selected from the list annant Note Removing an entry from the list does not delete that source from the database It simply removes the source reference from this relationship Attributes The Attributes tab lets you view and edit particular information about the re lationship that can be expressed as attributes The buttons Edit and let you add modify or remove an attribute Note that the Edit and buttons be Fig 5 14 Sources editor come available only when an attribute is selected from the list e Notes 12 From Gramps 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 you select the Preformatted option the text in reports and web pages will appear ex
205. pouse for sake of simplicity However _ please note that spouse may in fact be a domestic part ner a partner in a civil union or various other similar Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Main Window relationships between two people Spouse relationships are not required to be only between a male and female Reorder Relationships GRAMPS Parent relationships Father Mother Rodriguez Family relationships Relationship Married Married Spouse Kasakoe jane Bopouos Katherine Fig 2 8 Relation reordering You may adda family by selecting the Add Spouse button 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 fam ily Clicking the Delete button will remove the person from the displayed family From Gramps Removing a person from a family 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 Note We use the terms father and mother for the sake of sim aa plicity Even if there are no children in a family the fa al ther 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 conve nience la
206. problems fixing the problems it can Specif ically 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 Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Tools 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 is accidentally deleted renamed or moved to another location e 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 father 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 Rebuild Reference Maps This tool rebuilds reference map tables References items on editors Rebuild Secondary Indices This tool rebuilds secondary indices Remove Unused Objects This tool will search your database for pieces of information which are not connected to anything else and then remove them Utilities 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 Generate SoundEx codes This utility generates Sound
207. propriate Select radio button to specify the record to be used as the source of primary data then click OK The data from the other record will be kept as alternate data From Gramps tS G Werge People Gramps iy BS Merge People Select the person that will provide the primary data for the merged person Greenwood Leticia 10098 Greenwood Louisa l0099 Detailed Selection gt Context Information F Help a OK Cancel Fig 5 26 Merge people regular view 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 be come alternate parents spouses and children of the merged record and so on Merge Families When exactly two families are selected choose Edit gt Merge to invoke Merge Families dialog 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 toclose the dialog without making any changes If you decide to proceed with merging choose the appropriate radio button to spec ify to be used for the merged record then click OK Merge Events When exactly two events are selected choose Edit gt Merge to invoke Merge Events dialog The dialog allows you to make a decision on whether or not the selected records should be merged Gramps 3 3
208. ps O Family Tree 1 a Tepore p name hourglass graph It is possible to include any character in a list but the details are beyond the scope of this command line introduction to Gramps You will need to know the precise methods available in your particular command shell interpreter to include a character which is special to your shell or special to Gramps like the comma in the example above but in general you will have to escape it twice once to your shell and once again to Gramps since you don t want your shell to think it is some instruction it should pay attention to and you don t want Gramps to think that either tool action option You can run most tools from the command line using the tool action To see which ones say gramps O Family Tree 1 a tool p show all note 1li note 1l From Gramps To see a tool s available options for instance the verify tool gramps O Family Tree 1 a tool p name verify show all To run a tool for instance the verify tool gramps O Family Tree 1 a tool p name verify Force unlock option u you can extend the O flag with u to force a locked family to be unlocked This allows you to recover from a crash that leaves the family tree database locked from the com mand line An example to unlock the Family Tree 1 database gramps O Family Tree 1 a report u gt dev null Note that it is not possible to open family trees that need repair
209. r Add_ button Enter any data you know about this person into the Edit Per son dialog see edit pers fig for details to build multiple relationships to a single person To specify a new relationship to the Active Person switch to the Relation ships View See family fig and you will see this individual indicated as the Active Person Next to the Family label isa Add button typically represented by a From Gramps sign Clicking the Add button will display the Edit Family dialog with the Active Person set as either the father or the mother Family Smith Edwin Michael and Adams Janice Ann GRAMPS Father dh Mother cb Name Smith Edwin Michael IC3a2b1 Name Adams Janice Ann 140 3 Birth 24 5 1961 Birth 26 8 1965 Death Death Relationship Information Type Married v Marker v amp ID FO1 Birth Date 12 4 1998 26 6 1996 Maternal Paternal Gender 141 Smith Amber Marie female Birth Birth 142 Smith Mason Michael male Birth Birth cancel 4 ox l Quel 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 will then be able to browse through the list of people in the database to se lect the one you want If not click the Ada button This will allow you to add a new person to the database and to specify the
210. r Margaret Ann New fag Gramps Garner Marguarite Garner Marie Garner Mark Gerard Garner Mary J Apr 1852 Garner Mary M 24 May 1858 Garner Maude 1651 female Due to the static nature of tags it might be accra to add a tag to a selection of objects For example one should be able to select a number of person in the Person View and add them a new tag or an existing one Tags Column Tags contains Name v ID oon yar rrecreran moro Garner Jason Richard 11047 Garner Jennie S 1625 Garner Jesse V 1623 Garner John Joseph 1186 Garner John Roger 1136 Garner Joseph 1104 Garner Kathryn Mary 1180 Garner Lewis 11105 Garner Lewis Anderson 144 Garner Louella Marie 1183 Garner Marqaret Ann 11039 Gender merna male female male male male male female male male female female Birth Date erry 173v 20 Oct 1975 11 Sep 1880 18 Jun 1876 15 Aug 1961 29 Oct 1925 1792 10 Sep 1952 18 Nov 1823 21 Jun 1855 18 Jul 1951 Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Navigation Death Date 20 Jun 1964 21 Jan 1929 21 Jan 1911 28 Jun 1911 10 Feb 1952 Famous Find Clear Me OE b sear Tags Father Father Mother USA USA Famous Famous USA Famous Father Mother USA a It is convenient to havea Tags column in the views of objects that can be tagged The content is a comma separated list of the tags of the objects Previous
211. r describes the various tools available in Gramps Special copyright notice All edits to this page need to be under two different copyright licenses GNU Free Documentation License 1 2 see wiki copyright GPL see manual copyright These licenses allow the Gramps project to maximally use this wiki manual as _ free content in future Gramps versions If you do not agree with this dual li cense then do not edit this page You may only link to other pages within the wiki which fall only under the GFDL license via external links using the syn tax http www gramps project org not via internal links Also only use the known conventions Previous Index Next Introduction Gramps tools allow you to perform various 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 appro priate 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 by choosing the menu Tools gt Tool Section gt Particular Tool Alternatively you can browse the complete selection of available tools along with their brief descriptions in a Tool Selection dialog invoked by clicking the Tools iconon the toolbar Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Tools Additional Tools awa Starting with Gramps
212. r 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 __ Tip oO 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 e 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 paaa Note at Every media object is referred to by its Path The user is c responsible for keeping track of the object files Gramps From Gramps will only reference and display the contents not man age the files themselves e Attributes The Attributes tab lets you view and edit particular information about the me dia 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 thatthe Edit and buttons become avail able only w
213. r which Gramps was run available by executing echo SLANG in your terminal 3 Symptoms indicating that this is indeed a bug 4 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 Then we will have a way of contacting you should we need more information Requests e Gramps should be a type of application It is obvious that Gramps absolutely needs to become a client server web based PHP weblog Javascript C distributed KDE Motif Tcl Win32 C You name it applica tion When is this going to happen The surest way to see it happen is to get it done by yourself Since Gramps is free open source nobody prevents you from taking all of the code and continuing its de velopment 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 develop ment 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 project If however you would like the Gramps project 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 Fr
214. ramplet see the active person s pedigree in a circular fan chart e Given Name Cloud Gramplet most popular given names e Pedigree Gramplet see a complete pedigree in compressed text e Quick View run a Quick View on the current person e Records Gramplet see world s records of your data e Relatives Gramplet see the relatives of the active person e Session Log Gramplet keep track of what you have done and what records you have visited e Statistics Gramplet see stats on the database e Surname Cloud Gramplet most popular surnames as a text cloud e TODO Gramplet a notepad to keep tabs on your research e Top Surnames Gramplet top 10 most popular surnames From Gramps e Welcome Gramplet a GRAMPS welcome message e What s Next Gramplet what needs to be done next In addition there are a number of additional Gramplets that you can easily install and use These include e Headline News Gramplet current breaking news from GRAMPS Data Entry Gramplet edit active person s name birth date and place death date and place and add people e Python Gramplet a Python shell e FAQGramplet frequently asked questions e Note Gramplet see and edit active person s primary Person Note and many others See Third party Plugins for more details For more detailed information on using the installed Gramplets see Gramplets People Category TreeView and ListView An Family Tree Gramps raoa Family Trees
215. ramps Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Command Line Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Command Line From Gramps Version options Jump to navigation search This appendix provides the reference to the command line capabilities available when y or version prints version of Gramps and dependencies launching Gramps from the terminal information about environment settings and python and system pat Special copyright notice All edits to this page need to be under two different copyright licenses Format options GNU Free Documentation License 1 2 see wiki copyright The format of any file destined for opening importing or exporting can be specified GPL see manual copyright with the These licenses allow the Gramps project to maximally use this wiki manual as free content in future Gramps versions If you do not agree with this dual li cense then do not edit this page You may only link to other pages within the wiki which fall only under the GFDL license via external links using the syn tax http www gramps project org not via internal links option The acceptable format values are listed below Also only use the known conventions f format Full family tree support These formats contain all your data that is present in a family tree e gramps Gramps XML format This format is available for import and export Previous Index Next When not specified it can be guessed if the filename ends with gramps e gpkg Gramps package XML format This
216. ration To avoid unwanted effects after a major upgrades of Gramps eg from version 3 2 x to 3 3 x if required you can manually copy your custom_filter xml from GRAMPS User Directory to gramps_version_number Detine filter GRAMPS Define filter Definition Name Males born before 1800 Comment This is atest Rule list Name Values ole 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 Help X Cancel P oK Fig 11 1 Define filter From Gramps The Custom Filter Editor builds custom filters that can be used to select people in cluded 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 re spectively All the filters displayed in the list will be automatically saved along with your database and will be available with subsequent sessions of Gramps Changes on filters ioana A The changes made to the filters only take effect when you click the toolbar Apply and close but ton Clicking the toolbar Add button invokes the Define S
217. re The Verify tool however is detecting the records that do not satisfy your particular criteria For example you may want to make sure that nobody in your database had children 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 vi olates your criteria so that you can check whether the record is erroneous or not The ultimate decision is yours Previous Index Next GNU FOL FREE DOC LICENSE E This page was last modified on 26 October 2011 at 10 05 This page has been accessed 1 111 times Content is available under GNU Free Documentation License 1 2 Privacy policy About Gramps Disclaimers Posmi By MediaWiki From Gramps Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Settings From Gramps Jump to navigation search Special copyright notice All edits to this page need to be under two different copyright licenses e GNU Free Documentation License 1 2 see wiki copyright e GPL see manual copyright These licenses allow the Gramps project to maximally use this wiki manual as free content in future Gramps versions If you do not agree with this dual li cense then do not edit this page You may only link to other pages within the wiki which fall only under the GFDL license via external links using the syn tax http www gr
218. red for Gramps Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual FAQ If you only have Latin text the PDF option will produce a smaller PDF compared to that created by gnome print simply because no font information will be embedded I would like to contribute to Gramps by writing my favorite report How do I do that The easiest way to contribute to reports filters tools etc is to copy an existing Gramps report filter or tool If you can create what you want by modifying existing code great If your idea does not fit into the logic of any existing Gramps tool you will need to write your own plugin from scratch Help is available on the Developers Portal or on the Developers mailing list gramps devel lists sourceforge 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 startup 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 dev el lists sourceforge net Database Gramps file formats What is the maximum database size bytes Gramps can han dle Gramps has no hard limits on the size of a database that it can handle Starting with 2 0 0 release Gramps no longer loads all data into memory which allows it to work with a much larger database than before In reality
219. relationships This rule matches people with 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 e Is spouse of filter match This rule matches people married to someone who is matched by the specified filter The specified filter name should be selected from the menu e Isa child of filter match This rule matches people for whom either parent is matched by the specified filter The specified filter name should be selected from the menu Isa parent of filter match This rule matches people whose child is matched by the specified filter The specified filter name should be selected from the menu e Isa sibling of filter match This rule matches people whose sibling is matched by the specified filter The specified filter name should be selected from the menu Ancestral filters This category includes the following rules that match people based on their ancestral relations to other people Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Filters Is an ancestor of This rule matches people who are ancestors of the specified person The Inclusive option determines whether the specified person should be considered his her own ancestor useful for building reports You can either en
220. resource by updating it The top of the window allows entry of the type of name e g Birth Name Married Name Editor Name etc from a dropdown list Next are elements of the personal name most com Names are edited through the newly improved Name Editor dialog monly grouped together as Given Name elements Following the Given Name section From Gramps is the Family Names section At the bottom are elements allowing for customization of name sorting dates for names name sources and notes for names Tip The tab labels reflect the presence of corresponding in formation if the tab contains any data its label appears boldface if the tab has no data then its label appears regular not bold Type The Name Type dropdown list allows you to select the type of name being entered Given Names Section The Given Names Section contains all parts of a personal name you can store with Gramps e Given The person s given names should all be entered here e Call Name The person s proper legal name that was used most commonly by the person should be entered here For example someone named John Raymond Smith who uses the name Raymond should have Raymond entered here If this person uses Ray commonly this should be entered as a nickname since Ray is not the proper legal name see following In Germany and some other places it was custom to underline the callname among the different given names see also here Title The per
221. ries 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 Foo correspond to Remove and an at icon of a pen ona sheet of paper todenote Edit We will continue referring to the latter as the Edit button while using and to denote the two for mer buttons Editing information about people An overview of the elements Information about people is entered and edited through the Edit Person dia log This dialog can be invoked from different Views in the following ways e From the People Category Double click the name of the person whose data you would like to edit Select the name by single click and then click the Edit buttton on the toolbar Select the name and then press Enter Select Edit from the Edit menu of Gramps Select Edit from the context menu that appears upon right click on the name From Gramps Person Garner Lewis Anderson Gramps Preferred name Al Family Gamer Prefix v Given Lewis Anderson Call Name Type Birth Name v Patronymic v General Gender male v ID 144 Marker v fE Events Names Sources Attributes Addresses 2 Notes Gallery 9 Internet Associations gt
222. rols the enabling and disabling of the Tip of the Day dialog at startup e 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 e Display edit buttons on Realtionship View This option controls the enabling and disabling of the edit buttons in the Relationship view If enabled you will see the edit buttons on the right side of the displayed names e Remember last view displayed This option controls the enabling and disabling of the the display of the last view Enabling will bring you to the view where you stopped the program the last time e Number of generations for relationship determination You can fill in the number of generations used to determine relationships The default value is 15 e Base path for relative media path Here you can fill in a base path for the media objects Clicking the Directory button gives youa Select media directory editor where you can fill in the required path Family Tree passasi This page s factual accuracy may be compromised due to out of date information Please help improve the Gramps Wiki as a useful resource by updating it E E Preferences GRAMPS in General Database Display Text ID Formats Dates Warnings Researcher Me Database path jhome erik gramps grampsdb Automatically load last database Fig 10 2 Family Tree Preferences
223. roups country county This view is new in Gramps version 3 3 0 In future versions the aim is to make the grouping more intelligent The PlaceListView on the other hand just shows all the places in one long list 14 Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Main Window Geography Category Note The Geography category is only present if OsmGpsMap is present that Gramps can use a trunk example Gramps we amp Family Trees Edit View Go Reports Tools Help Cean Fea OO amp amp ew G Places list 373 v lt lt 1s2 gt gt 4797 Q All places in the family tree with coordinates f t l u y 1 I Mingan a Ai SOR st z j yy p ae agen ed a ee a A 7 r Se tar o ear DN ia ha Look gt gt of America b ri j g z x 3 z 4 f 4 Ake a er Te ee Sim ENE ara a ew ee LARS a Th Sua Seer se S Lr e 2 gr i E A ao 2B i eo z A P E j a lt lt gt Latitude 34 74161250 Longitude 83 89160156 Pii This category is for showing data on a map It contains the Geographic View which allows you to see the people and their events placed on a map via an internet map provider OpenStreetMap or Google maps The Geographic View can e show all places in your family tree e show a filtered selection of places From Gramps e show all places connected to the active person e show all places connected to the active family e show all places connected to all events e show all place
224. rth and death information and to show or hide siblings Next to each person listed isan Edit button which will allow you to edit all the details of that particular person You may add a set of parents by either selecting the Add Parents or the Share Parents buttons The Add Parents button will create a new family with the Active Person listed asa 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 par ents If you select the Delete button next to a set of parents then the Active Per son will be removed as a child from the parents This button does not delete the par ents relationship Warning If you are not careful it is possible to create multiple families with the same parents 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 e Family Similar to the Parents section is the Family section which displays families where the Active Person is a parent Because it is possible to have multiple families it is possible to have multiple Family sections Each family section displays the spouse and any children anom SPOUSE a We use the term s
225. s Appendix D About Gramps Previous Index Next GNU FDL FREE DOC LICENSE Bg Premed By E MediaWiki This page was last modified on 29 October 2011 at 23 29 This page has been accessed 9 305 times Content is available under GNU Free Documentation License 1 2 Privacy policy About Gramps Disclaimers From Gramps Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Preface From Gramps Jump to navigation search 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 world wide team of volunteers whose goal is to make Gramps powerful yet easy to use Special copyright notice All edits to this page need to be under two different copyright licenses GNU Free Documentation License 1 2 see wiki copyright GPL see manual copyright These licenses allow the Gramps project to maximally use this wiki manual as free content in future Gramps versions If you do not agree with this dual li cense then do not edit this page You may only link to other pages within the wiki which fall only under the GFDL license via external links using the syn tax http www gramps project org not via internal links Also only use the known conventions Previous Index Next Wh
226. s i On every third blue moon Lewis Anderson Garner N0010 Source text Some note on the repo N0017 Repository iv 1186 Garner John Joseph 22 22 Fig 2 26 Notes view Previous Index FREE DOC LICENSE 17 This page was last modified on 1 November 2011 at 05 59 This page has been accessed 3 875 times Content is available under GNU Free Documentation License 1 2 Privacy policy About Gramps Disclaimers Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Main Window From Gramps Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Manage Family Trees Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Manage Family Trees From Gramps Jump to navigation search Now we turn to a detailed exploration of the day to day use of Gramps In this Chapter we give a detailed overview of how you can manage your family trees as well as share your data with other genealogists Special copyright notice All edits to this page need to be under two different copyright licenses e GNU Free Documentation License 1 2 see wiki copyright e GPL see manual copyright These licenses allow the Gramps project to maximally use this wiki manual as free content in future Gramps versions If you do not agree with this dual li cense then do not edit this page You may only link to other pages within the wiki which fall only under the GFDL license via external links using the syn tax http www gramps project org not via internal links Also only use the known conventions Previous Index Next St
227. s gt Import The Import database dialog will open asking you to specify the file you wish to import From Gramps Note that you can only import data into an existing database so if you are transfer ring all your data from another program or from an older version of Gramps then first create a new empty database and then import the data into it 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 Order up side down Events generated under oth er programs Gramps provides an help for ordering events according to your preferences See Sort Events tool The Gramps XML Gramps XML Package and GRAMPS V2 x database are all native Gramps formats There is no risk of information loss when importing from or exporting to these formats Gramps XML gramps The Gramps XML file is the standard Gramps data exchange and backups format and was also the default working database format for older pre 2 x versions of Gramps Unlike the GRAMPS V2 x grdb format it is architecture independent and human readable The database may also have references to non local external media objects therefore it is not guaranteed to be completely portable for full portability including media objects in the Gramps XML package gpkg should be used The Gramps XML database is cr
228. s 3 3 Wiki Manual Entering and Editing Data Detailed part 2 Learn about the other core objects in Gramps events sources places repositories and notes 3 Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Entering and Editing Data Detailed part 3 Learn Intro duction how attributes and addresses work as well as how you can merge data As we have seen above Gramps offers you a series of Views Each of these Views gives Previous Index Next 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 GNU EDL A dialog is a pop up window that provides one or more forms for entering and edit FREE DOC LICENSE ing data that fits a certain category Examples in Gramps include the Edit Per son dialogandthe Family Editor dialog among many others eed MediaWiki From Gramps Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Entering and editing data detailed This page was last modified on 29 October 2011 at 09 18 This page has been accessed 911 times Content is available under GNU Free Documentation License 1 2 Privacy policy About Gramps Disclaimers From Gramps Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Entering and editing data detailed part 1 Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Entering and editing data detailed part 1 From Gramps Redirected from Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Entering a
229. s connected to a filtered selection of events These options are accessible via the buttons on the toolbar To filter on places or events activate the filter sidebar via the menu View gt Filter Sidebar Furthermore the Geographic view can help you add new places to your family tree or add latitude longitude coordinates to existing places To activate this use the add location button orthe link location button in the toolbar The top of the Geographic View shows two lines with information allowing you to change the information shown The second line always shows in bold what is shown on the map The first line has e Place list button and selection field The button shows how many places are present in the map The selection fields allows you to jump to one of these places You can clear the selection field by clicking the places list button e Place page buttons If there are many places the map is no longer useful because too much information is shown Therefore the places will be divided in pages You can navigate the pages and see the map change via the Place page buttons lt lt goes back a page gt gt goes forward a page and the middle button shows how many pages there are and what is shown at the moment e Places with no latitude longitude The Geographic View can only show places with a valid latitude longitude A list of all places that satisfy the selection but cannot be put on the map is available via the button with a n
230. s the places in the family tree B Geography Displays data of your family tree on a map sources Displays the sources in the family tree B Repositories Displays the repositories in the family tree B Media Displays the media objects in the family tree Notes Displays the notes in the family tree The categories can contain several ways of presenting the data Each specific way is called a View Before we launch into a description of each View let s first explain how to switch between Views From Gramps Switching Views and Viewing Modes i Family tree 1 GRAMPS ey Pen x Family Trees Edit View Go Bookmarks Reports Tools Help 28 E S a axi EA Family Trees Home Clipboard Reports Tools Add Edit Remove EJ Gramplets Name contains v Q Eind Clear a People Name ID Gender Birth Date Death Date e Se ee ee es Sos Ser amp Relationships Garner Jane McClellan 1670 female 27 4 1950 g Families Garner Jason Richard 11047 male 20 10 1975 Garner Jennie S 1625 female 11 9 1880 20 6 1964 Pedigree Garner Jesse V 1623 male 18 6 1876 21 1 1929 IR Events Garner John Joseph 1186 male 15 8 1961 Jat Garner John Roger 1136 male 29 10 1925 v r ra ounces Garner Joseph 1104 male 1792 places Garner Kathryn Mary 1180 female 10 9 1952 Garner Lewis 11105 male 18 11 1823 21 1 1911 Media Sr z _ Repositories Garner Louella Marie 1183 female Garner Margaret Ann 11039 female 18 7
231. son View 42 42 Death Date 1959 01 28 Gender R Events Q Places B Sources Bottombar Sidebar Previous Index Next Fig 2 1 Gramps Main Window e Navigator The navigator is located at the left of the window and allows selection of the different categories Intro duction Progress Bar and Status Bar These are located at the very bottom of the Gramps window When you open a Family Tree database either existing or new the main Gramps win e The Progress Bar is located in the lower left corner of the Gramps window It dow is displayed Fig 2 1 displays the progress of time consuming operations such as opening and saving large Family Tree databases importing and exporting to other formats The main Gramps window contains the following elements generating web sites etc When you are not doing these types of operations the e Menubar The menubar is located at the very top of the window right below the Progress Bar is not shown window title and provides access to all the features of Gramps e The Status Bar is located to the right of the Progress Bar It displays information e Toolbar The toolbar is located right below the menubar It gives you access to the about current Gramps activity and contextual information about the selected most frequently used functions of Gramps You can set options that control how it items appears by going to the menu Edit gt Preferences You can
232. son s personal title such as Doctor or Dr can be entered here e Suffix The person s personal name suffix such as Junior Jr or III should be entered here e Nick Name The person s nickname should be entered here Nicknames include shortenings of proper legal names such as Greg for Gregory cf Call Name above Family Names Section The Family Names Section contains the person s family name elements Gramps allows for multiple family names as well as multiple kinds of family names Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Entering and editing data detailed part 3 A Prefix for the family name that is not used in sorting such as de or van e Surname for the main portion of one s family name e Connector often used in matronymic or patronymic naming schemes such as dotter e Origin indicating the type of family name this is and its derivation e Family Nick Name for families commonly referred to using a more vernacular nick name See also Names wiki entry Check the Private record icon inthe top right corner 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 General tab 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 e The Grouping field provides an alternative grouping node for a name in the person view
233. source for each event you record births deaths marriages etc The Sources View lists the Title ID and Author ofthe source as wellasany 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 Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Main Window Places Category Family free I GRAMPS ratx Family Trees Edit View Bookmarks Reports Tools Help CS i a dh F OpenStreetMap Family Trees Clipboard Reports Tools Add Edit Remove Loading EI Gramplets Place Name contains v Q Find d Clear Pv People Place Name ID Street City State a as Relationships Aberdeen SD P1643 Aberdeen SD p Aberdeen WA P1131 Aberdeen WA go Families Ada OK P1366 Ada OK 4 Pedigree Adjuntas PR P1293 Adjuntas PR Adrian MI P0861 Adrian MI 2R Events l _ Aguadilla PR P0962 Aguadilla PR 4 Sources Akron OH P1130 Akron OH Alamogordo NM P1325 Alamogordo NM R Places Albany GA P0970 Albany GA B media Albany NY P1446 Albany NY are Albany OR P1085 Albany OR Repositories Albert Lea MN P1260 Albert Lea MN FA Notes Albertville AL P0866 Albertville AL o 1180 Garner Kathryn Mary 877 877 Fig 2 20 Places view The Places Views lists the geographical places in
234. stry 1850 1867 Great Falls Church Author Priests of Great Falls Church 1850 1867 ID s0000 Abbreviation BR GFC 1850 Publication Information Microfilm Publie Library Great Falls Note Any changes in the shared source information will be reflected in the source itself for all items that reference the source Help cancel J ox Fig 5 21 Source information The Source details section indicates the details associated with the particular reference to this Source Confidence Volume Film Page Date and Notes You can choose the Confidence level from the Confi dence drop down menu The remaining details can be typed in the corresponding Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Entering and editing data detailed part 2 Date Date associated with this source reference Typically used to store the log date when text was added to the original source Volume Film Page Specific location with in the information referenced For a published work this could include the volume of a multi volume work and the page number s For a periodical it could include volume issue and page numbers For a newspaper it could include a column number and page number For an unpublished source this could be a sheet number page number frame number etc A census record might have a line number or dwelling and family numbers in addition to the page number Confidence Conveys the submitter s quantitative evaluatio
235. t 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 Exporting into the GEDCOM format juno This page s factual accuracy may be compromised due to out of date information Please help improve the Gramps Wiki as a useful resource by updating it Export Assistant Gramps Person Filter Entire Database Note Filter Entire Database C Restrict data on living people C Do not include unlinked records Gramps allows you to export a database into the common GEDCOM format It provides options that allow you to fine tune your export see Fig 3 5 e Filters on People and Notes Filters allow you to export a limited amount of data based on the criteria you select Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Manage Family Trees Do not include records marked private Check this box to prevent private records from being included in the exported file Restrict data on living people 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 file If you choose this option you will be given additional options to limit further the data on living
236. t Merge to invoke Merge Places dialog 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 spec ify From Gramps Merge Places Gramps ma les es Merge Places Select the place that will provide the primary data for the merged place Centralia IL P0011 _ Centralia Illinois POO38 Detailed Selection Jo Help Cancel Fig 5 30 Merge places regular e Title e Latitude e Longitude e Location ID to be used for the merged record then click OK Merge Media Objects When exactly two Media Objects are selected choose Edit gt Merge to invoke Merge Media Objects dialog 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 spec ify to be used for the merged record then click OK Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Entering and editing data detailed part 3 Merge Places Gramps el G es Merge Places Select the place that will provide the primary data for the
237. t suitable one can define one s own format You can use the Add button to add a Name format to the list Clicking once will give you a SURNAME Given Suffix call format and as example SMITH Edwin Jose Sr Ed If you added new name formats to the list the Remove and Edit buttons become available to change the name format list From Gramps a Besides the system wide setting Gramps allows deciding the name display format individually for every single name viathe Name Editor dialog Name Editor GRAMPS Name Editor Garner Pretix call Name Title suffix Also Known As Family Given Patronymic Type General Sources Options Group as O Override Sort as Family name Given Name Patronymic Display as Family name Given Name Patronymic Date af Cancel a Custom name display formats are stored in the data bases thus before loading any database the Custom format details expander is disabled e Date format This option controls the display of dates Several different formats are available e g YYYY MM DD ISO which may be dependent on your locale e Calendar on reports This option controls the display of calendar on reports tools gramplets views Several different calendars are available see Date Edition Two dates with two differents calendars will not properly display timeline or periode Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Settings e g by setting Gre
238. table The biggest issue with Gramps portability lies with transactions With Gramps 2 2 we added support for atomic transactions to protect data With atomic transactions mul tiple changes are committed as a single unit Either all the changes make it or none of the changes make it You are never left in a situation with a partial set of changes A side benefit of using transactions is that database access reads and writes are faster The problem with transactions at least using BSDDB is that it does not allow all the data to be stored in a single file Logging files are needed to keep track of things These logging files are kept in a DB Environment directory We need a separate directory for each file otherwise the log files can interfere with each other In 2 2 we keep the log files under the gramps lt path gt directory creating a unique directory for each database The problem is that your GRDB file needs the log files which are in a different directory Copying the GRDB file is only copying a portion of the database Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual FAQ Bugs and requests What do I do if I have found a bug The best thing you can do is to fix the bug and send the patch to gramps dev el lists sourceforge net If that is not possible you should submit a bug report A good bug report would include 1 Version of Gramps you were using when you encountered the bug available through Help About menu item 2 Language unde
239. tadata to the image and convert latitude longitude if it is in decimal format 2 Clear Will clear all data fields 3 Convert GPS Coordinates will convert Latitude Longitude if it is in decimal format My favorite source for GPS Coordinates is GPS Visualizer Previous Index Next GNU FDL FREE DOC LICENSE Poss EF BME Mediawiki This page was last modified on 29 October 2011 at 12 37 This page has been accessed 1 236 times Content is available under GNU Free Documentation License 1 2 Privacy policy About Gramps Disclaimers From Gramps Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Reports From Gramps Jump to navigation search This section describes all the different reports available in Gramps Previous Index Next Special copyright notice All edits to this page need to be under two different copyright licenses GNU Free Documentation License 1 2 see wiki copyright GPL see manual copyright These licenses allow the Gramps project to maximally use this wiki manual as f free content in future Gramps versions If you do not agree with this dual li cense then do not edit this page You may only link to other pages within the wiki which fall only under the GFDL license via external links using the syn tax http www gramps project org not via internal links Also only use the known conventions Introduction The number of available reports in Gramps is huge and could be overwhelming at first glance The different
240. tcut accelerator key CTRL B For an application like Gramps the Clipboard is very important One example You find a birth certificate of a person In this certificate also the witnesses are mentioned And the birth certificate also determines a source where the information was stored The best way is to open the clipboard and drag the source you want to work with there Then use drag and drop to use it in new items you use Now you can finalize the information on the person editor screen Drag that info also to the Clipboard Now you add two new persons for the witnesses assuming you do not have them already in your database Simply drag and drop the birth info to the witness event screen You are then presented with the screen where you can change the role of the witness to witness for this birth event You do the same with the other witness This saves you a lot of typing and possible errors From Gramps Windows Menu Family Trees Edit View Go Bookmarks Reports Tools Edit Family Event Reference Editor New Note gt Media None gt Repository gt The Windows gt Menu provides quick access to opened windows you are working on Tagging aasa This page s factual accuracy may be compromised due to out of date information Please help improve the Gramps Wiki as a useful resource by updating it l Go to the Menu Edit gt Tag Family Trees View Go Book
241. ted followed by the list of available reports of output filename off output format These are the extension an output format makes available eg pdf html doc style for text reports the stylesheet to use Defaults to default 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 So to learn to use a report do for example gramps O Family Tree 1 a report p name family group style xdapaut SFamhtyl o et eStlatmeport p name family group show all In version 3 3 you can provide the css style to use here with the css option From Gramps 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 lists Some reports have options or arguments which are in terpreted by the report to be on multiple lines For in stance some reports allow you to format how the in formation will be shown perhaps with a name on one line and the person s birth date on the next line Such multiple
242. ted from the menu e Is a descendant family member of This rule not only matches people who are descendants of the specified person but also those descendants spouses Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Filters Relationship filters This category includes the following rules that match people based on their mutual re lationship e Relationship path between two people This rule matches all ancestors of both people back to their common ancestors if 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 Miscellaneous filters This category includes the following rules which do not naturally fit into any of the above categories e 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 e 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 e Has LDS This rule matches people or families with a LDS eve
243. tegory 11 Places Category 12 Geography Category Ab Stract 13 Media Category 14 Repositories Category The Gramps Manual details all aspects of the Gramps software application 15 Notes Category 4 Manage Family Trees 1 Starting a new Family Tree From Gramps Opening a Family Tree Opening a GEDCOM or XML database Deleting a Family Tree Renaming a Family Tree Backing up a Family Tree 1 Backup dialog Archiving a Family Tree Extracting a Family Tree Archive Unlocking a Family Tree 10 Repairing a damaged Family Tree 11 Saving changes to your Family Tree 12 Importing data 13 Exporting data 1 Filters and privacy 2 Export into Gramps formats 3 Exporting into the GEDCOM format 4 Export into other formats 14 Moving a Gramps 2 2 databases to Gramps 3 x DAN PR W N oN 5 Entering and editing data brief 1 Introduction To add or edit a person To specify a relationship To specify parents To specify children Adding photos and other media objects 7 To edit events sources places and repositories DAM FWY 6 Entering and editing data detailed 1 Entering and editing data detailed part 1 1 Introduction 2 Editing information about people 1 An overview of the elements 2 Preferred name section 3 General section 4 Preferred image 5 Person tab pages 3 Editing dates 1 Date validity indicators 4 Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual 2 Graphical User Interface for entering dates Editing informat
244. ter 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 an ancestor of person at least N generations away 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 grandparents great grandparents etc but not the parents of the specified person Is an ancestor of person not more than N generations away 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 parents and grandparents but not great grandparents etc of the specified person Has a common ancestor with This rule matches people who have common ancestors with the specified person Has a common ancestor with filter match 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 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 From Gramps Descendant filters This
245. the family name that is not used in sorting such as de or vanand Suffix an optional suffix to the name such as Jr or III selector e Patronymic which is the component of a personal name based on the name of one s father grandfather and Title whichis a title used to refer to the person such as Dr or Rev selector e Call name officially this is the part of the given name that is the normally used name Eg a person can have 3 given names as in Jean Baptiste Jules where in reality only Baptiste is used In Germany and some other places it was customary to From Gramps underline the callname among the different given names see also here Some people will use this field also for nickname or changes to the Given name like Cristy for Cristina but this is not the intended use A call name is a proper legal name For nick names or short name variants you should create an alternative name with a different type Type ofthe name birth name married name nick name short name etc It is advised to use for the preferred name a name with legal tender as that is what most often is found on documents and store other name types inthe Name tab of the Person Editor The Family name and Type fields provide an autocompletion feature as you type in these fields a menu appears below the 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 d
246. there could be multiple imports exports and actions specified further on the com mand line by using flags The order of 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 AANA Note But opening must always be first If no or Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Command Line option is given Gramps will launch its main window and start the usual interactive ses sion with the empty database since there is no data to process anyway Unless you have already expressed a preference that it start with the last database it used If no 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 grdb file under the gramps import directory Any errors encountered during import export or action will be either dumped to std out if these are exceptions handled by Gramps or to stderr if these are not handled Use usual shell redirections of stdout and stderr to save messages and errors in files Examples To import four databases whose formats can be determined from their names and then check the resulting database for errors one may type gramps i filel ged i file2 gpkg i db3 gramps i file4 wft a To explicitly specify the formats in the above example append f
247. they are registered by using Install Addons described below Hide Unhide The plugin Manager can be used to hide or unhide plugins Some menus will not display hidden addons so that the addon cannot be selected For example if a Gramplet is hid den then it will not appear in the Add a gramplet context menu which appear when right clicking the background of the Gramplets main tab However hiding some addons such as Relationships or Gramps Views has no effect and may not even be allowed Actions There are three tabs of the Plugin Manager Registered Plugins Loaded Plugins and In stall Addons Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Plugin Manager Registered Plugins EI Plagin Manager Gramps x ral CETLIT Name Description Produces a boc Shows some ir Type Status Visible Book Report Visible Records Report Visible Ahnentafel Report Visible Birthday and Anniversary Report Visible Custom Text Produces a tex Produces a rep Add custom te Visible Descendant Report Produces a list Visible Detailed Ancestral Report Visible Detailed Descendant Report Visible End of Line Report Visible Family Group Report Produces a det Produces a det Produces a tex Produces a fan gt lt 17 D nfo Hide unhide Pzd Close Reload Here you see a list of all plugins that Gramps has found These are the plugins which are part of Gramps as well as the plugins found in the gramps33 plugins directory within th
248. trieve the data Con sider taking a backup of your data by exporting to the GRAMPS XML format and storing that file Renaming a Family Tree You can rename a Family Tree or an archive of it by selecting the tree you want to re name and clicking Rename You can also click on the name in the list of trees In either case you just type in the new name to have it take effect Backing up a Family Tree e The safest way to backup your Gramps Family Tree is to export without privacy options and filters to Gramps XML format or Gramps XML Package to include items from your Gallery and copy the resultant file to a safe place preferably in a different building Backup dialog Example_2010 07 21 gpkq Exclude Include You can either choose to include the media or not Note that this is just a regular XML export except that no data is filtered out You can import these as usual with any exported file You can also define the pattern for the backup filename by setting the paths quick backup filename in the gramps gramps33 gramps ini key file like the following From Gramps paths quick backup filename filename s year d month You can use any of the following keywords in the pattern year month day hour min utes seconds filename extension e You can use the Archive feature see next section to store snapshots of your Family Tree These snapshots can be used as simp
249. ts 1 Age on Date Gramplet Age Stats Gramplet Calendar Gramplet Given Name Cloud Gramplet Quick View Gramplet Records Gramplet Session Log Gramplet Statistics Gramplet Surname Cloud Gramplet TODO Gramplet Top Surnames Gramplet ee a eee ae ae m m e Reports 1 Zs 3 Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual 12 Welcome Gramplet 13 What s Next Gramplet Sidebar and bottombar Person 1 Attributes Gramplet 2 Descendant Gramplet 3 Person details 4 Fan Chart Gramplet 5 Pedigree Gramplet 6 Relatives Gramplet Place 1 Place details Media Object 1 Preview 2 Image Metadata 3 Usage scenario 4 The interface 1 Data Fields 2 Buttons Introduction Books Graphical Reports 1 Ancestor Tree 2 Calendar 3 Descendant Tree 4 Fan Chart 5 Statistics Chart 6 TimelineChart Graphs 1 Family Lines Graph 2 Hourglass Graph 3 Relationship Graph Text Reports 1 Ahnentafel Report 2 Birthday and Anniversary Report 3 Complete Individual Report From Gramps Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual 4 Descendant Report 1 General 5 Detailed Ancestral Report 2 Family Tree 6 Detailed Descendant Report 3 Display 7 End of Line Report 4 Text 8 Family Group Report 5 Dates 9 Kinship Report 6 ID Formats 10 Marker Report 7 Warnings 6 Web Pages 8 Researcher Information 1 Narrated Web Site 2 Other settings 2 Web Calendar 1 Column Editor 11 Tools 2 Setting Home person 1 Analysis and Exploration 3 Adjusting
250. ts 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 modify and remove an event record from the database Note that the Edit and available only when an event is selected from the list buttons become e Names lt 2 Events Names 4 Sources Attributes Addresses 2 Notes Gallery 2 Internet Associations gt tp ey Name Type Group As Source Note Preview v Preferred name Garner Lewis Anderson Birth Name No v Alternative names 2 Gamer Louis Also Known Yes Names can notes too This is a note for the alte Gamer Louie Other Name No Fig 5 2 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 When you add a new name or edit an existing name the Name Editor dialog is invoked This Names dialog is described in the Name Editor section Attributes From Gramps
251. u 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 On the Person View not recognized dates will be displayed in bold by de fault Style for not recognized dates can be modified into Preferences 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 way Gramps will understand The Date selection dialog can be invoked by clicking the button next to the date entry field The Calendar menu lets you choose a calendar other than the default Grego rian The Quality menu gives you the choices of Regular Estimated or Calculat From Gramps selection GRAMPS Dual dated New year begins January l Quality Type Ww Regular Regular Second date Day Date Day Month Month 38 e nov v f Text comment 18 11 1823 Help Ocancel ok Fig 5 12 Date selection dialog ed 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
252. u in the boldface and ital ic type while children without children dead ends appear in a regular font If the 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 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 Person Right clicking on any person s box in the Pedigree View will bring up the context menu From Gramps Bookmarks Reports Tools Garner Joseph 1792 C o 8 E s P m 3 1 1823 Ce E w i A Garner Robert W 1826 7 04 24 Julien 3 2 1916 i Edwards Lucy 17 1 1799 2 4 1879 m 4 10 1849 illectakos George vers 0 9 1784 9 3 1864 Zielinski Phoebe Emily 12 4 1827 7 3 1882 m Daniels Phoebe 10044 Garner von Zieli ski Lewis Anderson Sr NE Fig 2 12 Pedigree view 2 Among other useful items the context menu has sub menus listing Spouses Siblings Children and Parents ofthat person Greyed out sub menus indicate the absence of the data in the appropriate catego ry Similar to the children menu above Childrens and Parents menus distinguish con tinuing lines from dead ends Fan Chart View This v
253. umber andthe sign You can add latitude longitude to these places in one of the following ways e Use the place link button on the Geographic View e Go to the Place View and use the Go button to search the place and it s location e Download the Place completion tool via the menu Help gt Plugin Manager If you download the data of your country this tool can add latitude longitude to all your places 15 Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Main Window e lock zoom level If you zoom the map to a resolution you want to keep then you can press the lock zoom level button and every time the Geographic View redraws the map this zoomlevel will be used e provider selection change Gramps uses OpenStreetMap or Google Maps to provide the map that is displayed With this button you can quickly change from one to the other The advantage of OpenStreetMap is that it is a free project so you can update the maps yourself with missing information via their website Via the toolbar Configure View lowing functionality is available e Map options e add crosshair in center of map usefull to add or link places to the correct latitude longitude coordinates e show coordinates in the statusbar button or via the menu View the fol e Time period this changes how the view divides events in groups e Network This view needs an internet connection If your connection drops away from time to time or is not always on you can set here to have the Geograph
254. untry Note that each attribute listedinthe 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 aiamaa research For example if you define Hair color as an Attribute for a person Fig 5 4 Addresses 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 Addresses tablets you view and record the various mailing addresses of the person You are advised to use a residence event to store information of residency of a person The address tab is offered mainly for compatibility with The bottom part of the dialog window displays the list of all Attributes stored in the GEDON st andar WETE Hr eitalienaleionacd seco Aue G the database The top part shows the details of the currently selected attribute in The bottom part of the window lists all addresses stored in the database The top the list if any The buttons Edit and let youadd modify and 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 From Gramps Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Entering and editing
255. uracy may be compromised due to out of date information Please help improve the Gramps Wiki as a useful resource by updating it Bl a What Next Perkins Alice Paula parents missing Adams Janice Ann parents missing Smith Gustaf Sr Death date incomplete Ohman Marjorie parents missing Smith Martin Death date incomplete Hansdotter Kerstina Death date incomplete Smith Martin and Hansdotter Kerstina Marriage date incomplete place unknown Hansdotter Anna parents missing Willard Edwin Birth date incomplete place unknown Smith Kirsti Marie and Willard Edwin Marriage date incomplete place unknown Nielsen Herman Julius Death date incomplete place unknown Michaels Evelyn Birth date incomplete place unknown Cmith Glue and Mirhanle e Cumh Marrinan Anta ineamnliata nliara rnb mm Fig 7 22 What s Next Gramplet The What s Next Gramplet displays a list of the most urgent information gaps in your family tree It is based on the following assumptions e You want to know first and last name birth date and place and death date and place of each person e You want to know father mother marriage date and place and if divorced divorce date and place of each family with married parents e You want to know at least the mother of each family with unmarried parents e The closer the relationship to the main person the more urgent the information gap Is e The closer the common ancestor
256. usceptores fuerent of English line 6 petrus Arts et Catharina 3 line 7 van de Voorde 3 Paste B Select All Input Methods gt ID NOOO9 Marker Complete x Type Original latin v Preformatted a B Help X Cancel Ww OK Fig 5 23 Note editor Important There is no undo button or save button on the note ed itor Just like other objects it is stored to your family tree on click of the Ok button If you do long notes con sider saving from time to time to save your edits in be tween e A context menu on the textview The most important entry in this context menu is the spell selection You are offered a selection of installed languages on your system with spell checking enabled e The text view where you can write your note e Some properties of your note 10 Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Entering and editing data detailed part 2 e ID aunique id for the note If left blank an automatic id will be chosen according to the settings in the preferences e Marker amarker setting for the note Complete Todo You can add your own marker by typing it e Type anote type You can add your own value by typing it e Preformatted checkbox Notes in Gramps are considered flowed for beautifull presentation in the reports In this setting newlines and white spaces will be automatically ignored so as to form complete paragraphs which are defined by an empty line between two textblocks When Preformatted is checked Gra
257. vate names and records should be shown e Missing surname in the input field you can determine how a missing surname should be displayed Default value is Missing Surname You can change this to or whatever is most convenient for you From Gramps F te Preference General Database Display Text ID Formats Date Missing surname box Missing given name box Missing record Missing Record Private surname Living Private given name Living Private record Private Record Fig 10 4 Text Preferences e Missing given name in the input field you can determine how a missing given name should be displayed Default value is Missing given name You can change this to whatever you want e Missing record e Private surname e Private given name e Private record Dates ID Formats This category contains preferences relevant to the automatic generation of GRAMPS IDs e Person Provides the template for generating IDs for a Person Default value 1 04d Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Settings ta Preferences GRAMP General Database Display Text ID Formats Dates Warnings Date about range Date after range Date before range Maximum age probably alive Maximum sibling age difference Minimum years between generations Average years between generations Markup for invalid date format Fig 10 5 Dates Preferences 10 10 10 110 a 20 lt b gt s lt b gt e Fam
258. ve installed pyexiv2 see above for directions to download and install this addon Pyexiv2 can be used from the command line interface cli as well and from within a python script 1 import the pyexiv2 library from pyexiv2 import ImageMetadata ExifTag 2 specify your image image ImageMetadata home user image jpg From Gramps Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Gramplets l Fig Image Metadata Gramplet Filter Image Metadata C 3 read the image Click a media object to begin image read Exif IPTC XMP metadata reference tags can be found here Example image Exif Image Artist Artist Key Value Smith and Johnson s Photography Studio image Exif Image DateTime DateTime 1826 Apr 12 14 00 00 image Exif Image DateTime datetime datetime now Add DateTime image write write the Metadata Usage scenario My perferred way to use this addon is 1 install pyexiv2 Install this addon Restart Gramps Click Views from the Menu bar and select Media Views Open the Side Bar Slide the available empty right view to about half the screen Right click text to the Side Bar tab and select Add a Gramplet Time Select Image Metadata Gramplet Ime Select an image from the left hand MediaView Artisti Author the rtist Author The interface Copyright Datarields Convert GPS Decimal A Deg Min Sec Ej Photographer 14 mm 1 ih a Clear a P a i Copy to Edit Area Description
259. vent information This dialog lets you provide From Gramps reference specific data such as relevant role attribute to further specify and document the reference Editing information about media objects Media 1855 06 25 scanned birth record GRAMPS Pan ET Preview Image PNG Sources Attributes Notes s References Fig 5 17 Media properties editor 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 fol lowing Media Properties Editor dialog A thumbnail preview of the object is presented along with a summary of its prop erties ID path date and object type 1 Adescriptive Title for this media object Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Entering and editing data detailed part 2 2 The ID isan unique record to identify the media object leave generated by Gramps 3 Date could be fora picture the date it is taken 4 Path ofthe media object on your computer Gramps does not store the media internally it only stores the path Set the Relative Path in the Preferences to avoid retyping the common base directory where all your media is stored The Media Manager tool can help managing paths of a collection of media objects 5 Mime value is the extension of the media object The central part of the window displays five notebook tabs containing different cate gories of information Click a tab to view o
260. vent to a Baptism event Finally usethe Cancel orthe OK button From Gramps Renaming events Once completed this cannot be undone by the regular Undo function Reorder GRAMPS ID passasi This page s factual accuracy may be compromised z due to out of date information Please help improve the Gramps Wiki as a useful resource by updating it This tool Reorder GRAMPS ID will change all the elements in the database to conform to the scheme specified in the database s prefix id s You can change those settings in the menu Edit gt Preferences and then select the ID Formats tab You can use this tool via menu Tools gt Family Tree Processing gt Reorder Gramps IDs Undo history Proceeding with this tool will erase the undo history for this session In particular you will not be able to revert the changes made by this tool or any changes made pri or to it If you think you may want to revert running this tool please stop here and backup your database The window will show a progress bar In different steps following IDs are reordered Reordering People IDs Reordering Family IDs Reordering Event IDs Reordering Media Object IDs Reordering Source IDs Reordering Place IDs Reordering Repository IDs and finally Reordering Note IDs In a next step unused IDs are searched for and assigned Custom IDs If you customized your IDs all those setting are re placed by the default setting So take care
261. version 3 3 a new system was im plemented to have even more tools available This sys tem is controlled by the Plugin Manager The Plugin Manager can get additional Addons for you Check the list of the available tools here Common Options e id ID Gramps ID of a central person 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 com parison are chosen with the use of custom filters The custom filters can be created in the Custom Filter Editor see tools util cfe that can be invoked by clicking the Cus tom Filter Editor button The resulting table produced by this tool can be saved as a spreadsheet Interactive Descendant Browser First you have to select a person or you start with the current Active Person Select from the menu Tools gt Analysis and Exploration gt Interactive Descendant Browser From Gramps Descendant Browser Garner Lewis Anderson GRAM x Descendant Browser Garner Lewis Anderson v Garner Lewis Anderson v Garner Eugene Stanley v Garner Howard Lane Garner Rita Marie Warner Sarah Suzanne Warner James Jeffrey Warner Carl Thomas Warner John Allen Warner Matthew Steven v Garner Barry Joseph Garner Andrew
262. vides 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 Clipboard makes extensive use of the drag and drop technique To invoke Clipboard either choose the menu Edit gt Clipboard or click the Toolbar Clipboard but ton Clipboard supports addresses attributes both personal and family events both personal and family names media objects references source references URLs and of course textual information of notes and comments To store any type of these records simply drag the existing record on to the Clipboard Pad from the corresponding editor Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Navigation dialog To reuse the record drag it from the Clipboard on to the corresponding place in the editor e g Address tab Attribute tab etc Tip Some objects are showing the link icon on the left This indicates that dragging such selection will produce a reference to an existing object not copy the object it self For example the media object file will not be dupli cated Instead the reference will be made to an existing media object which will result in the local gallery en try Tip Clipboard storage is persistent within a single Gramps session Closing the window will not lose the stored records However exiting Gramps will The Clipboard can be accessed with the Keyboard shor
263. which is conventional for the environment is which Gramps is operating that is DD MM YYYY for 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 af ter about ranges and spans It also understands the quality estimated or calculated Fi nally 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 applies 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 Spanish Slovak and Swedish languages If the localized parser is available a _ Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Entering and editing data detailed part 1 for your version chances are that other rules are in ef fect If there is no manual in your language yet you may try following your instinct and go with the com mon ways of denoting dates in your language If all else fails usethe 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
264. without applying any changes or 50 52 21 92 You can set these values via the Geography View by searching the place or via a map service in the Place view 3 Longitude the position relative to the Prime or Greenwich Meridian ua Note of the place in decimal or degree notation Eg valid values are 124 3647 af Clicking OK will immediately save changes to the 124 52 21 92 E E124 52 21 92 or 124 52 21 92 You can set these values via database All changes are immediate the Geography View by searching the place or via a map service in the Place view 4 ID an unique record to identify the place Leave generated by Gramps From Gramps Tip J 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 e Location The Location tab you view and edit the basic information about the place the Title which labels it in the database Street City Church parish County State Country place code Youcan type this informa tion directly into the adjacent fields they are used by Gramps for a better place man agement They are the place divisions 1 The Country where the place is 2 Second level of place division eg inthe USAa State in Germany a Bundesland 3 Third level of place division Eg in the USAa County 4 The lowest clergical division of this place Typically used for church sources that only mentio
265. xport data that you could send over the Internet Gramps is familiar with the standard file formats widely 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 Can I create custom reports filters whatever 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 colors and some layout of the reports You can also use Gramps controls in the report dialogs to tell what con tents 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 Why are non Latin characters displayed as garbage in PDF PS reports This is a limitation of the built in 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 print ing Note you might need to install gnome print separately as it is not requi
266. y Most operations will not be available To load a family tree also referred to as database select in the menu Family Trees gt Manage Family Trees to open the fam ily tree manager or click the Family MTree icon in the toolbar Gramps keeps track of your recently opened Family Trees and these can be selected by clicking on the arrow next tothe Family Tree button and choosing from the drop down menu For more detailed information on the Family Tree manager and the Family Trees menu see the chapter dedicated to this Manage Family Trees Tell me how to start right now We advise everyone to read go over the manual to learn all the details of Gramps Ge nealogy takes time so learning the tools is not wasted time However if you really want the bare minimum to start then read this How To start with Genealogy using Gramps From Gramps E E I Gramplets 8 People amp Relationships g Families 4 Pedigree Events eX Sources R Places Media Repositories EA Notes Fig 1 1 Initial window Family Trees View Help ID contains gramps py Q Find J Clear ID Father Obtaining Help Gramps has a Help menu that you can consult at any time It includes the following menu items e User Manual Direct link to the online Gramps manual you are viewing right now Mother Relationship 0 0 Yes you need an internet connection to consult the Gramps Manual e FAQ A l
267. y of the Gramplets If you would like to read more tech nical details about writing your own Gramplet please see Gramplets For more Gram plets that you can extend your Gramps functionality with see Third party Plugins Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Gramplets Gramplets t Blank Family GRAMPS Family Trees Edit View Reports Tools Help Family Trees ScratchPad Reports Tools All 2 Top Surnames Scott 9 86 Cooper 8 77 McKinney 7 67 Blank 6 60 X Welcome to GRAMPS Welcome to GRAMPS amp amp Relationships Family List 4 Pedigree GRAMPS is a software package Wilkerson 2 22 Peters 2 21 Naff 1 17 Thompson 1 15 0 Church 1 15 Although similar to other genealogical programs GRAMPS offers some unique and powerful E Events features eR Sources R Places 1 2 3 4 designed for genealogical research 5 Flora 4 42 6 7 8 9 1 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 Total unique surnames 231 Total people 933 Media Repositories Z Notes Getting Started The first thing you must do is to mem mh nm mamis FPamsaih Tenn Ta nen ntn Vv 10363 Blank Douglas Scott A Gramps Gramplet is a view of d
268. y use Gramps Most genealogy programs allow you to enter information about your ancestors and de scendants Typically they can display family relationships through charts graphs or reports Some allow you to include pictures or other media Most let you include infor Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Preface mation about people even if those people are not related to the primary family you hap pen to be researching And they may include features that let you exchange 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 Typographical conventions In this book some words are marked with special typography e Applications Commands you type at the command line 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 youcanclick e CTRL D Key combinations you can press on your Keyboard e Anything you type in The manual also provides assorted bits of additional information in tips and notes as follows From Gramps Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Preface Example Tip Previous Index Next Tips and bits of
269. ypes of information you can enter into your Gramps database These include Personal information about an individual names addresses birth and death dates etc Information about an individual s relationships marriages divorces civil unions etc Information about an individual s parents and children e Sources that document your research Keybindings Keyboard Shortcuts _ In addition to interacting with Gramps through menu at items and buttons you can use its extensive set of key bindings For more information see Appendix B Key bindings reference Now let us take a quick look at how you can enter and edit these various types of infor mation To add or edit a person oaaao This page s factual accuracy may be compromised due to out of date information Please help improve the Gramps Wiki as a useful resource by updating it From Gramps Gramps 3 3 Wiki Manual Entering and editing data brief Familiy Iraa te Gia sn dsb To edit information about a person already present in the database select the per son from the People View and click the Toolbar Edit button Family Trees Edit View Go Bookmarks Reports Tools Help lt Gramplets People amp Relationships Families 44 Pedigree 2 Events A Sources 4 Places 6 Media gt Name contains v Q Find d Clear ata Alternate w

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