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"Genealogical Research and Analysis Management Programming System" -- free, open source, genealogy software.

"Genealogical Research and Analysis Management Programming System" — free, open source, genealogy software.

Why use Gramps? - 10 good reasons

Free and Open Source
Gramps is a free and open source, community project. It is freely distributable under the GNU General Public License which means you can freely use it, copy it, share it and even change it.

Full Unicode support
Language is not a barrier for Gramps. Whatever script you use Gramps offers full Unicode support. In other words, characters for all languages are properly displayed!

Rich set of tools
Gramps offers a rich set of tools. Research and analysis tools such as event comparison, finding duplicate people, interactive descendant browser, relationship calculator, data filtering, as well as tools for checking the database for errors and consistency.

Powerful graphs
With Gramps you have remarkable control over the produced graphs. You can define the family lines or even the individuals you want to include to portray relationships and you can create complex diagrams in the desired size and orientation, depending on your particular chart printing needs.

Wide variety of reports
Graphical reports can present complex relationships easily. Text reports such as individual and family reports as well as detailed ancestral and descendant, kinship, database summary and anniversary reports are amongst the many available options. You can combine them into a single ‘book’ format. You can even export your family tree to a fully operational web page in a snap and share it with your relatives!

Translated in many languages
So, you don't speak English? No problem! Volunteers have translated Gramps into more than 25 languages.

Expandability
Gramps’ open architecture allows the use of addons to give you more tools to work with your genealogy data. There are plenty of third-party plugins to enhance the program’s functionality which may not be officially part of Gramps. Find the right ones for you or make a feature request to the developers.

Cross-platform
Are you a Linux user? Gramps works with whichever desktop environment you prefer, be it Gnome or KDE. Are you a Windows die-hard fan? Or maybe a Mac aficionado? No problem! Gramps is the only true cross-platform genealogy application.

Pro’s and hobbyists
We strive to produce a genealogy program that is both intuitive for hobbyists and feature-complete for professional genealogists. There is a plethora of features, tools, fields and reports. It is only up to you how deep you will ‘dive’…

Community support
Gramps is a community project, created, developed and governed by genealogists. It is supported by a large genealogy community from all over the world. You are encouraged to report bugs and request enhancements to Gramps.

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Accessing data 'natively' in Gramps?

One of the several places I have my genealogy data is in gramps (see http://gramps-project.org/), an open source program written in python (a very easy to learn computer language for those interested). I have written several programs of my own…
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Setting event date as "preferred" in Gramps

In Gramps, if I have three different sources stating three different years for the same person's birth year, is there a way to identify one of those dates / sources as "preferred", while keeping all three dates / sources attached to the person?
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Setting up arbitrary relationships in Gramps?

I've just started using GRAMPS to plot out something people might find silly: family trees of comic book characters. Now I know this probably isn't something people would od here, but it mostly works, and I'm using gramps without relying on an RL…
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Using absolute vs relative paths for Gramps media?

When adding media such as pictures and documents to a gallery in Gramps, you are given the option between an "absolute path" and a "relative path" for linking the media to the source location on the computer. In simple terms (if possible), what is…
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Link trees on different genealogy softwares

I am making my genealogy on Gramps, I found a cousin who made it on heredis-online.com and an other on geneanet.org. Is there a good way to link those trees in order to not redo the work ?
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Is there a gramplet or report for getting the list of surnames from gramps?

I would like to get a text list of all the surnames in my gedcom from gramps. I can get a window with the info I need by using the 'statistics' gramplet and clicking on 'Unique Surnames'. This opens a 'quickview' window with the list but I can't…
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Filtering for specific associations in Gramps

Godparents have an important role in my family and, as advised in Gramps, I list such associations under the tab Association. However, I find myself able to filter individuals only by number of associations (how many people have x number of…
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Directly access Berkeley database for faster editing/updating than via Gramps?

I use Gramps as my prefered genealogy program with Linux and was wondering if it would make sense to access the underlying Berkeley database directly with a bsddb reader for faster editing or even adding of information than it is possible within…
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Register dates from a day-month-year format

I have imported a large amount of people as a .ged file, but the date-formating are in the wrong order. They are as "day-month-year" (ex. 23 apr 1850), but Gramps date options seems to only be able to recognize dates in a "year-month-day" format. Is…
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Gramps on Linux cannot read BDDB from Windows

I am migrating from Windows version of Gramps (AIO 4.2.1) to Linux (Debian Stretch, manually installed 5.0.1 deb file), but cannot read the BDDB as it complains that the database has version 6,0,30 and the application is using 5,3,28 (older). Which…
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Filter part of my tree in Gramps

I'd like to filter part of my tree, to be able to export only part of my tree for use by other people. I'd like to filter everything from my grandfather from mothers-side. He has to be the endpoint. I'd like to find all related people and lines…
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Bulk changing content of place field (e.g. search and replace) using Gramps

Can I bulk change the content of the place field in GRAMPS genealogy software? I am discovering a lot of errors since I started using (trying to use) the "enclosed by" feature. Now I need to fix a few and would like to do that with a search and…
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Removing options from name "Origin" field of Gramps?

Gramps offers a bit of a "stealth" way to add options to its dropdown lists. I've accidentally added "Suffix" data to the "Origin" field on the person page that I'd like to remove. I see the option in a .db file but would much prefer to avoid…
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Gramps syncing with Dropbox or via second Genealogy program?

I use Gramps almost daily and I am very satisfied with it. The only downside it has, in my opinion, is the fact that synchronising its database is fairly risky via Dropbox, s. here, or hassle-ish via USB stick. Does someone use another program for…
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Older version of Gramps for OSX

To recover from 'bsddb unknown version' I am searching for an old version of Gramps. I took some time to find out Gramps had an error with 9 of the 16 family trees. The most used trees can still be opened in 4.0.3-1. OSX is 10.11.2. My guess is that…
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