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> I've heard it isn't the most user-friendly program, but so far I've found it intuitive enough.

The ease of use I believe depends on the experience level of the person and familiarity with genealogical concepts which is like learning a new language.

> If I got a new computer, wouldn't all my source and media links be messed up?

The media management tools in Gramps are great for handling this along with using relative media paths for the files.

One tip is make sure your backups (not just for Gramps) are really backups that you can restore.

I'll just leave this here:

> Custom Event Types > > https://www.gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php/Custom_Event_Types

and the wonderful

> Types Cleanup Tool > > https://gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php/Types_Cleanup_Tool

Which is very handy when you mistype a type!

One thing I'm liking about 5.0 is that it automatically makes a backup when you exit the program and that you can set the storage path for that backup.

https://www.gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php/Gramps_5.0_Wiki_Manual_-_Settings#Family_Tree

Seems to be a placeholder here "Gramps 5.0 Wiki Manual - What's new?" but not much there. A mostly technical release?

Non programmer here. Is this what you are looking for?

> get_family_from_handle(handle) > > Find a Family in the database from the passed Gramps ID. > > If no such Family exists, None is returned. > > > https://www.gramps-project.org/docs/gen/gen_db.html#gramps.gen.db.base.DbReadBase.get_family_from_handle

You may get better answers on programming from the developers on the Gramps developers mailing list.

> This subreddit is fan-run, and is not an official Gramps project website. For official Gramps project news and support, please visit > > https://gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php?title=Contact

You can also install the Media Verify Tool addon

Other peoples ways to organise files

Some clues. It's in French but all links are in English. I'll try some day but I don't have done it for instance. It'll be on windows, not on synology, my own one is a DS416 and it don't accept to run docker.

https://www.notion.so/plegoux/Gramps-dockeris-430dbacd8e4f4b7aa07c8c3adad256c6

Tell me if you are successful with your dockerization

I believe a lot depends on what's required to draw the map mathematically, and which method is used. If you look at the Graphviz website, it supports many methods to create graphs, and can handle quite large maps if the right method and combination of code is used. Just a browse through their documentation shows some examples of how it can be done, but most of it is way over my head.

I suspect the difference in how one type of graph in Gramps does work and another doesn't has to do with who wrote the code, and their knowledge of Graphiz. Again, according to their website, it can handle pretty large graphs, as long as one uses the right method and send it properly formatted data. I believe Gramps can be scaled up, but it would require knowledge of the different Graphiz methods, and some plugin code rewriting to take advantage of those methods.

As to removing the ellipses, I'm sure it's possible, but currently I have no idea how. I've only recently started dabbling with code, since I retired. I've always been curious on how all this works, now that I have the time I've been exploring it. However my present knowledge is woefully inadequate for that.

Example of piece of gedcom:

@I57@ INDI 1 NAME Maria Elisabetha 1 SEX F 1 BAPM 2 DATE 01 MAR 1731 2 PLAC G 2 ASSO @I426@ 3 TYPE INDI 3 RELA witness 2 ASSO @I427@ 3 TYPE INDI 3 RELA witness 1 DEAT 2 DATE 12 MAY 1799 2 PLAC G 1 FAMC @F33@

Gramps seems to error on this part: 3 TYPE INDI 3 RELA witness

Gedcom header: 0 HEAD 1 SOUR GeneWeb 2 VERS 7.00 - exp 2 NAME gwb2ged 2 CORP INRIA 3 ADDR http://www.geneweb.org 2 DATA x.gwb 1 DATE 22 DEC 2015 2 TIME 15:57:00 1 FILE base.ged.tmp 1 GEDC 2 VERS 5.5 2 FORM LINEAGE-LINKED 1 CHAR ASCII

Go to this page, this will help you launch Gramps from the command line:

https://www.gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gramps_5.0_Wiki_Manual_-_Command_Line#MS_Windows

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Hopefully, this will help getting error messages in the console so we can help you further.

Quick mention that one comes with Gramps and is called the

> To Do Gramplet > > https://www.gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php/Gramps_5.0_Wiki_Manual_-_Gramplets#To_Do

The other you install as an addon and is also simlary called the ToDo Notes Gramplet but renamed for Gramps 5 as the

> Note Gramplet > > https://www.gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php?title=ToDoNotesGramplet

I suggest you stick with the built in one.

What operating system are you running? The auxiliary packages depend greatly on your answer. I run linux, and one of the requirements, for example, is graphviz. Windows will have its own equivalents, but I don't know what they are.

Once the auxiliary programs are installed, for your example (Fam Descendant Tree), I typically select PDF Document for the Output Format, and check the "Open with default viewer" radio button. When the plot is finished my default PDF viewer will pop up and display the chart.

Edit: Have a look also at https://www.gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php?title=Linux:Build_from_source#Linux_package_requirements. It took me a while to find it, but the package requirements are here.

> Does anyone else have this issue or know of anyway it can be fixed?

Have a read of the No text, just rectangles on the Gramps wiki, the picture looks like yours.

Don't see an option like that, and agree I would be handy, why not request it as a feature from the developers?

> Calendar - Graphical report > > This report produces a calendar with birthdays and anniversaries on a page by month. > > https://www.gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php/Gramps_5.1_Wiki_Manual_-_Reports_-_part_4#Calendar

I do not know if they have tried with the web https://www.familysearch.org/ it's free and very easy to use.
I know it is not a software for PC, but it is an excellent website and it has apps for the smart phone

Latest discussion :(

Gramps-devel - 4.2.5 and 5.0.0 > From: Paul Franklin - 2016-09-09 19:04:51

> Should there be a 4.2.5 release?

> (I mean at some time, not instantly.)

> I would like to propose there not be.

> I would like to see all gramps42 bugs only fixed in > master from now on (since nobody seems to want > the gramps50 branch I have suggested many times).

> (For instance there is a gramps42 bug on the tracker > which is already fixed in master and a proposal to > backport that fix to gramps42, so that it will be in > "4.2.5" -- but I am proposing it shouldn't be.)

> I make this proposal in the hope it may cause > 5.0.0 to be thought of as being released "soon".

> This doesn't seem to be the case to me now.

> I detect no urgency, no priority, no schedule involved > with 5.0.0 at all. With one "alpha" release (and not > a second, never mind beta-testing, even though months > have passed), it's hard for me to detect that work is > happening. If it's happening privately, few reports (or > commits) of progress seem to be happening.

> OTOH, if the decision is going to be made that 5.0.0 > will not be released until (say) Spring 2017, since it > is thought that all the DB-API bugs will not be resolved > until then (for whatever reasons), then I have no > problem with a 4.2.5 (and 4.2.6 and 4.2.7) release.

> This is September. Whatever happened to the idea > that we would make a major release of gramps every > Spring, so the distros could get it into their Autumn > releases?

> Those of us who have added features to master > might like to see our work actually being used.

> Thanks.

Hope you recover your files safely.

> I installed gramps on the same folder as my personal files

Sounds like you used the standard GrampsAIO installer which should only ever be installed in the default program files directory!

For future reference a better choice would be to use the Gramps Portable installer from portableapps.com if you need to install outside the standard location.

The portable Gramps 3.4.x version from portableapps.com is unsupported by the Gramps project. If you want to install Gramps 5.0.x as a portable version you will have to follow this :

> https://portableapps.com/node/53238

and wait for portableapps.com to release it.

I've been using digiKam for years to read and write metadata, organize and tag my photos and scans. It's open source and cross-platform.

It writes tags and metadata into the file itself, using standard ITPC and XMP formats that are readable by any photo management application.

It also has very powerful photo editing tools, great for anything from minor color correction to trying to get the most clarity from old gravestone inscriptions and old, faded documents.

It's written in Qt and uses a lot of the KDE frameworks, but I've had no issues running it under a GTK environment. It's worth a look through digiKam's website to see it it will fit your needs.

I’ve started to use digiKam. It’s open source software, you can tag people, add captions and metadata to your images. I think you need to set up your preferences to write metadata changes directly to the files. You can add and edit geotags too, so great for old scanned photos if you know where they were taken. The auto tagging of the faces is still an experimental feature but it looks promising.

I’d make folders and caption the images you’d want to display in a scrapbook and look back on for the story instead of doing them all.

For gramps I’d pick out some key photos for events/profile to tell a story and reference the folder where they are kept in the sources for individuals.

Sorry, no I don't , I believe one of the past reddit messages here asked how large the userbase is for this 20 year old program but I believe it ends up linking back to a page on the Gramps wiki where a user collected information on it.

Also the wikipedia article has a link at the bottom of the page to Reviews on Gramps which probably will help!

By the way I've never used wikipedia as an editor, I don't understand why they are deleting the page but not the commercial program pages do you have to pay to be on wikipedia?

Yes GEDCOM exports from Ancestry suck; mostly because they don't want you to ever leave, think Hotel California, it would be great if Ancestry supported the open source Gramps XML format for both backups and imports , we can dream!!

One suggestion is to just Tag everything on import Add tag on import and as you work thru it have another tag that mentions you have verified the person/source etc..

Try installing the Graph View addon or any of the other views.

Do you mean this Descendant Lines report third party addon but what do you mean without the family circle as no circle is shown as an option on that support pages options?

> They currently render as boxes.

What do you mean by They can you link to a screenshot on https://imgur.com/ that shows the issue?

> Has anybody created any add-ons that would do something like this?

Unreleased addon currently in testing

> DNA Gramplet shows a DNA segment map as a graph. > > https://www.gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php/Addon:DNAgramplet

> It would also be great if the tag colors showed in the Person editor as well.

Often though this myself, same goes for all the other editors where tags are shown, including the "Tag selection" list, will you be raising a feature request?

> Is that possible, or is there otherwise any other indication of your direct line in Relationships?

No, but like anything with free software if you don't raise a feature request the developers will never be able to consider it ¯_(ツ)_/¯.

Was having the same problem as you but I got through it by following the instructions here firstly, then I found the themes addon under the New:Plugin lib section with the name Theme preferences. Installed and restarted and the option for themes was now there

https://www.gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php/Gramps_5.0_Wiki_Manual_-_Tools#Convert_paths_from_absolute_to_relative

https://genealogy.stackexchange.com/questions/13234/using-absolute-vs-relative-paths-for-gramps-media/13235

You might try the builtin Media manager Replace substrings in the path option, but before you do take a backup of your family tree and move the media files manually to the folder you want externally to Gramps then run the media manger and give it the new path,

Look at the examples given in the user manual:

> https://www.gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php/Gramps_5.0_Wiki_Manual_-_Reports

Also checkout the reports available on the list of thirdparty addons. My favorites are the networkchart and GenealogyTree addons.

> https://www.gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php/5.0_Addons

Download Gramps and give each report a try with your family tree and see if they look professional enough for you?

One thing I'm liking about the new Gramps 5.0 is that it automatically makes a backup when you exit the program and that you can set the storage path for that backup.

https://www.gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php/Gramps_5.0_Wiki_Manual_-_Settings#Family_Tree

Don't use AFN's but can see them mentioned here in relation to Ged import:

> Many GEDCOM Primitive Elements do not have exactly corresponding data elements in Gramps, and they are therefore stored as Attributes with appropriate names, normally the GEDCOM tag. This applies particularly to the header, submitter and submission GEDCOM records and particular fields like REFN, RFN, RIN and AFN.

and on the mailing list here:

> Having imported from PAF, and having had some AFN's on records, GRAMPS stored these as a person Attribute.

So it looks like you should store AFN's like they are imported; as Attributes on the person.

On the following wiki page the project states the following:

> ...Money raised by donations to the project will be used to fund the Gramps website and the services it offers to its users... > > https://www.gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gramps:Site_support

I use Gramps on my PC but remotely connect to my pc via my android phone (samsumg) and even better my tablet using teamviewer