I'm cleaning up a family tree I got from my family and I'm using the Place Cleanup addon to help make the Places more data consistent.

It has been working fine but all of a sudden every time I search on a new location it pops up a "Local Match" with the same city listed every time. I then have to click Find GeoNames to complete the search.

Why did it suddenly start doing this? How do I get it to not show this city every time I search a new place?

Hi all, apologies if I've overlooked this in the Preferences, but is there a way to remove the black stripe/ribbon from the upper left corners of people (in graphical reports) that GRAMPS has decided have died? I would prefer to have control of whether any death-related information appears on charts.

I just learned about this app after a friend mentioned it for my family tree project. After playing with it for a few days, I was curious if there’s a way to add the family name to personalize the web page.

https://github.com/gramps-project/gramps-web/releases/tag/v24.10.0

AI Chat

This release adds a new "chat" view that gives access to an AI-powered chat assistant allowing to retrieve information about objects in the family tree database.

Please see the Gramps Web API v2.5.0 release notes as well as the documentation (set up chat, chat user guide) for technical details, limitations, how to set it up, and how to use it.

Other improvements

An issue was solved that caused problems with editing a note after pasting content containing HTML code (#490).

Lots of translations have been updated!

I've heard the concept of Repository>Source>Citation is to Library>Book>Page. That really does help for a lot.

But I'm having some issues adding things like Birth Certificates, which are effectively a page without a book (or a book with one page?)

How do you set up the source and citation?

So far, I've uploaded the birth certificate as a media object, set my local Births, Deaths, Marriages online website as the repository, created a source for each birth certificate and linked that to the repository with the birth cert ID as the call number, and then created a citation that is effectively a copy of the birth certificate. Should I just leave out the citation part where it's clearly not necessary for documents like this?

(EDIT: I see on reflection, citations are necessary, when linking a source to an event, it creates a citation unless you link an existing one. So I effectively have to add a duplicate information citation/source?)

For a second question, I've transcribed each birth certificate. I've been putting the transcription on the media item rather than on any of the sources, but I was also wondering if there's a standard practice for adding attributes. Do you make an attribute for each common field on a birth certificate? Then this makes the cert a bit more machine readable. If so, would you put these attributes on the media object, the source, or the citation?

Jewish religion is not an event. It is inherited when you are born. So I would like to know how should I set the religion.

Q1) When I click viewer on a gallery image it can take up to a minute before it shows - any idea why?

Q2) Any way I get change the default viewer?

Sorry if this is answered somewhere but I can't find the answer.

I've installed gramps web using the docker compose file and have gramps up and running now.

The question I have is can I display the married name as default? Searching seems to suggest changing a setting but I can't see the option in the web browser.

I want to modify the code of the narrated web site plugin, where do I even begin? I have tried looking into gramps/plugins/webreport/narrativeweb.py but modifying it doesn't seem to affect the behaviour of the program. Would be thankful if anyone knew what to do :)

I got my family tree file from some other member of my family, and whenever I open the People tab it selects that person. How can I set it so that it will select me?

Hello,

Newbie here. I have recently started to move my information to Gramps, as I was logging it in an Excel (I know, terrible idea, I found out the hard way). The thing is, I have a couple of people that I believe must be related to someone in my tree (same small village, same uncommon surname) but I'm not sure yet to whom.

I believe I could create them as individuals and keep them unlinked until I find out the connection, but I fear I might forget they exist as I move on further in the tree. Is there an option to "flag" them somehow that I can quickly spot them? How do you manage this kind of situation?

Thanks :)

PS. Apologies for the weird formatting... I'm on PC but it's still odd

I remember there was a way to see a statistics breakdown of individuals in the tree with certain attributes like hair color and eye color, but I can't find it anymore. I don't know what version I was on before or if it was a gramplet that I somehow removed. Help?

Hi, I have different categories of media attachments for the family tree:

1. Photos of people, houses, etc.
2. Scans of letters, extracts from various newspapers, birth/marriage/deaths registers etc.

What strategy of tagging or otherwise identifying the media objects to choose so that I could optionally suppress exporting the second category in majority of reports?

E.g. in Reports // Web pages // Narrated www: I do not really find any options there which would allow to "exclude" some media objects.

It looks as if marking the second category as "private" is the only option - since some reports have a toggle for those.

Any other recommedations?

I can't figure out how to see all members of all families at once in a chart. Is there a hidden option or a plugin?

I want to see all members, siblings, uncles/aunts, grandparents and their relation.

As far as I figured out: I can select a person with 2+ childs and I need to select 1 child to see the details. So I always see just a funnel / tunnel of the last member of a chanin, but not the root of their spouses.

https://preview.redd.it/oya9i4jcwcrd1.jpg?width=1057&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=47d768be3db9379641cf53b5f65ab0e1eddeb388

Hi all! I'm considering migrating my family tree / research from Ancestry to Gramps, and was wondering on the best process to do so. At this point, my tree is rather extensive and has many different sources.

I'm aware that Ancestry allows me to export my GEDCom file, but that doesn't seem to include the images from sources I've collected, nor the images I had uploaded to ancestry myself.

Is there any way to mass download all the images from sources I've referenced? What else do I need to know to migrate?

I'm generating a detailed ancestor report and getting a lot of the following type of information included. Is there some way I can suppress this? The source of the information is a GEDCOM file exported from ancestry.com today.

```

Records not imported into INDI (individual) Gramps ID...

    Line ignored as not understood Line 3473...

```

I'm new to Gramps and still try to figure out the basics.

My grandma married 3 times and carried over 3 names including her maiden name. How should I enter her as a new person - and to which family is she belonging?

Her Maiden Name is BIRTHNAME, Valeria. She married an NAME1 and made a a son (my half uncle). She divorced and maried my grandfather NAME2 and made a son again (my father). She divorced again and married NAME3. This 3rd guy died before her, but she kept the name till her death.

So we have multiple connections, but I can't add this to the person card of her - or should go this under relationships?

https://preview.redd.it/t3xdxistu5rd1.jpg?width=1183&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=93634be1b34ce2811daf12949ccd8fba21840fdb

I would like to find male cousins who share my y-DNA lineage. I downloaded the GED for my family tree from Family Search resulting in a tree of around 25,000 (deceased) individuals. I then downloaded all descendants of my 10th great grandfather resulting in another 20,000 (deceased) individuals, so about 45,000 people total.

I realize that the genealogy tree is not the same thing as the y-DNA tree. What I'm looking for is the male lineage chain from father to son(s) to grandson(s) to great grandson(s) ...

I would like to find all male cousins who died recently within the last 30 years or so and who are related to my 10th great grandfather (who died 400 years ago) via only male-line descent, and then see if any of their living sons or grandsons might be interested in getting a y-DNA test to confirm the paper genealogy.

I am running Gramps v 5.2 with the plugins for 5.2 and do see the y-DNA individual filters. What I'd like is to get a list of these recent male-only y-DNA descent lineage cousins and the pedigree chain to our most recent common Nth great grandfather. Since the Family Search tree is not complete, many of the y-DNA cousins will be dead ends with no information available about their descendants. So maybe the resulting list might be manageable with only a few dozen leads.

Recently I worked out the paper genealogy for a male cousin of mine and figured out that he had to be my father's 3rd cousin through a forefather who died a little over 200 years ago. He took a y-DNA test and confirmed that we indeed do share a related haplogroup. I'd like to push the genealogy paper trail back another 200 years (where there are a lot less records) by confirming with a y-DNA test of a very distant cousin [8th to 11th range]

Hi all, I'm returning to Gramps after a fairly break and I'm pretty rusty! I've had to install it on a different computer (a Windows PC). I think there may have been an update since the version I was using previously (on Linux, with a possibly out-of-date version in the repository). I can't see the Forms Gramplet any more - has that been retired? If so then I'd be grateful for advice on the best way of entering Census information please.

Hello, I'd like to take my work to a family reunion this year and just set up the laptop and let people browse the family tree but obviously I don't need the technical challenged folks accidentally making changes.

Thanks

Gramps 5.2.3

Detailed descendant report

Is it possible to include Mr, Ms automatically in this report?

Edit: Another thing - the report seems to treat some alive persons as dead. It has statements like: "xxx was the son of yyy". xxx doesn't have either the birth or death dates so I think it is just an estimation but a wrong one. How to fix it?

Thank you for your help.

If I make an association, I have to create it separately for both people. Is there any way to create it for both at once to not do double work?

Recently I was given an IPad as a gift. The last time I used an Apple product was the 1st Gen IPod. Even though I am not a fan of this tech, I thought it would be a good one stop for my genealogy research.

So here's the question does anyone know a work around for an android/Microsoft user to put gramps on this IPad. I do not have any access of any other Apple products or tech other than this Ipad gift.

I really like the gramps software and have already input over 200 years of family history. I really do not want to lose the work I have done or have to start over just to use this IPad. Any tips or tricks would be greatly appreciated.

Hi,

I am trying to import .csv files, but have hit a snag. The people I have built the .csv file for unsurprisingly had multiple occupations and places of living over the courses of their lives, not just one. Is there any way to import multiple places/occupations for a given person using .csv?

Sorry for asking, I'm quite a newbie to Gramps. Is there a way to display people's first and last names in bold in "chart"?
Ty

Gramps has a steep learning curve.

When I first started using the software (nearly a decade ago now), figuring out now to rough in the beginnings of a tree (to explore how the Categories worked) took hours. The workflow clicked eventually and data-entry started making sense. (Although it later became obvious that I had been doing almost everything the hard way.)

Do you have ideas for simple changes that would give a new user some gratification in the first 15 minutes after installation?

I think many defaults are inapproiate for new users... including the assortment of gramplets on the Dashboard.

I am trying to create a fanchart of my ancestors with the colors indicating the country of origin, something like this:

https://preview.redd.it/ipffpof35ckd1.png?width=1156&format=png&auto=webp&s=fb2af7f7fd161feb244452be573cb637981e971b

It doesn't seem to be possible with the standard options on the fanchart report, I also didn't find any plugins. I am not afraid of writing some python code if it come to it but am at a loss on where to begin. Any ideas?

Hi!

This is a sample testing family tree to illustrate dates using GRAMPS: AIO64-5.2.3-r1-aa03f5a on Windows.

https://preview.redd.it/1ygr5zirb3kd1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=5964b1e78a062a162d87902262557e4ffb4b0440

In the Events tab, I can sort the Date by ascending to descending, and vice versa. However, when events in the B.C.E. are involved, the sorting gets... weird ('AUTO' arrow; main Events tab). I'd like for it to be sorted where it is chronologically accurate ('MANUAL' arrow; Specific Person's Event tab). Is there a way to accurately sort events chronologically in the main Events tab?

I have tried to increase the limits in gramps.ini to the following, but it has not affected the sorting.

date-about-range=100000000000
date-after-range=100000000000
date-before-range=100000000000
[...]
max-age-prob-alive=100000000000
max-sib-age-diff=100000000000

I am not adept at coding, and would be grateful for any workarounds, insights, etc. Have a lovely day!

Hi all,

There are two sections in the events: Reference Information and Shared Information. I don't understand the difference between the two or how to use them. Could anyone please explain it?

The explanation in the documentation is pretty poor:

The Events dialog includes two sections, Reference Information and Shared Information.
The Reference Information section indicates the details associated with the particular reference to this Event: General, Notes, Attributes.
The Shared Information displays: General, Source Citations, Attributes, Notes, Gallery, References.