{"id":615,"date":"2012-04-01T15:35:52","date_gmt":"2012-04-01T12:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/saisa.eu\/blogs\/Guidance\/?p=615"},"modified":"2012-04-01T15:35:52","modified_gmt":"2012-04-01T12:35:52","slug":"gramps-tool-for-creating-and-maintaining-family-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saisa.eu\/blogs\/Guidance\/?p=615","title":{"rendered":"Gramps, Tool for creating and maintaining family trees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gramps-project.org\/\">Gramps<\/a> is a great free tool for Family Trees<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>About: Gramps (Genealogical Research and Analysis Management Programming System) is a personal genealogy program.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>One of the common views is the Pedigree view.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/saisa.eu\/blogs\/Guidance\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/gramps2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Gramps2\" src=\"http:\/\/saisa.eu\/blogs\/Guidance\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/gramps2-small.png\" width=\"450\" height=\"354\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Ancestory Graph view might be valuable as well when browsing through the family tree.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/saisa.eu\/blogs\/Guidance\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/gramps.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Gramps\" src=\"http:\/\/saisa.eu\/blogs\/Guidance\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/gramps-small.png\" width=\"450\" height=\"304\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It comes with a lot of editing and research features. And it contains several different reporting possibilities.<\/p>\n<p>One of the interesting graphs is the relationship graph.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/saisa.eu\/blogs\/Guidance\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/rel_graph.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"rel graph\" src=\"http:\/\/saisa.eu\/blogs\/Guidance\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/rel_graph-small.png\" width=\"450\" height=\"580\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not yet familiar with all reporting capabilitites. It seems the Gramps is still missing &#8220;All-in-one graph&#8221;, which is available in GenealogyJ. However, working with Gramps is more pleasant than with GenealogyJ.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Language Tip<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For some reason Gramp is automatically using the local keyboard language. In order to use english, one have to customize file called &#8220;gramps-gui-cmd&#8221; in the installation directory (C:\\Program Files\\GrampsAIO64\\bin).<\/p>\n<p>Original content is:<\/p>\n<p><code>@echo off<br \/>\nCD \/D %~dp0<br \/>\nstart pythonw.exe -EO ..\\share\\gramps\\gramps.py %*<\/code><\/p>\n<p>And the new content is<\/p>\n<p><code>@echo off<br \/>\nSET LANG=en_GB.UTF-8<br \/>\nCD \/D %~dp0<br \/>\nstart pythonw.exe -EO ..\\share\\gramps\\gramps.py %*<\/code><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Genealogy programs and GEDCOM support<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Gramps support <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/GEDCOM\">GEDCOM<\/a> file format, and makes it possible to exchange files between different family tree programs. A <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Comparison_of_genealogy_software\">Comparison of genealogy programs<\/a> is available at Wikipedia.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>GenealogyJ as an alternative<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/genj.sourceforge.net\/wiki\/\">GenealogyJ<\/a> is a good alternative.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/saisa.eu\/blogs\/Guidance\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/genealogyj-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"GenealogyJ\" src=\"http:\/\/saisa.eu\/blogs\/Guidance\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/genealogyj-1-small.png\" width=\"450\" height=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The plus for GenealogyJ is &#8220;All-in-one chart&#8221; which displays all the family tree in a nice layout.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/saisa.eu\/blogs\/Guidance\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/genealogyj-allinone.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"GenealogyJ-allinone\" src=\"http:\/\/saisa.eu\/blogs\/Guidance\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/genealogyj-allinone-small.png\" width=\"450\" height=\"247\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>GenealogyJ can also export directly to yEd program.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/saisa.eu\/blogs\/Guidance\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/genealogyj-to-yed.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"GenealogyJ-to-yed\" src=\"http:\/\/saisa.eu\/blogs\/Guidance\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/genealogyj-to-yed-small.png\" width=\"450\" height=\"147\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gramps is a great free tool for Family Trees About: Gramps (Genealogical Research and Analysis Management Programming System) is a personal genealogy program. 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