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Abstract

The Gramps Manual details all aspects of the Gramps software application.

Table of Contents

Preface

Why use Gramps?

Typographical conventions

1. What's new?
2. Getting started
3. Main Window
   1. Introduction
   2. The different Categories
   3. Switching Views and Viewing Modes
   4. Gramplets Category
   5. People Category
   6. Relationships Category
   7. Families Category
   8. Ancestry Category
   9. Events Category
   10. Sources Category
   11. Places Category
   12. Geography Category
   13. Media Category
   14. Repositories Category
   15. Notes Category
   16. HTML View
4. Manage Family Trees
   1. Starting a new Family Tree
   2. Opening a Family Tree
   3. Saving changes to your Family Tree
   4. Importing data
   5. Exporting data
5. Entering and editing data: brief
6. Entering and editing data: detailed
   1. Entering and editing data: detailed - part 1
   2. Entering and editing data: detailed - part 2
   3. Entering and editing data: detailed - part 3
7. Navigation
   1. Using the People View
   2. Using the Family View
   3. Using the Pedigree View
   4. Setting the Home Person
   5. Using history-based tools
   6. Bookmarks
   7. Finding records
   8. Using the Clipboard
   9. Windows Manager
   10. Tagging
8. Plugin Manager
9. Gramplets
   1. Welcome Gramplet
   2. Top Surnames Gramplet
   3. Surname Cloud Gramplet
   4. TODO Gramplet
   5. Statistics Gramplet
   6. Python Gramplet
   7. News Gramplet
   8. Session Log Gramplet
   9. Calendar Gramplet
   10. Relatives Gramplet
10. Reports
    1. Introduction
    2. Books
    3. Graphical Reports
       1. Ancestor Tree
       2. Calendar
       3. Descendant Tree
       4. Fan Chart
       5. Statistics Chart
       6. TimelineChart
    4. Graphs
       1. Family Lines Graph
       2. Hourglass Graph
       3. Relationship Graph
    5. Text Reports
       1. Ahnentafel Report
       2. Birthday and Anniversary Report
       3. Complete Individual Report
       4. Descendant Report
       5. Detailed Ancestral Report
       6. Detailed Descendant Report
       7. End of Line Report
       8. Family Group Report
       9. Kinship Report
       10. Marker Report
    6. Web Pages
       1. Narrated Web Site
       2. Web Calendar
11. Tools
    1. Analysis and Exploration
       1. Compare Individual Events
       2. Interactive Descendant Browser
    2. Database Processing
       1. Database Owner Information
       2. Extract Information from Names
       3. Extract Place Data from a Place Title
       4. Extract Event Descriptions from Event Data
       5. Find Possible Duplicate People...
       6. Fix Capitalization of Family Names...
       7. Rename Event Types
       8. Reorder GRAMPS ID
       9. Sort_Events
    3. Database Repair
       1. Check and repair database
       2. Rebuild Reference Maps
       3. Rebuild Secondary Indices
       4. Remove Unused Objects...
    4. Utilities
       1. Generate SoundEx codes
       2. Media Manager...
       3. Not Related
       4. Relationship calculator
       5. Verify the Data
12. Settings
    1. Preferences
    2. Name Format Editor
    3. Other settings
    4. Advanced manipulation of settings
13. Filters
    1. General filters
    2. Event filters
    3. Family filters
    4. Ancestral filters
    5. Descendant filters
    6. Relationship filters
    7. Miscellaneous filters

see also Tagging

Appendix A: Frequently Asked Questions

Appendix B: Keybindings reference

Appendix C: Command line reference

Available options

Format options

Opening options

Import options

Export options

Action options

List options

Operation

Examples

Environment variables

Appendix D: About Gramps