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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
   1. Overview
   2. Start Gramps
   3. Choosing a Family Tree
   4. Tell me how to start right now!
   5. Obtaining Help
3. Main Window
   1. Main Window
      1. Menubar
      2. Toolbar
      3. Navigator
      4. Display area
      5. Status Bar and Progress Bar
      6. Bottombar and Sidebar
   2. Switching Navigator modes
   3. Switching Categories
   4. Switching Views
   5. Column Editor
   6. Filters
   7. Sorting columns
   8. When something goes wrong
      1. Alerts
      2. Warnings
      3. Errors
4. Categories
   1. Categories of the Navigator
   2. Dashboard Category
   3. People Category
   4. Relationships Category
   5. Families Category
   6. Charts Category
   7. Events Category
   8. Places Category
   9. Geography Category
   10. Sources Category
   11. Citations Category
   12. Repositories Category
   13. Media Category
   14. Notes Category
5. Manage Family Trees
   1. Starting a new Family Tree
   2. Opening a Family Tree
   3. Opening a GEDCOM or XML database
   4. Deleting a Family Tree
   5. Renaming a Family Tree
   6. Backing up a Family Tree
      1. Backup dialog
   7. Archiving a Family Tree
   8. Extracting a Family Tree Archive
   9. Unlocking a Family Tree
   10. Repairing a damaged Family Tree
   11. Saving changes to your Family Tree
   12. Importing data
   13. Exporting data
       1. Filters and privacy
       2. Export into Gramps formats
       3. Exporting into the GEDCOM format
       4. Export into other formats
   14. Moving a Gramps 2.2 databases to Gramps 3.x
   15. CSV Import and Export
   16. Probably Alive
6. Entering and editing data: brief
   1. Introduction
   2. To add or edit a person
   3. To specify a relationship
   4. To specify parents
   5. To specify children
   6. Adding photos and other media objects
   7. To edit events, sources, places, and repositories
7. Entering and editing data: detailed
   1. Entering and editing data: detailed - part 1
      1. Introduction
      2. Editing information about people
         1. An overview of the elements
         2. Preferred name section
         3. General section
         4. Preferred image
         5. Person tab pages
      3. Editing dates
         1. Date validity indicators
         2. Graphical User Interface for entering dates
      4. Editing information about relationships
         1. Family editor tab pages
   2. Entering and editing data: detailed - part 2
      1. Editing information about events
      2. Editing event references
      3. Editing information about media objects
      4. Editing media object references
      5. Editing information about places
         1. Supported longitude/latitude formats
      6. Editing information about sources
      7. Editing citation
      8. Editing information about repositories
      9. Editing information about notes
         1. Note tab
         2. Note editor
         3. Note markup and preformat in reports
   3. Entering and editing data: detailed - part 3
      1. Name Editor
         1. Type
         2. Given Names Section
         3. Family Names Section
         4. General tab
         5. Sources tab
         6. Note tab
      2. Attributes
      3. Addresses
      4. Merging records
         1. Merge People
         2. Merge Families
         3. Merge Events
         4. Merge Sources
         5. Merge Places
         6. Merge Media Objects
         7. Merge Repositories
         8. Merge Notes
8. Navigation
   1. Using the People Category
   2. Using the Relationships Category
   3. Using the Families Category
   4. Using the Charts Category
   5. Using Gramplets
   6. Setting the Home Person
   7. Using history-based tools
   8. Bookmarks
   9. Finding records
   10. Using the Clipboard
   11. Windows (Menu)
9. Plugin Manager
   1. Plugin types
   2. Registration and loading
   3. Hide/Unhide
   4. Actions
      1. Registered Plugins
      2. Loaded Plugins
      3. Install Addons
10. Gramplets
    1. What is a Gramplet
       1. General Usage and Configuration
       2. Summary of Gramplets
    2. Gramplets available in the Dashboard Category
       1. Age on Date Gramplet
       2. Age Stats Gramplet
       3. Calendar Gramplet
       4. Given Name Cloud Gramplet
       5. Quick View Gramplet
       6. Records Gramplet
       7. Session Log Gramplet
       8. Statistics Gramplet
       9. Surname Cloud Gramplet
       10. TODO Gramplet
       11. Top Surnames Gramplet
       12. Welcome Gramplet
       13. What's Next Gramplet
    3. Gramplets available in the Sidebar and bottombar of other Categories
       1. People Category
          1. Attributes Gramplet
          2. Descendant Gramplet
          3. Person details
          4. Fan Chart Gramplet
          5. Pedigree Gramplet
          6. Relatives Gramplet
       2. Places Category
       3. Media Category
          1. Media Object
             1. Preview
             2. Image Metadata
                1. Usage scenario
                2. The interface
                   1. Data Fields
                   2. Buttons
11. 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
    7. Quick Views
12. 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
13. Settings
    1. Preferences
       1. General
       2. Family Tree
       3. Display
       4. Text
       5. ID Formats
       6. Dates
       7. Researcher Information
       8. Warnings
       9. Colors
    2. Other settings
       1. Column Editor
       2. Setting Home person
       3. Adjusting viewing controls
       4. Export View...
       5. Modularity and plugins
    3. Advanced manipulation of settings
    4. Name Format Editor
14. Filters
    1. Custom Filter Editor
    2. Which filters in which view?
    3. General filters
       1. Persons-, Relationship-, and Pedigree View
    4. Person filters
    5. Event filters
    6. Family filters
    7. Ancestral filters
    8. Descendant filters
    9. Relationship filters
    10. Miscellaneous filters
    11. Tagging
        1. Concept
        2. Differences with markers
        3. Tags and Filters
        4. Operations with tags
           1. Filtering
           2. Tagging a selection of objects
        5. Tags Column

Appendix A: Frequently Asked Questions

Appendix B: Keybindings reference

List Views

Common bindings

All List Views bindings

People View bindings

Editor Tab bindings

Handy Shortcuts

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: User Directory

Appendix E: About Gramps