3,245
edits
Changes
→How do I add a child to a Person or Family?
[[Category:How do I...]]
Children are not added to a Person. Children are added to a Family. A Child may belong to more than one family.
A child may be added to a family in several ways, depending on the context.
* Add a person as a child of one of the families in which the active person is a parent.
You may either add the Active Person as a child of a new family, or as the child of an existing family.
To add the Active Person as a child of an existing family, select the {{man button|Add Existing Parents}} button from the toolbar (in older versions of GRAMPS, this button was simply called ''Share''). This will allow you to select an existing family, and adds the Active Person as a child of that family.
You may add a child to a family in which the Active Person is a parent in one of two ways. If the family already exists, then it will appear in the {{man label|Family}} section of the display. Click on the {{man label|edit}} icon, and the exiting family will be displayed in the Edit Family form.
If the family to which you want to add a child is not displayed, then you should select the {{man button|Add Partner}} button (in older versions of GRAMPS, this button was simply called {{man label|Spouse}}). This will display an Edit Family form in which the Active Person is listed as either the father or the mother. At this point, you may add children and/or a spouse.
If you wish to add a child to an existing family from the Family View, find the Family in the displayed list. You may either select the family a click on the {{man button|Edit}} button in the toolbar, or double-click on the family in the list. This will display the Edit Family form for this person. At this point, you may add the child.
If you wish to add a child to a new family (a family that does not yet exist in the database), click on the {{man button|Add}} button on the toolbar. This will bring up an Edit Family form. On this form, you may add parents and children.