Addon:House Timeline Gramplet

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House Timeline Gramplet - detached window - example with right click menu

Ever wondered about the history of a particular address? The House Timeline Gramplet lets you organize residents of different addresses in a neat timeline. Besides helping you understand the historical context of a property and how/when certain families were grouped there. The House Timeline Gramplet is also particularly useful for cross-referencing information during research. If you've ever come across potentially related family records with family-nee names at nearby addresses, this Gramplet lets you organize a person to a specific address and a specific time, giving you a clearer picture of potential relationships that may have formed around an address/house.

• Lists residents of an address in order of Date.
• Lists first known and last known residents at an address.
• Calculates the length of time an address/property has been occupied by family members.
• Calculates the total number of known residents at an address.

Usage

You can add the House Timeline Gramplet to the view you require from the Add a gramplet menu.

This Gramplet uses Addresses and you will see the following warning message displayed by the Gramplet if you have none: "There are no individuals with Address data. Please add Address data to people."

Configuration

• House Icon Style:
  • Standard (default) - Text draw house.
  • Small - Text draw house.
  • Unicode - Uses a text character for the house eg: ⌂ .
  • None - no house is shown.

To confirm your choice select the Save button.

See Also

• Addresses - Gramps Wiki Manual - Entering and editing data: detailed - part 3
• Why residence event and not Address?