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[[Category:{{languages|Add_a_child}} How do Ito add a child...]]

Children are not added to a Person. Children are added to a Family. You can add a family around a Person or add a Person as a Child (or as a Parent) to an existing family.  A Child may belong to more than one family.However, only one Family should have a "Birth" relationship of a child to both Parents. The others families would be "non-traditional" relationships. The relationship to at least one of the parents would be Adopted, Stepchild, Foster, Sponsored, None or perhaps a custom relationship. You can Add a child: * [[#Adding a child from the Relationship View|From the Relationship View]]** [[#Adding the Active Person as a Child in a family|To Parents]]** [[#Adding a Person as a Child of the Active Person|As Offspring]]* [[#Adding a child from the Family View |From the Family View]]* [[#Adding a child from the Person View|From the Person View]]* [[#Adding a child from the Charts View |From the Charts View]]* From addons:** From the [[Addon:ImportGramplet|Import Text gramplet]]** From the [[Addon:DataEntryGramplet#Usage|Data Entry gramplet]]

To add the Active Person as a child of a new family, select the {{man button|Add New Parents}} button from the toolbar (in older versions of GRAMPSGramps, this button was simply called ''Add''). This will bring up a new Edit Family form with the Active Person listed as a child. You can then add parents by selecting existing people from the database or by creating new people.

To add the Active Person as a child of an existing family, select the {{icon|share}}{{man button|Add Existing Parents}} button from the toolbar (in older versions of GRAMPSGramps, 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 labelbutton|edit{{icon|stock_edit}} 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 GRAMPSGramps, 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.

[[imageFile:editFamilyEditor-reldialog-example-50.png|right|thumb|250px450px| Family Editor from Family view]]

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 by clicking on the {{icon|stock_edit}}{{man button|Edit}} button in the toolbar, or double-clicking 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 {{icon|stock_add}}{{man button|Add}} button on the toolbar. This will bring up an Edit Family form. On this form, you may add new parents and childrenwith the {{icon|stock_add}}{{man button|Add a new person as the father/mother}} buttons at the right of the labels for either parent or the {{icon|stock_add}}{{man button|Create a new person and add the child to the family}} button in toolbar below the Children tab. To add an existing person to a blank spot, use the use the {{icon|share}}Share button in the appropriate section of the Family Editor dialog.{{man tip| 1=Adding existing Persons more efficiently|2=To add existing Persons, you ''could'' use the {{icon|share}}Share buttons to find and select each, one by one. But when adding more than one existing person to a Family, it is more efficient to switch to the People view after using the {{icon|stock_add}}{{man button|Add a new family}} button in the Family View [[Gramps_{{man version}}_Wiki_Manual_-_Main_Window#Toolbar|toolbar]]. You can find and drag each Person to the appropriate spot in the New Family dialog. This saves the time that the People Selector would need to populate the list for '''''each''''' added person. <br /><br />Using [[Gramps_{{man version}}_Wiki_Manual_-_Navigation#Using_the_Clipboard|clipboard]] or the [[Gramps_{{man version}}_Wiki_Manual_-_Gramplets#Session_Log|Session Log]] history can also use [https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Drag_and_drop drag and drop] to improve the efficiency of adding recently accessed Persons.}}{{-}}

When you look at the list of children in a family, those with the same birthdate birth-date are obviously twins. But if you don't know the birthdatebirth-date, or only know the year, you need some other way to indicate the relationship. You can do this by having them share a single birth event.

Take for example, the twins Thomas and Peter. When you create the Birth event for Thomas, make the {{man label|Description}} say "Birth twin births of Thomas and Peter". Then add a reference to that same event to Peter's event list, either by ''[https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Drag_and_drop drag and drop]'', or by using the {{man button|Share an existing event}} button. Then set the shared Role to "''[[Gramps_Glossary#primary|Primary]]''". Set {{man tip|Manually set [[Gramps_Glossary#event_role|Roles]] for shared Events|It is important to set the {{man label|Role}} for shared events. When adding a new Event to a Person, Gramps assumes the person will play a "''Primary''" Role and guesses that by default. However, the Role cannot be guessed for participants in a shared Events and defaults to "''[[Gramps_Glossary#unknown|Unknown]]''". Non-primary participants of a Birth event for both people might include a midwife, doctor, birthing coach... but the Role should never be left as "''Unknown''". <br /><br />Be certain to set the Role to "''Primary''"each time a Birth event is shared for multiple births.}}Now when you view the event list for either Thomas or Peter, you will see the {{man label|Description}} reminding you that they are twins. And as you add details (such as birth date or place) to the birth event for either of them, those details will automatically display for the other as well.

Now when you view the event list You can search for either Thomas or Peter, you will see shared births by using a custom filter with the Events [[Gramps_{{man label|Descriptionversion}} reminding you that they are twins. And as you add details such as birth date to _Wiki_Manual_-_Filters#Events_Category_2|General rules]] ''Events with the particular type'' (where the type is ''birth event for either '') in combination with ''Events with a reference count of them, those details will automatically display for <count>'' (where count is greater than 1) and where all rules apply. You can also use the other as well'''Families with twins''' rule in a Family custom filter.

= Adding other informations information === Adding an occupation or other special informations information ==It is sometimes indicated in old documents that the person's activity was brewer, nails maker, woodchopper, etc. Edit You might add a [[Events_in_Gramps#Vocational|Vocational Event]] and include this as part of the description in the person and 's event. Alternately, you could make this an [[Gramps_{{man version}}_Wiki_Manual_-_Entering_and_editing_data:_detailed_-_part_3#Attributes|Attribute]]: select the Attribute Tab. There , add a new Attribute to add & select , and type the wished desired information. Type what you want to add.