Gramps 5.1 Wiki Manual
This is the wiki manual for Gramps version 5.1. All users are encouraged to edit this manual to help improve its readability and usability.
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Abstract
This Gramps Wiki Manual for version 5.1 is the online user's guide, detailing most aspects of the Gramps application. As of Wednesday, 4 October 2023, the most current Gramps release is the 5.1.6 version. The Wiki Manual has been translated into multiple languages.
For older Wiki Manuals see the archival versions made for previous releases of Gramps. The last downloadable manual (for offline use) is for version 3.3.x of Gramps.
Table of Contents
- What's new?
- Getting started
- Main Window
- Categories
- Categories of the Navigator
- Dashboard Category
- People Category
- Relationships Category
- Families Category
- Charts Category
- Events Category
- Places Category
- Geography Category
- The different views
- Usage
- The configuration
- How to zoom and move around the map ?
- The mouse actions on the map
- The menu popup
- Click on a marker
- Adding or Linking to a place
- Adding places from KML files
- How to change the map provider ?
- Can we change the marker's color ?
- How to get/remove the crosshair ?
- How to lock/unlock the map ?
- Prerequisites to see the geography view
- Possible problems
- Geography Category Bottombar tabs
- Geography Category Sidebar tabs
- Filter
- Sources Category
- Citations Category
- Repositories Category
- Media Category
- Notes Category
- Manage Family Trees
- Starting a new Family Tree
- Opening a Family Tree
- Opening a GEDCOM or XML database
- Deleting a Family Tree
- Renaming a Family Tree
- Backing up a Family Tree
- Archiving a Family Tree
- Extracting a Family Tree Archive
- Unlocking a Family Tree
- Repairing a damaged Family Tree
- Converting a BSDDB Family Tree to SQlite
- Saving changes to your Family Tree
- Importing data
- Exporting data
- CSV Import and Export
- Probably Alive
- Entering and editing data: brief
- Entering and editing data: detailed
- Entering and editing data: detailed - part 1
- Entering and editing data: detailed - part 2
- Entering and editing data: detailed - part 3
- Navigation
- Plugin Manager
- Gramplets
- What is a Gramplet
- Gramplets
- 2-Way Fan Chart
- Age on Date
- Age Stats
- Ancestors
- Attributes
- Calendar
- Children
- Citations
- Descendant Fan Chart
- Descendants
- Details
- Events
- Fan Chart
- FAQ
- Filter
- Gallery
- Given Name Cloud
- Image Metadata
- Locations
- Notes
- Pedigree
- Preview
- Quick View
- Records
- References
- Relatives
- Residence
- Session Log
- SoundEx
- Statistics
- Surname Cloud
- To Do
- Top Surnames
- Uncollected Objects
- Welcome
- What's Next
- Reports - Index and Summary.
- Generating Reports
- Substitution Values
- Books
- Graphical Reports
- Graphs
- Text Reports
- Common options
- Ahnentafel Report
- Birthday and Anniversary Report
- Complete Individual Report
- Database Summary Report
- Descendant Report
- Detailed Ancestral Report
- Detailed Descendant Report
- End of Line Report
- Family Group Report
- Kinship Report
- Note Link Report
- Number of Ancestors Report
- Place Report
- Records Report
- Tag Report
- Web Pages
- Quick Views
- Tools
- Settings
- Filters
- Filter vs. Search
- Regular Expressions
- Custom Filter Editor
- Which filters in which Category?
- Ancestral filters
- Child filters
- Citation/sources filters
- Descendant filters
- Event filters
- Family filters
- Father filters
- General filters
- Mother filters
- Position filters
- Source filters
- Relationship filters
- Tagging
- Appendix A: Frequently Asked Questions
- Installation
- Preferences
- Collaboration-Portability
- Is Gramps compatible with other genealogical software?
- Can Gramps read files created by other genealogy programs?
- Can Gramps write files readable by other genealogy programs?
- What standards does Gramps support?
- How do I import data from another genealogy program into Gramps?
- Can I install Gramps on a Linux Web Server and use it via a web browser?
- Reports
- Can Gramps print a genealogical tree for my family?
- In what formats can Gramps output its reports?
- How can I change the default language in reports?
- Is Gramps compatible with the Internet?
- Can I create custom reports/filters/whatever?
- Why are non-Latin characters displayed as garbage in PDF/PS reports?
- I would like to contribute to Gramps by writing my favorite report. How do I do that?
- Database - Gramps file formats
- What is the maximum database size (bytes) Gramps can handle?
- How many people can Gramps database handle?
- My database is really big. Is there a way around loading all the data into memory?
- Can I run Gramps from a database on a NFS share?
- What does "portable" mean?
- Why is the database format (GRDB) not portable?
- Bugs and requests
- Adding to and editing my database
- Appendix B: Keybindings reference
- Appendix C: Command line reference
- Appendix D: User Directory
- Appendix E: Error and Warning Reference
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