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During the years, I collected photos and family-documents from my relatives. I am using Gramps to organize the content of several boxes. I am not interested in portraying myself as a descendant of some illustrious person from the past, I think pedigrees are used mainly for horses, dogs and noblemen. Nonetheless, the history of a family may reveal some interesting facts. I spent quite a lot of time lately with Gramps, and found things about my relatives I didn’t know before. Since I have no background in genealogy, the use of Gramps was quite difficult in the beginning. In fact I needed several attempts to get it going. However, if the data is entered in a certain order, you do not run into problems.
And here is my very short how-to: • Enter the data for a person: last-name, first-name, dates of birth and death. • Enter females always with their maiden-names. • Repeat steps 1+2 for all known persons. • Define families: select partners from the persons already entered. • Family-records are for any kind of relationship, married or not. • If someone was married more than once, define several family-records. • (Family-records are automatically stored under the name of the male partner) • Within the families: select children from persons previously entered. You may add photos, documents, locations, dates and more – but basically you are done with 1-5.
I add photos in black&white 1000x750ppi ( > Gallery ). They will show up in the chart and reports. There are a lot of reports; for most of them, you have to select first a person as starting point, else you get some other (unwanted) person or branch. I use only three reports: > Charts (selected from left panel on screen) ⇒ • You get a nice report on the screen, unfortunately without print function. > Reports (select from top) > Text Reports > Complete individual Report ⇒ • This is a collection of all data for this person with photo (if added in personal record). > Reports (select from top) > Graphs > Family Lines Graph ⇒ • You may need to add persons to include (>People of interest) in plot, or • Restrict the number of persons (>People of Interest). • Else the graph gets overloaded or ugly.
Maybe you will find other reports helpful, even a website can be created from your data. Give it a try. At the moment, I stick to the three mentioned reports. There are some problems with genealogy: there is no end, you will always find another branch to follow; knowledge gets lost when people die, so ask people as long as they are alive. And as a last hint: Gramps can be installed for several languages, or you may run gramps in a different language than originally installed by using (here: swiss-german): LANG=de_CH.utf8 gramps “FamilyTreeXXX”