Changes

In the default configuration, the The Pedigree View shows up to five generations, depending on the size of the window. Each person is indicated by a box labeled with his or her name, birth information (indicated by an asterisk * sign), death information (indicated by a plus + sign), a black stripe across the top left corner of the box if the person is deceased (or determined by Gramps to be no longer alive) and optionally an image if available. Two lines branch from each box. The top one shows the person's father and the bottom one the mother. Solid lines represent birth relations, while dashed lines represent non-birth relations such as adoption, step-parenthood, guardianship, etc. The tree starts with the Active Person on the left, and expands to the right.

To the left of the Active Person is a left arrow button. If the Active Person has children, clicking this button shows expands a menu listing list of the Active Person's children. Selecting one of the children makes that child the Active Person.  The appearance of the children's names in the menu differentiates the dead ends of the tree from the continuing branches.  Children who have children themselves appear in the menu in the boldface and italic type, while children without children (dead ends) appear in a regular font. If the Active Person has only one child, no menu will be displayed (since there is only one choice) and the child will become the Active Person when the arrow button is clicked.

Right-clicking on any person's box in the Pedigree View will bring up the "context menu".  Among other useful items, the context menu has sub-menus listing {{man label|Spouses}} , {{man label|Siblings}} , {{man label|Children}} , and {{man label|Parents}} of that person.  "Greyed-out" sub-menus indicate the absence of the data in the appropriate category. Similar to the children menu above, Childrens ' and Parents and Siblings ' menus distinguish continuing lines (bold-face italic) from dead ends (regular font).