Gramps 5.2 Wiki Manual
This is the Wiki Manual for Gramps version 5.2. All users are encouraged to edit this manual to help improve its readability and usability.
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Research, organize and share your family tree with Gramps.
Gramps is a free software project and community. We strive to produce a genealogy program that is both intuitive for hobbyists and feature-complete for professional genealogists. It is a community project, created, developed and governed by genealogists.
Abstract
This Gramps Wiki Manual for version 5.2 is the online user's guide, detailing most aspects of the Gramps application, a database for the collection of genealogical information. As of Thursday, 5 December 2024, the most current Gramps release is the 5.2.3 version. Both Gramps and the accompanying Wiki Manual have been translated into multiple languages.
You can also download the Complete 5.1 Offline Manual (English 20 MiB PDF and additional languages) last updated 27 Aug 2023. For previous Wiki Manuals revisions, see the archival versions made for previous releases of Gramps. (Search the page for "download" to find offline versions.)
The 5.2 Addons Offline Manual is available for review at (English 18 MiB PDF) last updated 10 Jun 2024.
To explore other sources of information about using Gramps, see the Information Portal.
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
- Print or save the Map
- 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
- Saving changes to your 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
- 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
- Events Coordinates
- 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
- All Events
- All Family Events
- On This Day
- Father lineage
- Mother lineage
- Siblings
- Relation to Home Person
- Same Given Names
- Same Surnames
- Person References
- Family References
- Event References
- Place References
- Source References
- Citation References
- Repository References
- Media References
- Link References
- Note References
- Quick View Gramplet
- Making your own Quick view
- Tools
- Settings
- Preferences
- Other settings
- Customizing
- Filters
- 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?
- Does Gramps have an Example Tree?
- Bugs and requests
- Adding to and editing my database
- Appendix B: Keybindings reference
- Appendix C: Command line reference
- Appendix E: Error and Warning Reference
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