Gramps People Category screenshots

Contents

Main window, People

This screenshot shows the main window in Gramps, displaying the People Category - Person (List) View.

This view shows all people in the database, displayed in a list and sorted by family name. The view may be switched to other views by selecting one of the buttons on the left-hand side of the screen.

Gramps Main Window (Person View) showing Search Bar

Main window, People with filter sidebar

This screenshot shows the same view, but with the sidebar filter enabled. The filter allows you to control which people in the display are visible in the display.

Filters

NOTE Use regular expressions only works on some fields

Some simple regular expressions to filter out persons with surnames spelled slightly different.

With this regular expression in the sidebar filter Name entry:

eri[ck](s|ss)on

or

eri[ck]ss?on

or

eri[ck]s+on

You get all four versions as result:

Ericson
Ericsson
Erikson 
Eriksson

See also

• Gramps_5.2_Wiki_Manual_-_Categories#People_Category