You can save yourself a LOT of grief by watching a couple of video tutorials on data entry.
The are many ways of doing most things. That’s because Gramps supports different styles of doing Genealogy.
For instance, to enter a family, you can:
- Add a Person, then grow the Family around the Person. (By making the Person a child of a new family or the Spouse in a new family via button in the Relationship view’s toolbar.)
- Add a blank Family via the Add menu, then add new (or existing) people to blank spots in the Family. (Drag’n’drop works well here.)
- Use the Data Entry Gramplet add-on to create people in selected relationships to the currently selected person.
- After adding 1 person & selecting them, the pedigree chart view can be used to add people. Double-clicking one of the blank boxes at the edges of the diagram will add a person at that spot.
It is VERY important that you add Marriage/Divorce/Engagement Event as FAMILY events, not Person events. Family Events are applied equally to both Spouses. (But not to the Children)