In Family Tree Maker 2019, I am able to create a custom person report, picking a person in the genealogy program (and their descendants) and able to add the following fields: Name, Sex, AKA, Birth Date, Birth Place, Marriage Date, Marriage Place, Death Date, Death Place, Burial Location, Divorce Date, Divorce Place, Spouse Name, Father Name, Mother Name, Spouse parents name and Partners Name. After creating the report, I can then save it as a csv file which list all the fields as a header row in the csv file and all the data from the genealogy program for those individuals. In addition to the direct descendants, spouses also get their own row. What is not included is the Children of a person and siblings of a person. What I end up with a csv file with 2500 individuals (rows) with 17 columns of data (if I have it recorded in FTB for the individual).
I went down the ChatGPT rabbit hole and asked if there was any genealogy programs that could do what I was doing in FTM (saving individuals and their info in a csv file) and of course, ChatGPT said Gramps could do it (including adding children of person - I did not ask about siblings of person). When asking how to do this with Gramps 6.0.5, ChatGPT was pretty much useless. Kept saying options in Gramps that did not exist, etc. etc.
After importing my gedcom file into Gramps, I was able to create a filter to just have the 2500 individuals (persons) but that was as far as I got. I looked into the options for export and also reports but did not see anything like what FTM is doing.
I figure much easier to just ask here is what I am trying to attempt to do is even possible with Gramps vs. continuing down the rabbit hole with ChatGPT.
Funny thing is if you try entering the same info in most of the other AI sites on the web, they pretty much all say that Gramps can do it. Is there a plugin/add-on that is available and needs to be installed that can save as csv and grabs info from a custom filter created? Grasping at straws.
Hi Nick - thanks for replying. I did step 1, as you mentioned, and when I did it, it opened up a window to create the csv file (and give it a name, and a location on computer etc.). I am a bit lost for step 2 though - where exactly do I go to add more columns so that the info appears in the csv file?
OK - I think I found it. Click on configure button and check check off the columns I want. Just confirming, these are the only ones that can be added to the csv file? Ones such as divorce date, divorce place, burial location etc. can’t be added?
The “Export View” option will only export the columns that are visible in the view and the Configure dialog lists the only columns available.
Another option would be an export by selecting “Family Trees → Export…” from the menu. You can select CSV as the output format and specify a filter. By selecting the “Include people”, “Include marriages” and “Include children” options, you may get something close to what you are looking for.
The export will consist of three tables. The first will list people with their life events. The second will list families with references to the husband and wife and their marriage details. Unfortunately I don’t think that divorce details are available without modifying the code. The third table will list the children in each family.
Your only other options are to write your own addon or perhaps a Super Tool script.