Around the time that v6.0 was released, I was contacted by FamilySearch asking if we were interested in working more closely together to provide a solution to integrate Gramps and FamilySearch. This would probably involve transferring data through the FamilySearch public API. I am aware that there…

I use Family Search and Find A Grave extensively. An import feature would be nice, but I think there is way too much noise in their data to make it truly useful. For testing - A few years ago I used a script program (don’t remember the name) which will go to FS and download some portion of the …

The sync tool in programs like Legacy allows for manual synchronization with FamilySearch. You can choose which data you trust and want to import, and the sync works in both directions. If you come across incorrect information in an entry, you don’t have to import it — or you can go directly to Fami…

Just to be clear for my brain. Would this tool go out and find a FamilySearch person profile and then copy back into gramps all attached source/cit material, or, based on the gramps profile go to FamilySearch and retrieve all matching source/citation records so you can select the ones you want. Or s…

I have to agree with Bill both Family Search and Ancestry have so much of their records filled with errors because their transcribers or OCR systems were so poor that it is quicker and more accurate to do it manually yourself from the original images. “Places” you can forget about, the number of…

If it would work like the one in Legacy, you will connect to Familysearch via the GUI (you will need to log in with a FS user account), select what to do, e.g. a single person, get all data that’s “in a range” and select the ones you want, then your person will be “in sync” with the person id on FS,…

[image] Davesellers: Would this tool go out and find a FamilySearch person profile and then copy back into gramps all attached source/cit material, or, based on the gramps profile go to FamilySearch and retrieve all matching source/citation records so you can select the ones you want. Or somethi…

In the sync tool in Legacy, you can do all this manually — you don’t need to import any data you don’t want. You’re in full control of what gets transferred, and the sync works both ways. It is totally different from downloading a GEDCOM through a scraping script. With proper sync integration, you’…

I just wanted to put out a few images of how the sync tool looks like in Legacy, so no one think it is like a scraping script with no control…. This is a “Share data”-view of one of my relatives [image] This is the “Sources” view for the same person (not updated with what I have in Gramps and Ob…

FamilySearch Integration with Gramps

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StoltHD November 1, 2025, 6:31pm 2

I would absolutely use it,
I used/use Legacy’s FS-function, så I might also be able to test some…

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