I finally did an episode on GRAMPS on the Genealogy Software Showcase. My goal was to do a balanced demonstration for beginners, not a tutorial. I know people here feel strongly about it, so hopefully, you find it fair. [Featuring GRAMPS Features! Is It Really A Genealogy Program for All?…

Ed Thompson is presenting Gramps on Genealogy Software Showcase YouTube channel. Ed does his baseline example of adding 3 generations by hand, seeing what basic options are supported for names, relationships, dates & places. His takeaway? Gramps is easy to use… once you know how to use it. That’s…

[image] [Review]Featuring GRAMPS Features! Is It Really A Genealogy Program for All? By Edward Thompson Fairly good overall, watching him shows potential places where Gramps could be improved. From the thread started a couple days ago by Dale

Maybe we should list the sticking points and note how much each consumed in a 57 minute review: 25 Sep 2024 Fixed Featuring GRAMPS Features! cross-linking with Episode 7:Discovering Free Family History Software Dashboard [ 2:58 -3:45] Not obvious how to get back to changing column layout (He expect…

[image] emyoulation: had trouble with a couple Gramplets [36:15-39:32] installed the Person Overview addon & couldn’t find it in the interface because, although labeled with a Category name, it isn’t clear that the Gramplet registration NavType limits it to Person views, and the Gramplet is ca…

[image] emyoulation: [9:52-11:26] Couldn’t find his preferred date format (Just missed the option. The preferred format was there but maybe he was expecting to see “dd mmm yyyy” instead of “DAY MON YEAR”). He also questioned the need to restart Gramps for a Date format change. Ed Thompson’s d…

Ed Thompson did another 1:01:47 Genealogy Software Showcase video called “ How-to create webpages with your desktop genealogy program. Is it really this easy? ”. It was produced a couple weeks after the Gramps presentation (about 1 Apr 2021) and adresses generating static genealogy websites. After th…

I share some of the points (and more) how disorienting the Relationship View is. In more detail, with suggestions: No highlight: The active person is hard to locate in the list, as it is neither at the top nor at the leftmost position, neither it is highlighted in any form. Some highlighting (some…

As a fresh beginner, gramps looks a little messy. Im saying that with honesty but respect. As a developer myself I know this is a hard job. To be beginner friendly, the person file should be simpler and neat. We should access easily to the parents’ files or to the children files with one click, add…

I do find the application overwhelming. I’ll have to judge if it’s the right tool for me. Do people in this community ever do live introductions to the program, so that beginners can ask questions? I can see the value in all the features, but to make use of them this kind of thing would be invaluabl…

“Genealogy” means different things to different people. For example, someone may be interested in tracing their surname back as many centuries as possible. Another might want to find all the descendants of particular couple. A lady I know focuses on the ‘family stories’ like Uncle So-and-so loved…

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From the thread started a couple days ago by Dale

Topic		Replies	Views
Just looking for someone to interview from the Gramps Project (Genealogy Showcase invitation) Help	21	1994	April 14, 2024
Some questions of the beginner user that feels confused about look and functionality Help	35	1592	April 12, 2025
Welcome & FAQ reincarnate Ideas novice	42	1900	May 24, 2026
Was Gramps your first? Genealogy	28	1490	October 9, 2025
Simple Starter question about data input - how? Help	44	3748	May 16, 2020

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