Hello everyone!
I would like to introduce a new Gramps Gramplet — GeneHelp .
GeneHelp is a small Gramps add-on that helps you create genealogy requests on the GeneHelp platform directly from your family tree.
The idea is simple: sometimes family history research reaches a dead end because you need help from another person — a local helper in a specific place, or a genealogist who can give online guidance on where and how to continue your search.
For example, you may need someone to:
- find a document in an archive;
- check a place, address, or cemetery;
- photograph a grave, house, or another object;
- decipher an inscription, seal, or old document;
- provide local insight from someone familiar with a specific region;
- find a researcher or helper who can assist with a specific genealogy blocker.
One of the main ideas behind GeneHelp is automatic matching between requests and people who may be able to help. It is not just a notice board: the platform tries to find potentially relevant helpers based on location, capabilities, help conditions, and other signals. In spirit, it is somewhat similar to the idea of “matches” familiar to many genealogists from services such as MyHeritage, but applied not to tree matches, but to practical help with research tasks.
The Gramplet allows you to prepare a request based on the selected entity in Gramps — for example, a person, place, event, family, source, or another element of your tree — and open it in GeneHelp to continue editing it.
The project is open to the international genealogy community, researchers, and local helpers from different countries. GeneHelp also provides an open API so that it can be integrated with other genealogy tools and services in the future.
I would be very grateful for testing, feedback, ideas, and bug reports.
Links:
- GeneHelp website: https://genehelp.online/
- Gramplet installation:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jurchello/genehelp-gramps/dist/gramps60
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jurchello/genehelp-gramps/dist/gramps52
- Source code and installation instructions: GitHub - jurchello/genehelp-gramps: Genehelp addon for Gramps · GitHub
Thank you!