A distant cousin and fellow researcher sent me a new photograph. It shows a couple and their extended family on the occasion of their 60th wedding anniversary, 1 January 1904. There are approximately 35 faces visible. We know 10 for sure: the couple and their surviving 8 children. We’d like to figure out as many more as possible.
It makes sense that these are extended family. I ran the Gramps Kinship report and got 9 pages (1 ancestor generation, 3 descendant generations). Unfortunately, it is apparently not possible to filter that report for people known to be living on a particular date so it includes MANY descendants that were born later and a number of people that had passed away before that time.
If you could feed its QuickView report the target date and people, it might suit the need. It looks like the gramplet just needs a Person filter selector (and New Filter) added to be the interface.
After some consideration, I went a different route. To identify the people in the ‘new’ photograph, I needed an existing photo for comparison. I used the Graph View in Charts starting with the couple having the anniversary. Scrolling all the way left and right showed that I only have relatively a few photographs of this branch of the family. A couple of obvious matches have jumped out and I’m going to do a bit more research on some others.
BTW, I very seldom use the Charts view in Gramps. (I’ve been using Gramps for about 12 years, too.) So seldom that it didn’t even occur to me until Brian’s post got me to look for any useful add-ins.
Also, I located some newspaper clippings regarding the event. A list of the families attending was included and that has again narrowed down the scope enough that I can deal with researching each of them.
