I’m just getting started with GrampsHub online. I have a few small families that are disconnected from one another, which is how it is and should be. I imported 2 XML/no media files (myfamily.gramps).
Now I seem to have a main family tree, plus ‘floater’ parts of other families. This is mostly ok, but I would like multiple trees for these other small family groups. It looks like I can declare a different Home Person, to switch the focus to their main family tree.
What I think I want is a drop-down menu that selects from the various family trees (Elsberry in MD, Elsbury in DE, etc.). Or maybe selects from the various Home Persons. Or can you save a particular “view”, to select later?
Am I not seeing something? Am I thinking this correctly? Are these limitations in the basic GrampsHub plan? Any help apprecated, thank you.
Elsbury — families in Maryland back to the 1700s, in Delaware back to the 1800s.
in Gramps Web (or Gramps Desktop for that matter), you have two options to treat this:
a single tree, potentially changing the home person if you want to focus on a different branch
multiple trees, but they are completely isolated from each other (including the user system).
On Grampshub, option 2 requires two separate subscriptions as subscriptions are per tree.
If you want to separate both the families and the users accessing the trees, I would say option 2 is the way to go. If the trees are small, obviously the Grampshub subscription model is not well suited for this use case, but that’s the way it is - resource usage and administration overhead is also mostly per tree. You could deploy you own multi-tree instance (warning: it’s a bit more finicky than single-tree deployments).
Thank you, @DavidMStraub, for the detailed reply. It is very helpful.
I have found a couple partial solutions to what I am trying to do, which is to build a page of URL links (I call this a “link-list”) pointing to ‘fav’ Home Persons. It can also link to Help pages, or anything else to which you would like easy access. This is going to be a rather long post, but hopefully it will be of help to someone. I’m new at this, so please forgive if any of what I write is obvious, or has been already covered, or is outright wrong. When logged into GrampsHub:
Bookmarks — the simplest way to get started in quick linking.
Go to your ‘fav’ Home Person people page (Let’s say Jenny Doe). Above their bold name is a little Bookmark icon, next to a little padlock icon. Click the Bookmark icon and this will add your selected person to your Bookmarks page, to be clicked from the left column. Now you can quickly jump to this person and Show in tree, making it easier to switch between Home Persons. Other GrampsHub pages also offer the Bookmark link, so you could jump to a specific Source, for example, from your Bookmarks page.
Link-List as Task — adds many more linking options.
Create a Task with a name something like: Link-List 2025 Jul 30
In the Task Note, type in your “fav” Home Persons:
Of course, while you’re here you could add additional notes to these person links, like “Jolene’s half-brother“, or anything else. And, you can add links to any help pages or other resources that you would like to remember and to quickly access.
Note: Leave your URLs exposed and “raw“ like this, ie, spelled out. Don’t mask them. These links in a list can then be copied into other note fields, or even into the body of an email or elsewhere.
Link-List as Blog Article — the fanciest.
Once you’ve got your link-list as a block of text, you can copy it to other locations. For example, you could build a link-list of everyone in the Doe Family. Then, the list could be copied into the note field of the other Doe Family members. Lots of internal linkage with just a simple copy and paste.
For a Blog post, create a new Source item with a title something like: Link-List 2025 Jul 30. Once created, add your list of links into the Note field, and set the tag equal to “Blog“.
Note: Evidently, the Blog tag must be capitalized. Be careful to reuse the same Blog tag (color it red) and not create a 2nd new Blog tag, which can cause problems. Test to make sure your first Blog page is working correctly before moving on to a second Blog page.
I hope this lengthy post helps a fellow newbie out there. I’m happy to answer any questions, and to hear whatever suggestions you may have. Good luck!