# Trouble setting home person

**URL:** <https://gramps.discourse.group/t/trouble-setting-home-person/7931>\
**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [July 8, 2025, 2:57pm UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/trouble-setting-home-person/7931 "2025-07-08T14:57:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![Meg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/35a633/32.png) [@Meg](https://gramps.discourse.group/u/Meg)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2025, 2:57pm UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/trouble-setting-home-person/7931/1 "2025-07-08T14:57:44Z")

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I can’t seem to set my home person. I select the person in the People view, go to Edit \> Set Home person … and nothing happens. No home person is set. Not sure what to try next!

Gramps v. 6.0.3, Linux OS

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**Author:** ![emyoulation](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/gramps.discourse.group/emyoulation/32/67_2.png) [@emyoulation](https://gramps.discourse.group/u/emyoulation)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2025, 3:19pm UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/trouble-setting-home-person/7931/2 "2025-07-08T15:19:22Z")

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There’s little visible change when setting that Home Person relationship.

To make it more visible and to verify the Home Person setting, go to the [Display options in the Data tab](https://gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php/Gramps_6.0_Wiki_Manual_-_Settings#Display_Options) of Edit → Preferences. Change the Status bar setting to “Relationship to Home Person” from the default which identifies the Active Person.

Then in the Relationship view, select a parent or sibling of your suspected Home Person. The lower right of the main window should show the appropriate relationship.

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**Author:** ![DaveSch](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/gramps.discourse.group/davesch/32/40_2.png) [@DaveSch](https://gramps.discourse.group/u/DaveSch)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2025, 3:19pm UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/trouble-setting-home-person/7931/3 "2025-07-08T15:19:54Z")

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When setting the home person, no banners or stars appear. The active person is quietly set to be the Home Person.

Navigate to a different person, then select the Home Person icon. Does the view jump back to the home person?

You can set the Home Person from a people list (menu \>\> Edit \>\> set Home Person) or when editing a person’s record, right-click in the Tags area, then set the person as the home person.

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**Author:** ![Meg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/35a633/32.png) [@Meg](https://gramps.discourse.group/u/Meg)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2025, 3:56pm UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/trouble-setting-home-person/7931/4 "2025-07-08T15:56:28Z")

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THANK YOU - yes that was it. In the past I had the relationship to the home person displayed in the status bar, and in a recent update it must have reverted back. I thought it meant the home person wasn’t set, but it was actually just that the relationship to the home person wasn’t showing at the bottom. THANK YOU!

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/gramps/original/1X/2ac1e712b7adf612e31ca08a55419f4cf37c0158.png) [@system](https://gramps.discourse.group/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2025, 3:56pm UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/trouble-setting-home-person/7931/5 "2025-08-07T15:56:47Z")

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Closed on August 7, 2025, 3:56pm UTC

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