Did anyone here start their family history journey with Gramps? It comes up regularly that we should make Gramps easier for new users. Generally, people seem to assume this means people who are brand-new to genealogy. I would submit that Gramps deserves to be your last genealogy software. It is …

I find I am in agreement with Craig on most of his outline. I have been using Gramps now since somewhere around 2010, after I had trialled several other products, and I needed something that gave me more control, and flexibility of output. I had also grown to a database then of several thousand ind…

I followed a similar path. My father was using Family Tree Maker in the 90’s and I was slowly getting into Open Source projects like Linux. I also shifted all my devices to Linux and found Gramps to be the best if not at the time the only viable solution. It did have a bit of a learning curve but I …

I inherited some family history in the form of narratives but I had no access to the genealogy software that held the records on which the narratives were based so I went looking for suitable software. My main criteria were ‘free’ and ‘for Windows’. Unsurprisingly, Gramps came up early on in my se…

[image] stuck: Once I’d got that far it, at last, dawned on me that Gramps is primarily a relational db, not something for drawing a ‘family tree’. I couldn’t agree more! For people with past db experience or at least the aptitude to visualize in db terms, Gramps is great. Otherwise, it is …

[image] trlvn: Did anyone here start their family history journey with Gramps? No, but as you stated, I hope Gramps keeps evolving enough that I don’t have to move off. My journey started with Brothers Keeper (DOS, on floppies) then Family Tree Maker (Windows), then PhpGedView and finally sin…

More or less. One of my parents and a grandparent had done a bit of digging, partially on paper and partially on one of the more popular paid web platforms. I have concerns regarding privacy, whether or not my work would be commercially used etc. so I looked for something clean; preferably open-sou…

Gramps was my first. My late mother made a lot of researches and stored all her data in Haza-Data (commercial on DOS and probably not known outside Belgium (and maybe the Netherlands). Hazadata could export gedcom. When she died in 2002 we were stuck, but not before we had been abled to get a compl…

Yes it was, I found it and liked it (free, offline, made by dedicated volunteers), years ago. I do not have a background in databases, and I struggle with every update. I do not understand “gramplets” and simply use the “graphics” (grafieken in the Dutch version). I recently tried Legacy but it is t…

I asked a similar question on the GRAMPS for Genealogists Facebook group a couple years ago: Nov 2022 Do you remember when you first started Gramps? Jan 2022 How did you get started with the Gramps software?

[image] trlvn: Folks that are brand new to genealogy should probably start with one of the commercial packages. Those packages are expressly designed for ease of use and offer new-user support that is well beyond what this project is capable of. Yes I did start with Gramps (~15 years ago), wh…

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