We are very close to the Gramps 6.1 release. You can see the technical contributions already accepted (“Closed”) and considered (“Open”) here: GitHub · Where software is built What’s next? Here are the features and improvements being considered for Gramps 6.2 that is planned to be released in Oct 2…

[image] jcsaaver: Set multiple surname as default in person editor. Set a default surname origin type. Oooh.. That sounds interesting. There is a lot of Cultural support potential in extending the Surname Guessing to have more extensive options for onomastic conventions in genealogy and li…

I’ve put a design plan together for Sub-Events. This differs in some ways than ideas mentioned, but it was designed to follow a Grampic Philosophy. [image] Sub-Events for Gramps — Design Plan · gramps-project gramps · Discussion #2409 This is a proposal for implementing the idea of supe…

Tags that are not limited to colors. For example, various cross hatched patterns, emojis, and even very short text strings (e.g. “DNA”)

[image] dsblank: design plan together for Sub-Events Some initial observations and questions… What is the impact on Gedcom import and export? I know that some people have strong feelings about the inadequacies of the Gedcom standards but, as of now, I’m not aware of any other standard that …

Thanks for the feedback! Some answers: GEDCOM import/export No GEDCOM version (5.5.1 or 7.0) has any concept of sub-events or event hierarchies. On export there are two options: Flat export (safe default): each event exports as a normal GEDCOM EVEN record, losing the hierarchy but preserving al…

[image] dsblank: Is there something big that hasn’t been started yet that you are hopeful for? I hope the following will be possible in the not-too-distant future. Some of these ideas have already been discussed or worked on: Storing DNA matches as dedicated data objects. Objects/things for…

[image] dsblank: Is there something big that hasn’t been started yet that you are hopeful for? Let us know. As Gramps is now moving to use the power of SQLite (json data) a simple DBA tool would be fine. It should be implemented in a way, so users, who don’t have a clue of what a RDBMS is, ca…

The extra super-event relation does not need to be more than an event property, similar to any other attribute. As long as this is implemented as references only, I don’t see any impact on GEDCOM compatibility. A Super-Event should behave like any other event: you can add participants to it, but i…

I added a small comment on your design plan on GitHub, nothing major. Otherwise, I think the plan looks really good. This approach will allow for very advanced registration, and when the time comes, it should also be relatively straightforward to extend this into “Events on Places”.

[image] StoltHD: The extra super-event relation does not need to be more than an event property, similar to any other attribute. As long as this is implemented as references only, I don’t see any impact on GEDCOM compatibility. A Super-Event should behave like any other event: you can add part…

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jcsaaver July 15, 2026, 6:53pm 37

Apparently This user wants the same thing

https://gramps.discourse.group/t/auto-unfold-multiple-surnames/9703

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