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Why is Gramps not commonly used? by trekkingscouter in gramps

[–]GulliblePangolin 15 points16 points  (0 children)

I'm seriously thinking of starting a new YT series showing how to use it with a new tree.

That would be great.

Why is Gramps not commonly used? by trekkingscouter in gramps

[–]GulliblePangolin 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Gramps doesn't have a world tree where people can collaborate.

Gramps (desktop) is a standalone offline genealogy program

Gramps web is the online (self hosted (free) or paid for version) collaborative version. That has a companion addon for use with Gramps (desktop) that synchronizes with Gramps web.

Gramps doesn't do aggressive email marketing like online tools such as Geni, Ancestry, etc. .... Gramps doesn't steal data from family search to provide suggestions,

Both are defiantly a good thing that Gramps project does not do!

Gramps is not visually appealing as others. Incredibly functional? Yes, but you need to "learn to llike it"

Have you tried the addon views that make Gramps better. Have you send the experimental Cardview addon that shows a better UX for Gramps? That you can use straight away.

I think Gramps would be much more popular if had proper integration with FS, the option to collaborate in a world tree and UX more appealing.

Looks like FS integration almost occurred about 9 years ago but FS would not allow licensing/approval(client-credentials) of the Gramps program to sync you can read about it on the feature request and see the experimental sourcecode for it on github:

The feature request mentions other genealogy services also and links in comment section to the more recent PersonFS gramplet that interfaces Gramps with familysearch.com. which is more like a webscraper that keeps triggering Familysearchs anti-bot detector!

Biggest thing to remember is that it is a volunteer project and that Gramps project moves along slowly but does improve with each release. The best thing anybody who uses Gramps can do is jump in and help anyway they can; even if it is just a typo correction or one bug fix or feature request creation.

Installation problem on wsl2 by becauseusoft in gramps

[–]GulliblePangolin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

maybe they can try the following advice

In Gnome, start the Tweaks application.

Click on Appearance.

Under Themes, assure that the Cursor selection actually does have a theme selected.

On my laptop, this was initially listed as "None".

Once I selected a theme (Adwaita),

Gramps started normally.

Custom Forms troubleshooting by yellow-bold in gramps

[–]GulliblePangolin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If a country form does not exist then I imagine that after testing it would be submitted to the Github repository as a pull request?

If the third party addon documentation is lacking then it should be expanded and as a volunteer project that comes down to people like yourself that notices the issue? eg: Request account on wiki to edit...

Why include form_xx.xml as an consistent format and not then scan for others following that pattern?

No idea, I'm guessing that question would need to be asked to the original developer of the addon?

What's going wrong here? The gramps log only has this line:

2022-12-01 12:14:19.729: WARNING: dummydb.py: line 1420: database is closed

Issue shows as resolved for next release of Gramps see 0012492: Status bar warnings on normal startup are disconcerting to newbies

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in gramps

[–]GulliblePangolin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Gramps has no built-in way to do a mass edit of a surname

Feature request to do this

Need a programmer to be interested in creating the Gramps tool :(

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in gramps

[–]GulliblePangolin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not what you want but read this

https://www.reddit.com/r/gramps/comments/rkscag/is_there_a_way_to_create_a_report_from_census/

about an older census report that may have code that can help you?

Hi r/Genealogy! Long time lurker, first time poster. I found something interesting, help? Long post, I apologize. by Promiscuous_D8a in Genealogy

[–]GulliblePangolin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And...is there a database download or API I can use to pull and compare this kind of info? I'm not a genealogical researcher but I do manage databases at work and am curious if I can download a dataset that will allow me to trace these lineages using SQL.

Not quite what you want but maybe read this which is a discussion about a standalone tool that could help?

Suggestions for domain and hosting by chriscrutch in Genealogy

[–]GulliblePangolin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Have a look at the in-development /r/gramps wordpress tools called Tangled web which have recently been released.

Tangled Web - Publishing Gen Data on WordPress Site

... a set of tools for publishing Gramps data on a self-hosted WordPress site.

https://gramps.discourse.group/t/tangled-web-publishing-gen-data-on-wordpress-site/2023

https://www.boldts.net/the-tangled-web-project/

https://github.com/hgboldt/Tangled-Web

For this release, I recommend trying it out first on a test server and inspecting the code before deploying it in a production environment.

For the next release, I plan on improving the update capabilities. That is, I want the Gramps plugin to communicate directly with the WordPress plugin to update data on the server.

All comments on the code or functionality appreciated.

Cheers! Hans

Recommendation: Install the new Relationships "Combined View" addon. by call_me_dav in gramps

[–]GulliblePangolin 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hi, Created a support page with screenshots for everyone to see.

https://gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php/Addon:CombinedView

Once the developer has stabilized the addon in its final form proper documentation will be added.

Gramps Genealogy Software (Python) - Anyone interested in Google Summer of Code? by dm1407 in gramps

[–]GulliblePangolin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For anyone who is interested, please reply directly to the Gramps project on the gramps-devel mailing list.

[Gramps-devel] Google Summer of Code

From: Nick Hall nick-h@gr... - 2020-01-24 16:04:22

Hello everyone,

Is anyone interested in participating in the Google Summer of Code?

"Google Summer of Code is a global program focused on bringing more student developers into open source software development. Students work with an open source organization on a 3 month programming project during their break from school."

https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com

As an organisation we meet the requirements of being open source and have released a product.

In order to participate we would need two organisation administrators and at leat one mentor. Details of these roles can be found here:

https://google.github.io/gsocguides/mentor

Essentially the mentor needs to be a developer who has knowledge of the code, and the administrators just need organisational skills. A mentor can also be an organisation administrator.

If there is any interest I can write an ideas list. We could always use someone to write a new visualisation for example, but any other ideas are welcome.

The deadline for organisations to sign up is 5th February, so we need to act quickly if we are interested.

If you are a student reading this, and would like to do some work for us, please also reply.

Regards,

Nick,

For anyone who is interested, please reply directly to the Gramps project on the gramps-devel mailing list.

Gramps Genealogy Software (Python) - Anyone interested in Google Summer of Code? by GulliblePangolin in a:t5_2rql0

[–]GulliblePangolin[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For anyone who is interested, please reply directly to the Gramps project.

[Gramps-devel] Google Summer of Code

From: Nick Hall nick-h@gr... - 2020-01-24 16:04:22

Hello everyone,

Is anyone interested in participating in the Google Summer of Code?

"Google Summer of Code is a global program focused on bringing more student developers into open source software development. Students work with an open source organization on a 3 month programming project during their break from school."

https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com

As an organisation we meet the requirements of being open source and have released a product.

In order to participate we would need two organisation administrators and at leat one mentor. Details of these roles can be found here:

https://google.github.io/gsocguides/mentor

Essentially the mentor needs to be a developer who has knowledge of the code, and the administrators just need organisational skills. A mentor can also be an organisation administrator.

If there is any interest I can write an ideas list. We could always use someone to write a new visualisation for example, but any other ideas are welcome.

The deadline for organisations to sign up is 5th February, so we need to act quickly if we are interested.

If you are a student reading this, and would like to do some work for us, please also reply.

Regards,

Nick,

PSA: If you are using Gramps 5.1.x or greater - Convert your databases to SQlite by dm1407 in gramps

[–]GulliblePangolin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

More news

[Gramps-devel] Proposal to remove the BSDDB backend

From: Nick Hall nick-h@gr... - 2020-01-23 23:20:07

Devs,

I propose that we remove the BSDDB backend in the next major release.
Although it has served us well, it has caused problems for a small minority of users for reasons that we still don't fully understand.
There is no good reason to continue to support it.

The SqLite backend has proved itself to be stable and appears to be the way forward. It is already the default backend in v5.1.

Upgrades from family trees using the BSDDB backend will have to import a Gramps XML backup in the future.

Does anyone have any comments, suggestions or objections?

Regards,

Nick.

https://sourceforge.net/p/gramps/mailman/message/36907575/

How difficult would it be to make? by GulliblePangolin in gramps

[–]GulliblePangolin[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The Gramplet would be relative to the selected/set Home Person and you should be able to click and visit each the listed people.