Genealogy research with Gramps

Posted Jul 17, 2014 12:53 UTC (Thu) by VPeric (guest, #74293)
In reply to: Genealogy research with Gramps by idupree
Parent article: Genealogy research with Gramps

In Gramps 4.1, the family view is by default labeled as "Father/partner1" and "Mother/partner2", specifically to support same-sex families. Multiple person families aren't supported, though - you could create several families I guess. You can also just have separate families (in a genealogical sense) and note using Address events that they lived together in a given time period.

You are also right about the genders, there's a GEP about it, but no final solution has been reached/programmed. I invite you to participate, in the discussion at least:

https://www.gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php?title=GEPS_...
https://gramps-project.org/bugs/view.php?id=5730

Genealogy research with Gramps

Posted Jul 17, 2014 20:23 UTC (Thu) by idupree (guest, #71169) [Link]

Oh excellent! Is one of the mailing-lists or IRC good, or a comment on #5730?

I looked for for the ability to add arbitrary parent-child relationships directly, without going to the Families tab first to turn someone into a potential parent. It seemed complicated to me to need a Family for that: although I see how it makes entering data much simpler for people who marry, have several children, and don't remarry.

In creating a family (now using Gramps 4.1.0), I was able to add anyone to a family but first had to check "Show all" and then click a "▸" to show people (clicking "show all" is not necessary if the people are the "correct" gender).

I tried making a time loop (A begets B begets C begets A)... and Gramps threw an exception! It should probably handle this more gracefully (either allow it or say "sorry, not supported") (Some discussion on whether this can happen in real life.) So I filed a bug report.