Genealogy research with Gramps

Posted Jul 17, 2014 20:23 UTC (Thu) by idupree (guest, #71169)
In reply to: Genealogy research with Gramps by VPeric
Parent article: Genealogy research with Gramps

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.