Gramps (formerly GRAMPS, an acronym for Genealogical Research and Analysis Management Programming System)[2] is a free and open source genealogy software.[10] Gramps is programmed in Python using PyGObject. It uses Graphviz to create relationship graphs.
Original author(s) | Don Allingham[1][2] |
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Developer(s) | The Gramps Team[3] |
Initial release | April 21, 2001[4] |
Stable release | |
Repository | |
Written in | Python (GTK+ 3) |
Operating system | Linux, BSD, Solaris, Windows, OS X[8] |
Platform | GTK+ 3 |
Available in | Multilingual (40)[9] |
Type | Genealogy software |
License | GNU General Public License |
Website | gramps-project |
Within the genealogy community, and within genealogy software specifically, Gramps has been noted as an uncommon example of commons-based peer production,[11] as free and open-source software created by genealogists, for genealogists.[11][12] It has been described as intuitive[12] and easy-to-use[13] for hobbyists and "feature-complete for professional genealogists".[12] The program is acknowledged as "most popular FOSS program for genealogy" by Eastman[12] and others.[13] The Australian consumer advocacy group, CHOICE, has recommended Gramps.[14][15]
The program is extensible such that, in addition to human family trees, it has been used to create animal pedigree charts[16] as well as academic genealogy showing mentoring relationships between scientists, physicians, and scholars.[17]
Features
Gramps is one of the biggest offline genealogy suites available.[18] Features include:
- Supports multiple languages and cultures,[19] including patronymic, matronymic, and multiple surname systems.
- Full Unicode support.
- Relationship calculators.[20] Some languages have relationship terminology with no proper translation to other languages. Gramps deals with this by allowing for language specific relationship calculators.
- Generates reports in multiple formats, including .odt, LaTeX, .pdf, .rtf, .html, and .txt.
- Produces a wide variety of reports and charts, including relationship graphs that of large complex acyclic charts.[21]
- Gramps is easily extended via plugins called Gramplets. A Gramplet is a view of data that either changes dynamically during the running of Gramps, or provides interactivity to your genealogical data.[22]
- Gramps employs an explicit event-centric documentation approach, similar to the CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model used by many cultural heritage institutions.[23]
- "Sanity check" flagging of improbable events, such as births involving people extremely young or old.[2]
- Support for multiple calendars, e.g. Gregorian calendar, Julian calendar, Islamic calendar, etc... [24]
File format
Filename extension | .gramps |
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Internet media type | application/x-gramps-xml [26] |
Developed by | Gramps |
Initial release | 2004 |
Latest release | 1.7.1 (18 August 2015 ) |
Type of format | Genealogy data exchange |
Extended from | XML |
Website | gramps-project.org/xml/ |
Filename extension | .gpkg |
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Type code | .tar.gz archive |
Developed by | Gramps |
Type of format | Genealogy data exchange |
Container for | Gramps XML and referenced media |
The core export file format of Gramps is named Gramps XML and uses the file extension .gramps. It is extended from XML. Gramps XML is a free format. Gramps usually compresses Gramps XML files with gzip.[27] The file format Portable Gramps XML Package uses the extension .gpkg and is currently a .tar.gz archive including Gramps XML together with all referenced media. The user may rename the file extension .gramps to .gz for editing the content of the genealogy document with a text editor. Internally, Gramps uses SQLite as the default database backend, with other databases available as plugins.[28]
Gramps can import from the following formats:[29] Gramps XML, Gramps Package (Portable Gramps XML), Gramps 2.x .grdb (older versions Gramps), GEDCOM, CSV.
Gramps supports exporting data in the following formats: Gramps XML, Gramps Package (Portable Gramps XML), GEDCOM, GeneWeb's GW format,[30] Web Family Tree (.WFT) format,[31] vCard, vCalendar, CSV.
Programs that support Gramps XML
- PhpGedView (version 4.1 and up) supports[32] output to Gramps XML.
- The script tmg2gramps by Anne Jessel converts The Master Genealogist v6 genealogy software datafile to a Gramps v2.2.6 XML.[33]
- The Gramps PHP component JoomlaGen for Joomla uses an upload of the GRAMPS XML database export to show genealogical information and overviews. JoomlaGen is compatible with GRAMPS 3.3.0.[34]
- Betty by Bart Feenstra generates static websites from Gramps XML and Gramps XML Package files.[35]
Languages
Gramps is available in 40 languages[9] (December 2014).
Gramps also has two special use sub-translation languages:
- Animal pedigree which allows to keep track of the pedigree and breed of animals[36]
- Same gender/sex which gives the option of removing gender-based verbiage from reports.[37]
History
The project began as GRAMPS in 2001, and the first stable release was in 2004.[10]
The following table shows a selected history of significant releases for project.
Version | Release date | Name | Comment |
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Gramps 1.0.0 | 2004-02-11 | "Stable as a Tombstone" | Used XML to store all information. |
Gramps 2.0.0 | 2005-05-11 | "The Bright Side of Life" | Introduction of the Berkeley database backend. |
Gramps 2.2.1 | 2006-10-30 | "One, two, five!" | Originally only available for Unix-like operating systems, with this release GRAMPS became available for Windows. |
Gramps 3.0.0 | 2008-03-24 | "It was just getting interesting." | Introduced the new Family Tree database format .gpkg and deprecated the old .grdb database format. Plugin system called "Gramplets". |
Gramps 3.4.0 | 2012-05-21 | "always look on the bright side of life" | Replaced Source References with Citations that allow sharing and can have media objects and 'data' elements attached to them. The Gramps XML Specification was updated to make it idempotent. |
Gramps 4.0.0 | 2013-05-21 | "The Miracle of Birth" | Conversion to GTK+ 3, add support for Python 3. Keeps the same data format as Gramps 3.4. |
Gramps 4.1.0 | 2014-06-18 | "Name go in book" | Full Python 3 support. New place hierarchies model.[38] Different data format to the Gramps 3.4 series. |
Gramps 4.2.0 | 2015-08-03 | Python 3 support only (Python 2 support dropped).[39] Different data format to the GRAMPS 3.4 series. | |
Gramps 5.0.0 | 2018-07-24 | Python 3.2+ only / GTK 3.10+ / BSDDB 3 (Default backend) / SQLite3 (Experimental backend) | |
Gramps 5.1.0 | 2019-08-21 | Python 3.3+ only / GTK 3.12+ / SQLite3 (Default backend) / BSDDB 3 (Legacy backend) |
- Full history of previous releases.[5][6][40]
References
- ^ Allingham, Don (21 April 2006). "Looking Back Over 5 Years". Gramps blog.
- ^ a b c Wayner, Peter (22 April 2004). "From Shared Resources, Your Personal History". The New York Times. New York. Retrieved 11 May 2021.
- ^ "Contributors". Github.
- ^ "History of Gramps". Gramps Wiki.
- ^ a b Releases · gramps-project/gramps, GitHub
- ^ a b gramps-announce - SourceForge.net
- ^ Gramps on SourceForge.net
- ^ "Installation". Gramps wiki.
- ^ a b "Gramps translations". Gramps Wiki.
- ^ a b Peric, Vladimir (16 July 2014). "Genealogy research with Gramps". Linux Weekly News.
- ^ a b Leister, Wolfgang; Christophersen, Nils Damm; Tsiavos, Prodromos; Groven, Arne-Kristian; Heggestøyl, Simen; Rødskog, Daniel; Haaland, Kirsten; Glott, Rüdiger; Tannenberg, Anna; Darbousset-Chong, Xavier (2014). ""INF5780 Compendium Autumn 2014: Open Source, Open Collaboration and Innovation"" (PDF). Norsk Regnesentral. doi:10.13140/2.1.1322.6887. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 May 2021.
- ^ a b c d Eastman, Dick (13 August 2018). "Free and Open-Source (FOSS) Explained". Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter. Archived from the original on 6 August 2020. Retrieved 11 May 2021.
"The most popular FOSS program for genealogy is Gramps [...] Gramps is a free FOSS software project – a genealogy program that is both intuitive for hobbyists and feature-complete for professional genealogists. It is a community project, created, developed and governed by genealogists.
CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link) - ^ a b Cartwright, Ryan (22 December 2006). "Roots access". Free Software Magazine. No. November/December 2006. Tortola: The Open Company Partners, Inc. Archived from [hhttp://fsmsh.com/1588 the original] on 6 July 2017. Retrieved 11 May 2021.
https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.474.8710&rep=rep1&type=pdf
- ^ Page, Ros (2 November 2017). "Family history online services". CHOICE. CHOICE. Archived from the original on 10 May 2021. Retrieved 11 May 2021. CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
- ^ "Who Do They Think They Are?". The Checkout. 23 April 2015. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. ABC TV.
- ^ "Les pedigrees des Dogo Canario" [The Pedigrees of the Canary Island Dog]. Les pedigrees des Dogo Canario. l'Association Francaise du Dogo Canario. 5 March 2010. Archived from the original on 21 October 2010. Retrieved 11 May 2021.
Généré par GRAMPS
- ^ Pecchioli, Yael; Jamieson, Mary Anne (2015). "The North American Society for Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology Fellowship Family Tree". J Pediatr Adolesc Gynecol. doi:10.1016/j.jpag.2014.12.006. PMID 26349446. Retrieved 11 May 2021. CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
- ^ Maddra, C.A.; Hawick, K.A. (April 2016). "Domain Modelling and Language Issues for Family History and Near-Tree Graph Data Applications" (PDF). Int'l Conf. Software Eng. Research and Practice (SERP'16). ISBN 978-1-60132-446-7. Retrieved 11 May 2021.
- ^ "Features". Gramps wiki.
- ^ "Relationship Calculator". Gramps wiki.
- ^ Marik, Radek (2006). On Large Genealogical Graph Layouts (PDF). ITAT 2016 Proceedings, CEUR Workshop Proceedings. 1649. pp. 218–225. Retrieved 11 May 2021.
- ^ "Gramplets". Gramps Wiki.
- ^ Häyrinen, Ari (2008). A Template Based, Event-Centric Documentation Framework (PDF). 2008 Annual Conference of CIDOC. Archived (PDF) from the original on 11 May 2021. CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
- ^ "Gramps". Gizmo's Freeware. Gizmo Richards. 24 January 2017. Archived from the original on 20 October 2020. Retrieved 11 May 2021.
- ^ "Gramps XML". Gramps Wiki.
- ^ "Gramps XML". Gramps Wiki.
- ^ "How to make a backup". Gramps wiki.
- ^ "Database Formats". Gramps wiki. Retrieved 16 November 2019.
- ^ "Import from another program". Gramps wiki.
- ^ "The GW format". GeneWeb. Archived from the original on 2 December 2008. Retrieved 11 February 2009.
- ^ Web Family Tree - simonward.com
- ^ PhpGedView @ Neumont University -
*Clippings Cart (v4.1)
** Add option to zip the GEDCOM/Gramps XML with the associated media files Gramps XML
*Gramps XML (v4.1)
** Add option to download entire GEDCOM in Gramps XML form
** Add option to retrieve raw data from the SOAP web service in Gramps XML format
** Gramps XML export support to include full source and media support
- ^ Jessel, Anne. "tmg2gramps". tmg2gramps. Coherent Software Australia Pty Ltd. Archived from the original on 1 March 2021. Retrieved 11 May 2021. CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
- ^ "JoomlaGen". SourceForge.
- ^ Feenstra, Bart. "betty". betty. Python Package Index. Archived from the original on 27 November 2020. Retrieved 11 May 2021. CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
- ^ Animal pedigree, Gramps Wiki
- ^ 0003346: Same gender relationship reports Gramps Bugtracker
- ^ "Place hierarchies". Gramps 4.1 Wiki Manual - What's new?.
- ^ "Enhanced Place Editor and new Place Name editor and added PlaceNames (with Date and Language) Place". Gramps 4.2 Wiki Manual - What's new?.
- ^ "Previous releases of Gramps". Gramps Wiki.
External links
- Official website
- Gramps wiki site
- Gramps database formats
- Gramps-project on GitHub - Source code
- Gramps on SourceForge.net - Mailing List
- Reviews on Gramps
- Genealogy research with Gramps. LWN.net 2014.
This article contains text from the GNU GPL Gramps Manual V2.9.