# GRAMPS Manual V&manrevision;

2001
Donald N. Allingham
2003-2004
Alex Roitman
GRAMPS Project

&legal;

Alex
Roitman
GRAMPS Project

     shura@alex.neuro.umn.edu

Donald N.
Allingham
GRAMPS Project

     dallingham@users.sourceforge.net

GRAMPS Manual V&manrevision;
&date;

Alex Roitman shura@alex.neuro.umn.edu

GRAMPS Project

GRAMPS Manual V2.5
February 2004

Alex Roitman shura@alex.neuro.umn.edu

GRAMPS Project

GRAMPS Manual V2.4
December 2003

Alex Roitman shura@alex.neuro.umn.edu

GRAMPS Project

GRAMPS Manual V2.3
September 2003

Alex Roitman shura@alex.neuro.umn.edu

GRAMPS Project

GRAMPS Manual V2.2
July 2003

Alex Roitman shura@alex.neuro.umn.edu

Donald A. Peterson dpeterson@sigmaxi.org

GRAMPS Project

GRAMPS Manual V2.1
May 2003

Alex Roitman shura@alex.neuro.umn.edu

GRAMPS Project

GRAMPS Manual V2.0
April 2003

Alex Roitman shura@alex.neuro.umn.edu

GRAMPS Project

GRAMPS User Manual V1.1
2001

Donald N. Allingham dallingham@users.sourceforge.net

GRAMPS Project

gramps User Manual V1.0
2001

Donald N. Allingham dallingham@users.sourceforge.net

GRAMPS Project

This manual describes version &appversion; of GRAMPS.

## Feedback

To report a bug or make a suggestion regarding the &app; application or this manual, follow the directions in the GNOME Feedback Page.

## Introduction

&app; is a genealogical application. &app; is an acronym for the Genealogical Research and Analysis Management Programming System. To put it shortly, it allows you to store, edit, and research genealogical data using your computer. Its functionality is somewhat common to other genealogical programs. However, &app; offers some unique features.

### Why GRAMPS?

&app; was conceived under the concept that most genealogy programs were designed to provide the researcher the capability to input information related to a particular family tree. Most of these programs have allowed for the arranging and storing of information consistent with the GEDCOM standards. They usually provide means for displaying descendant or ancestral relationships by means of graphical displays, charts, or reports. These may be augmented with pictures or other media to enhance the data. Most provide for inputting data on unconnected individuals/families that may or may not have a relationship to the primary surname being researched. Various other enhancements may also be provided in the genealogical program that allows for different degrees of importing and exporting data from other programs and printing the data contained in the various reports.

&app;, on the other hand, attempts to provide all of the common capabilities of these programs, but, more importantly, to provide an additional capability of integration not common to these programs. This is the ability to input any bits and pieces of information directly into &app; and rearrange/manipulate any/all data events in the entire data base (in any order or sequence) to assist the user in doing research, analysis and correlation with the potential of filling relationship gaps. In short, it is a tool that provides a way to input all your research into one place and do your analysis and correlation using the speed, power, and accuracy of your computer instead of pencils and unmanageable reams of paper.

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## Known Bugs and Limitations

Currently, &app; loads all data into memory, which tends to bog down the system for large databases (over 15000 people for a typical system). This will be addressed with the 1.2 release by incorporating a database backend. The database backend should dramatically improve both speed and memory usage.

## About GRAMPS

&app; was written by Donald N. Allingham (dallingham@users.sourceforge.net). To find more information about &app;, please visit the GRAMPS Project Web page.

To report a bug or make a suggestion regarding this application or this manual, use the help menu in &app;, or follow the directions in this document.

This program is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public license as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. A copy of this license can be found at this link, or in the file COPYING included with the source code of this program.

## Appendices

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