Gramps (software)

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Gramps
Original author(s) Don Allingham [1] [2]
Developer(s) The Gramps Team [3]
Initial releaseApril 21, 2001;22 years ago (2001-04-21) [4]
Stable release
5.2.0 [5]   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg / 23 February 2024
Repository
Written in Python (GTK+ 3)
Operating system Linux, BSD, Solaris, Windows, macOS [6]
Platform GTK+ 3
Available in Multilingual (40) [7]
Type Genealogy software
License GPL-2.0-or-later [8]
Website gramps-project.org

Gramps (formerly GRAMPS, an acronym for Genealogical Research and Analysis Management Programming System) [2] is a free and open-source genealogy software. [9] Gramps is programmed in Python using PyGObject. It uses Graphviz to create relationship graphs.

Contents

Gramps is an example of commons-based peer production [10] as free and open-source software created by genealogists, for genealogists. [10] [11]

The program is extensible such that, in addition to human family trees, it has been used to create animal pedigree charts [12] as well as academic genealogy showing mentoring relationships between scientists, physicians, and scholars. [13]

Features

Gramps is one of the biggest offline genealogy suites available. [14] Features include:

File format

Gramps XML [22]
Filename extension
.gramps
Internet media type
application/x-gramps-xml [23]
Developed byGramps
Initial release2004;20 years ago (2004)
Latest release
1.7.1
18 August 2015;8 years ago (2015-08-18)
Type of format Genealogy data exchange
Extended from XML
Website gramps-project.org/xml/

Core archival 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. [24] 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. [25]

Gramps can import from the following formats: [26] 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, [27] Web Family Tree (.WFT) format, [28] vCard, vCalendar, CSV.

Programs that support Gramps XML

Languages

Gramps is available in 45 languages [7] [34] (December 2014).

Gramps also has two special-use sub-translation languages:

Release history

The project began as GRAMPS in 2001, and the first stable release was in 2004. [9]

The following table shows a selected history of new feature releases for project. (Patches and bug fixes are published on GitHub and periodically collated in minor "bug fix" releases.) [37] [38] [39]

VersionRelease dateNameComment
GRAMPS 1.0.02004-02-11"Stable as a Tombstone"Used XML to store all information. (Don originally called the program Relativity before his father suggested the name GRAMPS (Genealogical Research and Analysis Management Programming System))
GRAMPS 2.0.02005-05-11"The Bright Side of Life"Introduction of the Berkeley database backend.
GRAMPS 2.0.82005-09-05"Romani ite domum"First port to Macintosh OSX posted to MacPorts.
GRAMPS 2.2.12006-10-30"One, two, five!"Originally only available for Unix-like operating systems, with this release GRAMPS became available for Windows.
GRAMPS 3.0.02008-03-24"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 3.2.02010-04-15"I am your father"Name changed from GRAMPS. New management system for plugins, performance optimization, hierarchical place list, and map plotting view.
Gramps 3.4.02012-05-21"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 4.0.02013-05-21"The Miracle of Birth"Conversion to GTK+ 3, add support for Python 3. Keeps the same data format as Gramps 3.4.
Gramps 4.1.02014-06-18"Name go in book"Full Python 3 support. New place hierarchies model. [40] Different data format to the Gramps 3.4 series.
Gramps 4.2.02015-08-03Python 3 support only (Python 2 support dropped). [41] Different data format to the GRAMPS 3.4 series.
Gramps 5.0.02018-07-24Python 3.2+ only / GTK 3.10+ / BSDDB 3 (Default backend) / SQLite3 (Experimental backend)
Gramps 5.1.02019-08-21Python 3.3+ only / GTK 3.12+ / SQLite3 (Default backend) / BSDDB 3 (Legacy backend)
Gramps 5.2.02024-02-23Python 3.8+ only / GTK 3.24+ / SQLite3 / BSDDB 3 (Read-only for upgrades)

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References

  1. ↑ Allingham, Don (21 April 2006). "Looking Back Over 5 Years". Gramps blog.
  2. 1 2 3 Wayner, Peter (22 April 2004). "From Shared Resources, Your Personal History". The New York Times. New York. Retrieved 11 May 2021. More than a dozen different genealogical database programs are available from a variety of vendors. Hall uses the Genealogical Research and Analysis Management Programming System, or, GRAMPS (http://gramps.sourceforge.net). Like other such software, Gramps – which is free – enables people to enter data about their ancestors and produces charts, documents and Web pages from the information.
  3. ↑ "Contributors". Github.
  4. ↑ "History of Gramps". Gramps Wiki.
  5. ↑ "v5.2.0 Latest". 23 February 2024.
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  7. 1 2 "Gramps translations". Gramps Wiki.
  8. ↑ "Project License - Gramps". Archived from the original on 20 January 2021. Retrieved 21 June 2021.
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  12. ↑ "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
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  17. ↑ Marik, Radek (2006). On Large Genealogical Graph Layouts (PDF). ITAT 2016 Proceedings, CEUR Workshop Proceedings. Vol. 1649. pp. 218–225. Retrieved 11 May 2021.
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  19. ↑ 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.
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  23. ↑ "Generate XML". Gramps Wiki.
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  25. ↑ "Database Formats". Gramps wiki. Retrieved 16 November 2019.
  26. ↑ "Import from another program". Gramps wiki.
  27. ↑ "The GW format". GeneWeb. Archived from the original on 2 December 2008. Retrieved 11 February 2009.
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  31. ↑ 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
  32. ↑ "JoomlaGen". SourceForge. 22 June 2014.
  33. ↑ Jessel, Anne. "tmg2gramps". tmg2gramps. Coherent Software Australia Pty Ltd. Archived from the original on 1 March 2021. Retrieved 11 May 2021.
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  35. ↑ Animal pedigree, Gramps Wiki
  36. ↑ 0003346: Same gender relationship reports Gramps Bugtracker
  37. 1 2 Releases · gramps-project/gramps, GitHub
  38. 1 2 gramps-announce - SourceForge.net
  39. ↑ Gramps (software) on SourceForge
  40. ↑ "Place hierarchies". Gramps 4.1 Wiki Manual - What's new?.
  41. ↑ "Enhanced Place Editor and new Place Name editor and added PlaceNames (with Date and Language) Place". Gramps 4.2 Wiki Manual - What's new?.
  42. ↑ "Previous releases of Gramps". Gramps Wiki.

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