GRAMPS

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Original author(s) Don Allingham[1]
Developer(s) The Gramps Team
Initial release April 21, 2001 (2001-04-21)[2]
Stable release 3.3.1[3] / October 1, 2011; 4 months ago (2011-10-01)
Preview release Through SVN
Development status Active
Written in Python
Operating system Linux, BSD, Solaris, Windows, Mac OS X[4]
Available in Multilingual (29)[5]
Type Genealogy software
License GNU General Public License
Website www.gramps-project.org

Gramps (formerly GRAMPS), an acronym for Genealogical Research and Analysis Management Programming System, is Free and open source genealogy software. Gramps is programmed in Python using PyGTK. It uses Graphviz to create relationship graphs.

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[edit] Features

[edit] File format

Gramps XML
Filename extension .gramps
Internet media type application/x-gramps-xml[8]
Developed by Gramps
Type of format Genealogy data exchange
Extended from XML
Portable Gramps XML Package
Filename extension .gpkg
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.[9] 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 Berkeley DB as the working database format.

Gramps can import from the following formats:[10] 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,[11] Web Family Tree (.WFT) format,[12] vCard, vCalendar, CSV.

[edit] Programs that support Gramps XML

[edit] Languages

Gramps is available in the following languages:[14] Brazilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Simplified), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese from Portugal, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish and Swedish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese.

Gramps also has two special use sub-translation languages:

  • Animal pedigree which allows to keep track of the pedigree and breed of animals[15]
  • Same gender/sex which makes using Gramps far more intuitive when dealing with a same gender family.[16]

[edit] History

Selected release history[17]:

  • GRAMPS 1.0.0 "Stable as a Tombstone" released - February 11, 2004 - Used XML to store all information.
  • GRAMPS 2.0.0 "The Bright Side of Life" released - May 5, 2005 - Introduction of the Berkeley database backend.
  • GRAMPS 2.2.1 "One, two, five!" released - October 30, 2006 - Originally only available for Unix-like operating systems, with this release GRAMPS became available for Windows.
  • Gramps 3.0.0 "It was just getting interesting." released - March 24, 2008 - Introduced the new Family Tree database format and deprecated the old .grdb database format. Plugin system called "Gramplets".

[edit] References

  1. ^ Looking Back Over 5 Years, Date:April 21st, 2006 by Don Allingham, Gramps
  2. ^ "GRAMPS officially started April 21, 2001." - History of Gramps - Gramps Wiki
  3. ^ GRAMPS at SourceForge.net
  4. ^ Installation - Gramps
  5. ^ GRAMPS translations, Gramps Wiki
  6. ^ Features - Gramps
  7. ^ Relationship Calculator - Gramps
  8. ^ Generate XML - Why doesn't GRAMPS just use a .gz extension? - Gramps
  9. ^ How to make a backup - Gramps
  10. ^ Import from another program - Gramps
  11. ^ GeneWeb - The GW format
  12. ^ Web Family Tree - simonward.com
  13. ^ 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
  14. ^ Gramps translations - Wiki
  15. ^ Animal pedigree, Gramps Wiki
  16. ^ 0003346: Same gender relationship reports Gramps Bugtracker
  17. ^ gramps-announce - SourceForge.net

[edit] External links

This article contains text from the GNU GPL Gramps Manual V2.9.

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