Gramps (software)
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Original author(s) | Don Allingham |
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Developer(s) | The GRAMPS Team |
Initial release | 2001/04/21[1] |
Stable release | 3.1.2
/ June 6, 2009 |
Preview release | Through SVN
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Written in | Python |
Operating system | Linux, BSD, Solaris, Windows, Mac OS X[2] |
Available in | Multilingual (22) |
Type | Genealogy software |
License | GNU General Public License |
Website | http://www.gramps-project.org/ |
GRAMPS, an acronym for Genealogical Research and Analysis Management Programming System, is free genealogy software. GRAMPS is programmed in Python using PyGTK. It uses Graphviz to create relationship graphs.
Features
- Supports multiple languages and cultures.[3]
- Full Unicode support.
- Relationship calculators.[4]
- Generates reports in multiple formats, including .odt, LaTeX, .pdf, .rtf, .html, and .txt.
File format
Filename extension |
.gramps |
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Internet media type |
application/x-gramps-xml[5] |
Developed by | GRAMPS |
Type of format | Genealogy data exchange |
Extended from | 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 usually compresses GRAMPS XML files with gzip.[6] 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:[7] GRAMPS XML, GRAMPS Package (Portable GRAMPS XML), GRAMPS 2.x .grdb (older versions GRAMPS), GEDCOM, CSV.
GRAMPS supports exporting data in the following formats: GEDCOM, GeneWeb's GW format[8], Web Family Tree (.WFT) format [9], vCard, vCalendar, CSV.
Programs that support GRAMPS XML
- PhpGedView (version 4.1 and up) supports[10] output to GRAMPS XML.
- GrampsXMLview - uses PHP to display the contents of a GRAMPS XML on your website.
- The script tmg2gramps by Anne Jessel converts The Master Genealogist v6 genealogy software datafile to a GRAMPS v2.2.6 XML.
Languages
GRAMPS is available in the following languages:[11] Brazilian Portuguese, Catalan, Chinese (Simplified), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish and Swedish.
History
Selected release history[12]:
- 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".
References
- ^ "GRAMPS officially started April 21, 2001." - History of GRAMPS - GRAMPS Wiki
- ^ Installation - GRAMPS
- ^ Features - GRAMPS
- ^ Relationship Calculator - GRAMPS
- ^ Generate XML - Why doesn't GRAMPS just use a .gz extension? - GRAMPS
- ^ How to make a backup - GRAMPS
- ^ Import from another program - GRAMPS
- ^ GeneWeb - The GW format
- ^ 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
- ^ GRAMPS translations - Wiki
- ^ gramps-announce - SourceForge.net
External links
- GRAMPS project page
- GRAMPS user manual
- GRAMPS database formats
- File format information: http://www.gramps-project.org/xml/ – RDDL directories (with RELAX NG and DTD) for GRAMPS XML
- Gramps (software) on SourceForge
- GRAMPS for Windows
- Reviews on GRAMPS
This article contains text from the GNU GPL GRAMPS Manual V2.9.