Research, organize and share your family tree with Gramps. Gramps is a free software project and community. We strive to produce 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.
Why Use Gramps? Most genealogy programs allow you to enter information about your ancestors and descendants. Typically, they can display family relationships through charts, graphs, or reports. Some allow you to include pictures or other media. Most let you include information about people even if those people are not related to the primary family you happen to be researching. And they may include features that let you exchange data with other programs and print different types of reports. Gramps has all these capabilities and more. Notably, it allows you to integrate bits and pieces of data as they arise from your research and to put them in one place -- your computer. You can then use your computer to manipulate, correlate, and analyze your data, rather than messing with reams of paper.
Below is a summary of how Gramps helps you organize and analyze your family history.
SCREENSHOTS
Relationship
Dashboard
Displays different general purpose Gramplets, small widgets that can help in your genealogical research.
Display a family of parents, grandparents and children with the birth/death dates and relationships. Navigate to nearby relatives with a single click. Families
People
Displays the people in the family tree without their connections. This Category contains the PeopleListView and the Grouped PeopleTreeView. Filter the display using preset filters or a custom filter.
List all families in a single view. Double-click on each to edit, add notes, and to see parents and children in each family.
Charts - Pedigree
Charts - Fan Chart
Display the family in the traditional pedigree view. Hold the mouse over individuals to see more information about them and to move to more distant parts of the tree Charts - Descendant Fan Chart
Displays graphical trees for the selected person Event
Displays graphical trees for the selected person.
Displays the events in the family tree in a single view. Double-click on each to edit, add source, and to see which individuals reference the event.
Place
Geography
Displays the places in the family tree and sort the list by half a dozen headings such as City, County or State.
Displays data of your family tree on a map.
Source
Citations
Displays the sources in the family tree in a single view. Double-click on each to edit, add notes, and to see which individuals reference the source.
Displays the citations in the family tree.
Repository
Media
List all source repositories in a single view. Doubleclick on each to edit, add notes, and to see which sources reference the repository. Notes
List all forms of media referenced in the family tree. Can be graphic images, videos, sound clips, spreadsheets, documents, etc.
Displays the notes in the family tree.