Gramps (software)

Gramps is a widely used offline genealogy software suite. Its features include: • Support for multiple languages and cultural contexts, including patronymic, matronymic, and multiple surname systems. • Full Unicode compatibility. • Relationship calculators, which accommodate language-specific relationship terminologies that lack direct translations in other languages. • The ability to generate reports in various formats, such as .odt, LaTeX, .pdf, .rtf, .html, and .txt. • Tools for creating a wide range of reports and charts, including relationship graphs of large, complex acyclic charts. • Extendability through more than 10 types of plugins. These plugins include Gramplets and Views; Gramplets provide dynamic or interactive views of data within the main Gramps interface. • An event-centric documentation approach, similar to the CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model used by many cultural heritage institutions. • A "sanity check" feature that flags improbable events, such as births involving individuals at unlikely ages. • Support for multiple calendar systems, including Gregorian, Julian, and Islamic calendars. • Comprehensive programmer's API documentation, with free and open-source code made publicly available == File format ==

The 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, and its files are usually compressed using gzip. 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. Users 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. Gramps can import from the following formats: 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, Web Family Tree (.WFT) format, vCard, vCalendar, CSV. Programs that support Gramps XML • Gramps Web is a collaborative web app built on the core of Gramps itself and supports Gramps XML import and export • Betty by Bart Feenstra generates static websites from Gramps XML and Gramps XML Package files as alternatives to GEDCOM. • PhpGedView (version 4.1 and up) supports output to Gramps XML. • The Gramps PHP component JoomlaGen for Joomla uses an upload of the GRAMPS XML database export to show genealogical information and overviews. JoomlaGen is compatible with GRAMPS 3.3.0. • 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 45 languages (As of December 2014). Gramps has two special-use sub-translation languages: • Animal pedigree which allows to keep track of the pedigree and breed of animals • Same gender/sex which gives the option of removing gender-biased verbiage from reports. == Release history ==

The project began as GRAMPS in 2001, and the first stable release was in 2004. 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.) • Full history of previous releases. == References ==