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![]() Screenshot of Gramps (v. 5.0.1) with its fan chart and the Given name cloud gramplet on the bottom. | |
Original author(s) | Don Allingham[1][2] |
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Developer(s) | The Gramps Team[3] |
Initial release | April 21, 2001[4] |
Stable release | 5.2.2[5] ![]() |
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Written in | Python (GTK+ 3) |
Operating system | Linux, BSD, Solaris, Windows, macOS[6] |
Platform | GTK+ 3 |
Available in | Multilingual (40) name="G.translations"/> |
Type | Genealogy software |
License | GPL-2.0-or-later[7] |
Website | gramps-project |
Gramps (formerly GRAMPS, an acronym for Genealogical Research and Analysis Management Programming System)[2] is a free and open-source genealogy software.[8] Gramps is programmed in Python using PyGObject, and uses Graphviz to create relationship graphs.
Gramps is an example of commons-based peer production[9] as free and open-source software created by genealogists, for genealogists.[9][10]
In addition to human family trees, the program has also been used to create animal pedigree charts[11] as well as academic genealogy showing mentoring relationships between scientists, physicians, and scholars.[12]
Gramps is one of the biggest offline genealogy suites available.[13] Features include:
Filename extension |
.gramps |
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Internet media type |
application/x-gramps-xml[22] |
Developed by | Gramps |
Initial release | 2004 |
Latest release | 1.7.1 18 August 2015 |
Type of format | Genealogy data exchange |
Extended from | XML |
Website | gramps-project |
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 are usually compressed using gzip.[23] 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.[24]
Gramps can import from the following formats:[25] 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,[26] Web Family Tree (.WFT) format,[27] vCard, vCalendar, CSV.
Gramps is available in 45 languages[33][34] (December 2014).
Gramps also has two special-use sub-translation languages:
The project began as GRAMPS in 2001, and the first stable release was in 2004.[8]
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]
Version | Release date | Name | Comment |
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GRAMPS 1.0.0 | 2004-02-11 | "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 2.0.0 | 2005-05-11 | "The Bright Side of Life" | Introduction of the Berkeley database backend. |
GRAMPS 2.0.8 | 2005-09-05 | "Romani ite domum" | First port to Macintosh OSX posted to MacPorts. |
GRAMPS 2.2.1 | 2006-10-30 | "One, two, five!" | Originally only available for Unix-like operating systems, with this release GRAMPS became available for Windows. |
GRAMPS 3.0.0 | 2008-03-24 | "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 3.2.0 | 2010-04-15 | "I am your father" | Name changed from GRAMPS. New management system for plugins, performance optimization, hierarchical place list, and map plotting view. |
Gramps 3.4.0 | 2012-05-21 | "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 4.0.0 | 2013-05-21 | "The Miracle of Birth" | Conversion to GTK+ 3, add support for Python 3. Keeps the same data format as Gramps 3.4. |
Gramps 4.1.0 | 2014-06-18 | "Name go in book" | Full Python 3 support. New place hierarchies model.[40] Different data format to the Gramps 3.4 series. |
Gramps 4.2.0 | 2015-08-03 | Python 3 support only (Python 2 support dropped).[41] Different data format to the GRAMPS 3.4 series. | |
Gramps 5.0.0 | 2018-07-24 | Python 3.2+ only / GTK 3.10+ / BSDDB 3 (Default backend) / SQLite3 (Experimental backend) | |
Gramps 5.1.0 | 2019-08-21 | Python 3.3+ only / GTK 3.12+ / SQLite3 (Default backend) / BSDDB 3 (Legacy backend) | |
Gramps 5.2.0 | 2024-02-23 | Python 3.8+ only / GTK 3.24+ / SQLite3 / BSDDB 3 (Read-only for upgrades) |