Thank you! I'm making a tutorial blog post based on this video (I referenced source in post). Gramps is quite confusing to figure out at least initially.

Too complicated.

I love your videos for your calm voice, you not talking about not related things but just exactly what the video is all about and you nicely structuring things. It's professional video tutorial. Thank you.

I have watched the first six minutes of this video and can only say your approach is bizarre and completely unhelpful to the average user. I have a GEDCOM I made using Ancestris and now am considering editing it further with GRAMPS. Do you say how to manipulate a family tree in the basic ways, adding people etc? No. You first tell us something about a gramplet for age statistics. Who on earth uses that? Maybe a few academic human geographers certainly not genealogists. Then you go on to classify three people as 'mariners'. Again, not something most people will be interested in doing and certainly not in the way you do it. What you should do is open a chart and show how to add people, events, dates etc. That is the basics and what people want to know. Or else you should show people how to make a chart from scratch. But messing around showing ersatz features of the program is not an overview for beginners!

How do I include the birth and death places on a pedigree report (Chart)

I would really like to include the birthplaces and deathplaces on my printed family tree. I know it would make a larger graph but I have access to plotter. Also, my family tree goes back 19 generations (to the early 1400's) but it looks like Gramps will only allow 15 generations in a printed report. Any help would appreciated; if Gramps won't allow this do you know of a different program that might??? Thanks, I really appreciate your videos and help.

Thanks for the tips when adding details, very useful.

Gramps looks primitive compared to Rootsmagic.

I'm stuck - can't get back into my tree that I spent all day doing - When I click to open the tree I get a message stating i need to force unlock ??? I'm not an IT expert and cannot find any useful info on how to do this - Also when it's eventually solved, how do I stop this ridiculous thing from happening again anyway - I don't need the program to lock itself ever

Is anyone able to tell how to force unlock ? please ? I've googled and just got nothing to help on google

Do we have to begin with repository and all that ? I've not used Gramps before and at the moment just need to know how to begin a tree - how to start adding people ??

Dear Richard, just a note of thanks for posting this. I like your methodology and starting with repositories, sources and citations and structuring places properly. If you just jump in and create people you end up with a mess so seeing the structure properly helps tremendously. I also like your method of a mini website on your mobile device. Great idea. Again, thanks for the effort, it is really appreciated.

How do you correct mistakes? For example you've discovered your line is following an uncle (brother of your true line). What's a good way to make your changes? Thanks.

This tutorial is meant for people who have already done some work in this field. I wish someone could just give us a completely beginner focused tutorial using this program. Adding yourself and a sibling for starters.

Thank you Richard for making this video. Well done! I noticed that when you were adding People, you kept placing the surname in the Prefix field. Will such a practice ever create issues later on?

excellent excellent excellent. thank you so much for taking the time and effort for making some very useful tutorials and to such a high standard. Keep up the good work!

Richard, I was just enjoying your GRAMPS videos, when I was surprised to see your mention of a certain town and certain surname. I am researching a combination of the two! I cannot see how to send you a Private Message though. Can you PM me?

Thank you for this. It was very helpful for someone new to this software.

I really like the way you handle addresses; I would never have thought of that! Have learnt so much watching these three videos. Thank you very much indeed, Richard.

This was so useful. Thank you.

11:28 Why do you use Residence events instead of Census events?

1:13 Gramps has a *Copy* tree feature under "Manage Family Trees". Click that and your tree is automatically copied into a newly-created tree.

Learning how to use the clipboard makes it all worthwhile.

Very helpful. I hope the other videos go deeper into Citations. But, 18:11 is misleading enough to be outright wrong. Right under "Export..." is "Make Backup...". In fact, "Make Backup..." is just "Export... the whole tree to gramps' XML format" .

Thanks for review!

So far on this method with a new 4.1.3 on Windows I have found when generating a narrated website, it is looking for the title to sort the the places.htm page and so is not listed alphabetically.

I'm using 4.1.3 and can't get it to auto fill locations like you show on video. Is there an option that turns that feature on? Great Video, Starting over using what you showed.

Richard, I would like to thank you for these videos on getting started with Gramps, I have wanted to switch over for a while and have never really understood all the 'components', these guides are worth watching! I tried importing my gedcom from FTM3, but the learning curve on setting it up (ie. converting) is too steep, so I am biting the bullet and starting from scratch! I was daunted, but I am now looking forward to it, thank you!

How do you differentiate between birth name and married name for an individual?

Thanks for the tutorial

Glad to see someone doing videos on Gramps