![]() And for paying users the program has a built-in gazetteer which is based on a table that lives outside your tree, and which is way more user friendly than ours. I mention RootsMagic because it’s faster than anything else on the market, and very useful when you want to find duplicates in your dataset, for which it has a user interface that is very similar to the one in Gramps, where duplicate persons are ranked, and it is at least 10 times faster than Gramps, and more user friendly. I have loads of old DVD’s and thumb drives with trial versions of commercial software on it, issued by a local association, and I’ve never seen any problem with that way of software distribution. And I see no reason why you shouldn’t be able to distribute that. I often use RootsMagic Essentials to work with this tree, and that program is free. ![]() ![]() When I import this same GEDCOM in PAF, which is what it was made on, I can even view it on an old laptop with Windows 2000 and 64 MB RAM, where it’s faster than on this one in Gramps, with 8 GB. I have bigger ones myself, including one with Charlemagne, and even Lilith, with more than 600,000 people in it, and running check & repair on that is quite a drag, and using the deep connections Gramplet even more. I understand what you’re saying, but in my experience, many genealogists don’t have the latest in hardware, meaning that they may have laptops older than yours or mine, on which Gramps may be quite slow with a dataset this large. The “drop-down” is the most explicit and so best for newbies.) Plus defaulting to Dark Mode would make it look more modern and different for people who might have seen Gramps and have a prejudice. Like using the Themes addon to set an increased point size to at least 12pt for older users, labels enabled on toolbar, a different initial set of Dashboard gramplets, a few extraneous built-in options disabled (Too many Navigator mode choices. Since I’m talking about distributing a ready-to-run variant, then I can add some other tweaks. There have been a number of tweaks to Gramps that will help the absolute novice in 5.2 version. (Given that dataset having about 120,000 persons distributed across more than 140 cemeteries might be too big for some other tools.) But the other thought is that Gramps could be used to filter export subsets. The idea is to share reusable base data that required re-keying nothing. If they cannot use Gramps, users can always import the GEDCOM into another program they prefer. But I don’t know if that was an option with the wide variants of Linux distros. Which is doable with the Win and macOS versions. “ Simply execute” is obviously preferred. Is a multi-platform Gramps distribution a reasonable goal?Īre you expecting them to reboot their computer from the DVD or USB? Or you want something they can simply execute? (Although it is probably worth waiting for GEDCOM7, with its better Place structure.)ĭistributing an operational Gramps database with the data would be more understandable for elder genealogists than just the GEDCOM. Since this is data needed for my Ancestors and is more verified than the online services, I intend to convert the data from Works into a fresh Tree and export a GEDCOM that will be useful to for them to distribute again. ![]() Of course, MS discontinued that suite of tools only a decade later in 2009. ![]() However, they were burned by selecting the MS Works database as the platform. Hopefully using that Works database rather doing redundant work.) (Another person compiled a hardcopy master surname index for that dataset, also in 1999. The CD contains the transcribed data from 16 volumes of booklets published in 1980. In 1999, one of the Historical Societies for the county adjacent to my hometown produced a CD with some 120,000 inscriptions from their county’s 150+ cemeteries. Can a DVD or USB thumbdrive containing genealogical data be created with an operational Gramps (for all 3 OSes: Linux/Windows/macOS) and pointing at the same database table? (Windows GrampsPortable and the macOS being a drag’n’drop install would seem to make those ‘no-brainers’. ![]()
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