[PLUG] Gramps

Larry Brigman larry.brigman at gmail.com
Wed Jul 16 14:16:43 UTC 2008


On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 6:55 AM, donkyhotay <donkyhotay at verizon.net> wrote:
> I made the transition but it was from Family Tree 5.0 which was released
> in the win95 days so that needs to be taken into consideration. The
> gedcom files transferred over with very little issue. Compared to Family
> Tree 5.0, Gramps is quite an advanced program that works very well. It
> is also the only open source genealogy program I've ever found. If there
> is another one I'd like to know myself because I'm occasionally asked
> about free genealogy programs for use on windows based systems and
> gramps of course doesn't work on windows. Sure the people asking me are
> asking for free (beer) software but I like to refer people to a free
> (speech) software if I can as a way to introduce the concept and
> capabilities of open source software.
>
>
> robinson-west user wrote:
>> In the meantime, I've installed Gramps which looks like it will
>> do if it can import data from Family Tree.  I'm having a hard
>> time selling Gramps to my dad.  It looks like a capable
>> substitute for Family Tree 2008 and it is free.  I don't know
>> if my dad's numerous Gedcom files will import, but that's another
>> matter.  I for one think that open source genealogy software
>> makes a lot of sense.  Why trust family data and vital statistics
>> to something that is closed where the platform it runs on is also
>> closed and losing support?  My dad is complaining that Gramps
>> looks stripped down compared to Family Tree.  Stripped down???
>> Is Gramps the only open source genealogy software worth looking
>> into?  Has anyone migrated from Family Tree to Gramps that can
>> vouch for it?
>>
>>

Well, not free speech but free from cost; use familysearch.org as the
starting point and their software: http://tinyurl.com/6en9jt (
couldn't stand pasting a 530 char url into email).



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