[PLUG] Gramps

[Brian Derr]

If you want a web-based project check out PhpGedView (
http://phpgedview.sf.net). I've been using it for years personally and it
has worked well. Being web-based it makes collaboration with family and
friends easier.

bd

On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 7:16 AM, Larry Brigman <larry.brigman at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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