Re: [Gramps-users] Two questions

[Alex R. <sh...@al...>]

Adam,

On 02/11/2004 02:56:13 PM, Adam Stein wrote:
> I've just installed v1.0.0 and have two questions regarding my
> understanding. I've previously used v0.9.8
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> Both of these questions are based on the fact that I have added my
> grandfather's brother.
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> 1) I've seen that in this version as well as 0.9.8 that there seems =20
> to  be no way to specify siblings.  Obviously, if two or more people =20
> have  the same  parents,  Gramps will know enough that they are =20
> siblings.  In the case of my  grandfather  and his brother, I don't =20
> know the parents names, therefore I have no  way of  connecting them =20
> since I can't setup the fact that they are siblings.  Is there a  way =20
> to do this?

It seems to me that there's no way of specifying siblings other than =20
introducing the parents. If you don't know their names, you have a =20
choice of either leaving them empty (then they would end up in the =20
"Other" tab in the People View), or going with the placeholder of your =20
choice (Unknown, unavailable, <same last name as their kids>, etc.)

> 2) When I select "Reports/View/Summary of the database...", one of =20
> the  things it  tells me is the number of disconnected individuals.  =20
> Since my  grandfather's  brother is not connected to anybody else (no =20
> parents, children, or  spouse  listed), why does the report tell me 0 =20
> disconnected.  It should at  least say 1,  shouldn't it?

This would be a bug, unless the person is indeed connected. If you =20
don't mind sending me a database which demonstrates this bug, I could =20
take a look at that. You could prepare a brand new database with a =20
handful of fake people, if you don't want to share your personal info. =20
Otherwise, you can look at the data.gramps file, which is a very self-=20
explanatory XML (might be gzipped depending on your settings), find =20
that person's entry and look at families it is connected to.

> Thanks for any help.
Adam, can I ask you a favor? If I'm not mistaken, you running gramps on =20
Solaris. If you could add an entry to our wiki page    =20
http://gramps.sourceforge.net/phpwiki/index.php/SystemRequirements
on how to set up gramps with Solaris we (and our users) would greatly =20
appreciate it. If you prefer sending this info to me it would be just =20
as great.

Thanks,
Alex

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