From: Doug B. <dou...@gm...> - 2009-11-12 17:56:04
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On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 11:18 AM, Dianne Reuby <pra...@ya...> wrote: > I'm a newbie with GRAMPS, and I'm mainly using it to make sure my > fathers extensive family research isn't lost (he's 86). I'm running it > on Ubuntu. > > The problem I have most is when someone contacts me along the lines of > "our families must be related because Joe Bloggs is your > great-great-grandfather and my great-great-grandfather" > > I can locate him in GRAMPS, but I cant's easily come down the > generations - if he had two or more children, I have to chose one and > work down through each line of each child of each generation. > > At the moment I'm using a machine which isn't up to creating big > reports, though I hope to upgrade soon. Is this the method others use in > that situation? Dianne, In the upcoming version of Gramps, version 3.2, there is a new gramplet addon called "Deep Connections" that allow you to find family connections between two people. It doesn't do exactly what you want, but could help. -Doug > Dianne > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day > trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on > what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with > Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july > _______________________________________________ > Gramps-users mailing list > Gra...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gramps-users > |