[Gramps-users] Address lists

[Greg K. <gr...@ma...>]

Another Gramps facility that could be very useful in principle, but needs
some improvement in practice, is current addresses.  Here are some of
the issues:

1) Addresses are handled separately from event locations, which is
unfortunate.  Typically an entire family has the same current address,
but the address editor doesn't recognize that.  If you gave the same
address to many relatives and the family moved, you'd have to change
the records separately.

2) The input form lists Country before Postal Code.  But paper mail
addresses put the postal code first, because the format depends on the
country.  I probably switched them by mistake for several addresses that
I put into Gramps.

3) I would really like to view, print, and/or export a list of living
relatives with addresses.  It would make a convenient addition to
my address book, and I could also use it to see which relatives have
missing or bad addresses in my Gramps file.  It looks like even the
"complete individual information" report omits addresses.

Actually for an address book, the best would be to collate by address.

4) There is no documented place to put an e-mail address.  The natural
place is under "Internet", where an e-mail address can be entered as a
"mailto:".  But this is far from obvious.  As with paper mail addresses,
there is no simple way to collate these.

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