Re: [Gramps-users] GRAMPS tip-of-the-day

[Leonid M. <le...@le...>]

Dear Frederick Noronha,

Once you wrote about "[Gramps-users] GRAMPS tip-of-the-day":
> Below is the second installment of proposed TipsOfTheDay. Your feedback 
> and comments are welcome. The first lot, reworked, is at the bottom. FN

Great work! :)

> ASKING RELATIVES BEFORE IT IS TO LATE: Your oldest relatives could be your
> most important source of information. They usually know things about the
> family that hasn't been writen down. They might tell you nuggest about
> people, the information about whom might one day be reduced to numbers. We
> often wonder why we didn't write down pieces of information that grandfather
> told us while we were young. Don't wait till it's too late... Tip from
> fro...@sk...

Wow, even a non-technical tip - great! :)

> THE PEOPLE VIEW: The People view throws up a list of all individuals in the
> database. You can sort the listing simply by clicking on numerous headings
> such as name, gender, birth date or death date.

Double-clicking will sort in the reverse order.  I think we should
mention it.

> IMPROVING GRAMPS: Users are entitled to request enhancements to GRAMPS. 
> Requesting an enhancement can be done either through the gramps-users or
> gramps-devel mailing lists, or by creating a Request for Enhancement (RFE).
> The last is preferred.

I think we should point users to the site here, or mention that they can
use menu item Help->GRAMP home page.

> WHO'S THE OLDEST OF US ALL? You can find out a lot of statistical
> information about your entire family, using the Tools > Utilities > Verify
> the database facility. For instance, what was the maximum age of any
> individual in the family? Or the largest husband-wife age difference. Or the
> minimum age at which anyone in your family ever married. Or even the minimum
> age at which a woman bore a child.

Cool, I didn't know that. :)

It would be great if Gramps could show relevant people easily.  Creating
a filter is possible, I get, but that's a lot of clicks.

> TOTD compiled around mid-September, 2004
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> TIPS OF THE DAY: GRAMPS's development version has the option of popping up a
> window with the tip of the day about the use of GRAMPS. The tip is chosen
> randomly from the pool of tips. To add your own tip, send it in to
> xx...@xx...xx

Is this right? :)


I would also like to add the recent discovery with selecting preferred
name, thanks to Alex :)

CHANGING PREFERRED NAME: If a person has several names, it is very easy
to manage these names in Gramps.  Find the person in the Family view,
double-click on the record, and open Names tab.  You can add different
types of names here, like Married Name, Birth Name, etc.  Selecting a
preferred name is just a matter of right-clicking on the name and
choosing the only item in the menu.

-- 
 Leonid Mamchenkov.
 http://mamchenkov.net