Gramps

Gramps, the open source genealogy program

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Last Update: 2026-05-17

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Gramps is a genealogy program for Linux, Windows, Mac, and FreeBSD that allows you to easily build and keep track of your family tree. It supports the GEDCOM standard, allows fine grained privacy controls and can generate many different types of reports (descendant trees, graphs, connection diagrams, ....)

Features

Genealogy Data Entry
Text Reports
Graphical Reports
Pedigree View
Fan Chart View
Source Tracking
Citations Recording
GEDCOM 5.5.1 Support

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License

GNU General Public License version 2.0 (GPLv2)

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d-george Edited 2026-02-24

I agree with Terry Schenkel's 2021 review that it's a little difficult to get started, but worth the effort. I too have an IT background as a software engineer, and that was very helpful in 'guessing' how the features of Gramps work. Window management departs from MS Windows in some respects (e.g. minimal use of dialog boxes) as the GUI appears to have more X Window ancestry (if you'll pardon the pun.) This surely reflects its UNIX DNA (again, sorry!) I believe it should be pointed out that this software is intended for professional use, not by amateurs. As such, a period of user training is to be expected. And for the general user, this can be frustrating as the UI does not follow the simple conventions of browsers or MS Office, for example. For comparison, Sony Vegas Movie Studio, AutoCAD and Rational Corporation's Rose products are all intended for professional use, and take some investment of time to become proficient in their use. Finally, I found Google's AI Overview when 'how to' questions were correctly phrased to be extremely helpful. To the point and often with alternatives. Once I become fully proficient in the application I'll rate the remaining aspects. So far I've found Gramps' ease-of-use to be good.
terryschenkel Posted 2021-08-08

Excellent project: A little difficult to get started on but well worth the effort. I'm thankful that I've a background in IT app development and data storage. Fantastic community for all sorts of support. Open source is another feature.

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srgrass Posted 2020-10-26

Thank you very much for the free open source program!

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bcornec Posted 2020-05-17

I'm more and more discovering Gramps and we find it both powerful, and easy enough to sue for us to manipulte it correctly. Well done guys.

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randyd3173 Edited 2019-11-16

I also find the product to be difficult at times as some things are hidden deep with out much explanation , it would be nice to have a manual for purchase to use as a reference. I don’t mind the online manual in a form to send off to have printed, is this possible?

Additional Project Details

Operating Systems

Linux, Mac, Windows

Languages

Albanian, Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Macedonian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese

Intended Audience

Developers, End Users/Desktop, Other Audience

User Interface

GTK+

Programming Language

Python

Database Environment

Berkeley/Sleepycat/Gdbm (DBM), Python Database API, SQLite

Related Categories

Python Genealogy Software

Registered

2001-04-21

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