Gramps

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.

Thank you very much for the free open source program!

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.

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?

I have been using Gramps for years (with Windows and Linux) and I enjoy its features a lot: its windows are more independant than windows-born softwares, the filters give a lot of possibilities and the soft runs quickly on my computers. The biggest trouble is that Gramps (5.0.1-1) crashes at almost every session (I am using it in Windows, at the moment, adding people, notes and pictures) . My file is 8500 people, not a huge one. I would like to use Gramps as my main genealogy program, it is the one I prefer. I use also Legacy Family Tree and sometimes Ancestris (no big problems with gedcom export / import with Gramps). Sure, for me the only trouble with Gramps are those "unattended errors" that happen several times a day, sometimes several time a session. I must add that I tried downgrading to Gramps 4.28 on Linux (using the repository version instead of v. 5) but I had many crashes too so I reinstalled v. 5. I do not know anything in programing but I noticed the errors always come from some *.py and the last line in the error report is always "sqlite3.OperationalError: cannot start a transaction within a transaction". My OS: Linux MATE 18.04, Windows 10, up to date.