![]() ![]() Depending on whether the Active person is Male or Female, the spouse genders swap. The Stepchildren of the Active Person might prove complicated too. Likewise if a grandparent was added without a known parent, a reciprocal Grandparent/Grandchild Association could be added as a Placeholder until the Family Relationship is made explicit. The Distant Cousin would create a 3-way Association between 2 cousins and their common Ancestor. Note that Associate and Distant Cousin buttons are included for generating a person without immediate family ties that instead would create a reciprocal Association to the Active Person. GrampsRelationshipsCoreBoard 1071×1031 35 KB I’ve tossed together a prototype (inspired by ’s Blended Family Tree printable form) of the concept board, the hotspots & the relationships using the Photo Tagging feature and a dummy tree of 34 inter-related people. So a click on one position would open a person for editing with certain relationships defined relative to the Active Person. Only instead of merely having 2 relationships available, the majority of the relationships within 2 degrees of separation from the Active Person would be available. ![]() The idea is similar to what is available in the Charts right now for adding Parents to a Pedigree. I was thinking that a Relationships Core Concept board might be an alternative method for interrelate a Blended Family. (Although tablet computer based Core Board apps are slowly becoming available.) The normal Core Board is NOT electronic… simply printed and laminated. These use touch pad positions to communicate a basic (core) concept when normal speech is not an option. There is a set of Augmentative and Alternative Communication tools used in Speech Pathology called “Core Boards” or “Communication Boards”. So perhaps our efforts should be geared more towards pushing the boundaries of what a genealogy program can do, making it more appealing to the serious user. That brands Gramps as a tool for more serious genealogists. I suppose one question is this: How much effort should be put into making Gramps easier for the casual user, who may well be satisfied with a less powerful application? The general consensus seems to be that Gramps has a steep learning curve, but is very powerful. This can get involved since the user would then still have to get up to speed on places, sources, and citations too. Not through a plugin (which would have to be preinstalled), but rather, to start, have a popup with an animated arrow showing what to click to add the first person, then a popup with animated arrow showing what to click to add parents, then the same for children. What could be done to help a user from square one? I think about how some games work. ![]() I agree with BugBear when he said “This effectively bypasses every Gramps concept, so it doesn’t help learning how to use gramps, it merely defers it.” I don’t remember any specific problems learning how to use Gramps, however, I wished I had learned about the clipboard much sooner. I tried it since there are not a lot of alternatives for Linux users. I started using Gramps about 9 years ago when I restarted my research after a ~15 year break. It would be very interesting to know where new Gramps users actually come from. ![]() I could make a case that the project should lean into that! It may be a bit more complex to learn but it does so much more than your old software! Gramps is remarkably flexible and powerful. They want to know how Gramps works in comparison to what they’re used to. It seems to me that most are dissatisfied with another software package. If that is what they want, how did they end up with Gramps? My impression is that there is no genealogical society recommending Gramps to new members. That’s difficult to automate!Įven the basic premise of this thread–that new users want to input a few immediate family members and print a tree–is somewhat suspect. Others want hyper-linked documentation.Ī lot of people really want a mentor looking over their shoulder. Some would like printed documentation to have beside them as they learn. I think the trouble is that “new users” come in endless varieties! ![]()
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