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To easily merge two people, select them both (a second person can be selected by holding the Control key while clicking) and clicking on <b>Edit > Fast Merge</b>.
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GRAMPS maintains a list of previous Active People. You can move forward and backward through the list using <b>Go > Forward</b> and <b>Go > Back</b>.
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Tired of having to take your hand off the keyboard to use the mouse? Many functions in GRAMPS have keyboard shortcuts. If one exists for a function it is displayed on the right side of the menu.
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Don't forget to read the GRAMPS manual, <b>Help > User Manual</b>. The developers have worked hard to make most operations intuitive but the manual is full of information that will make your time spent on genealogy more productive.
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<b>Adding Children</b>: To add children in GRAMPS make either of the parents the Active Person then switch to the Family View. If the child is already in the database, click on the third button down to the right of the Children list. If the person is not already in the database, click on the second button down to the right of the Children list. After the child's information is entered they will automatically be listed as a child of the Active Person.
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<b>Editing The Relationship of a Child</b>: Not all children are the related by birth to their parents. You can edit the relationship of a child to each parent by selecting the child, right-clicking, and choosing "Edit the child parent relationship". Relationships can be any of Birth, Adopted, Stepchild, Sponsored, Foster, or Unknown.
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data/tips.xml:212
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<b>Show All Checkbutton</b>: When adding a spouse or child, the list of people shown is filtered to display only people who could realistically fit the role (based on dates in the database). In case GRAMPS is wrong in making this choice, you can override that filter by checking the "Show All" checkbutton.
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<b>GRAMPS Manual</b>: The GRAMPS manual is quite elaborate and well written. It includes details on keybindings and includes some useful tips that will help you in your genealogy work. Check it out.
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data/tips.xml:227
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<b>Improving GRAMPS</b>: Users are encouraged 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) at http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=25770&atid=385140 Filing an RFE is preferred.
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data/tips.xml:236
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<b>GRAMPS Mailing Lists</b>: Want answers to your queries about GRAMPS? Check out the gramps-users list. Many people are on the list, so you're likely to get an answer quickly. If you have questions related to the development of GRAMPS, try gramps-devel. Information on both mailing lists can be found at lists.sf.net.
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