Family History Ramblings

I installed GRAMPS 2.0.9 from source 2 or 3 days ago, with no hiccups but haven't worked with it so far. The version which I was using before was 1.0.8. I just went to look at it with a view to inserting links to this blog in the webpages and am quite impressed by the results of the default website output, although it seems to drop some of the footnote links between events and sources. Could be I've input them in different ways, though...

Anyway, it produces far more thorough, tidy output, although I had to look at the Help to find out how to include links to external pages. This too is extremely thorough and well-written, one of the best Helps for a Linux app that I've seen. I look forward to finding out what other improvements they've made.

Well, I was inspired to set up this blog after scanning through a family history magazine in Smiths today. Successfully resisted the urge to buy the magazine (having to prevent the kids from dismantling the shop helped) but an article about blogging did catch the eye and was retained by my consciousness long enough to get home and organise this.

So now, in theory, I have a place where I can muse over various aspects of my family history research which don't fit easily into the order of the GRAMPS database or the chaos of saved webpages and scans on the PC. Whether I have the discipline or can find the time to make it an effective tool is quite another thing, as the half finished transcription for FreeCEN sadly bears witness.