M My Own Project — Unofficial Gramps tools and ideas.

Practical development based on everyday Gramps use

The first published project is Gramps Graph View Profiles , an extension for Gramps that lets you save and load Graph View settings as profiles, with startup control, temporary profile use and ProfileTag filtering.

Published projects

Latest news

Parents of a Non-Birth Child for Gramps 5.1 and later is now available

Parents of a Non-Birth Child is a person filter rule that finds people who are a parent in a family where at least one child is recorded with a relationship other than Birth to that parent.

Read about Parents of a Non-Birth Child for Gramps →

Gramps 6.0 JSON Export for Gramps 5.1 / 5.2 is now available

Export a Gramps 6.0 family tree to JSON that can be imported into Gramps 5.1 or 5.2, with tested compatibility adjustments and a conversion report.

Read about JSON Export for Gramps →

Easy Filter Builder 1.01 is now available

Easy Filter Builder provides a simpler way to build Gramps person filters from small reusable blocks, with live match counts and ordinary Gramps rules.

Use the three Simple baskets for common filters or switch to Formula for more complex combinations, then save the result as a normal Gramps custom filter.

Read about Easy Filter Builder →

Family Tree Calendar 1.0 is now available

Family Tree Calendar turns Gramps' lightweight Web Calendar report into clean, mobile-friendly monthly birthday and anniversary pages for a family website.

It adds month and year navigation, expandable historical events, a self-updating entry page and built-in English and Danish calendar text, with support for additional language packs.

Read about Family Tree Calendar →

FilterWorkbench 2.0 is now available

FilterWorkbench (Danish: Filterværksted) has been updated with direct, opt-in integration with Gramps’ own Filter Editor.

Version 2.0 adds Export to / Remove from, tidier deletion of unused helper filters, a nested sidebar tree with quick filtering, and a built-in Guide.

Read about FilterWorkbench →

Gramps Graph View Profiles for Gramps is now available

Gramps Graph View Profiles for Gramps 6.0 is now publicly available.

The extension adds reusable Standard and View profiles, startup control for each family tree, temporary profile use, ProfileTag filtering, and additional validation when profiles are loaded.

Version 1.0 includes source code, installation files, documentation, release notes, and an optional Danish translation.

Questions and support are handled through GitHub Discussions. Bug reports and feature requests can be submitted through GitHub Issues.

Read about Gramps Graph View Profiles →

View the project on GitHub →

Download version 1.0 →

About this collection

My Own Project

My Own Project documents independently developed tools and extensions created from practical work with Gramps and large family trees.

Built from practical experience

The content is based on real family trees, large data collections and many years of practical Gramps use.

Independent and unofficial

These projects are personal extensions and working methods. This website is not an official part of the Gramps project.