Re: Question about capability by version number
Bret Busby <[email protected]>
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On 17/4/22 7:24 am, Charles R. Dennett wrote: > On 4/16/22 18:20, Bret Busby wrote: >> Hello. >> >> I have GRAMPS v 5.1.3-1 running on UbuntuMATE Linux v20.10 . >> >> I have recently received from a cousin, a GEDCOM file with about 1300 >> names, for the lineage of one of my grandparents, with some of the >> ancestry, going back into the 12th century CE. >> >> In trying to get a "Relationship to Home Person", with me set as the >> Homie ( :) ), I got an error message stating that the relationship >> went more than the maximum of 15 generations. >> >> I am wondering whether v5.1.5 of GRAMPS, which I assume (but do not >> know) will be in Ubuntu Linux v22.04, which is due to be released in a >> couple of weeks, will be able to calculate relationships for more than >> 15 generations, and, if so, for how many generations will be its >> maximum that it can calculate relationships. >> >> Please advise. >> >> Thank you in anticipation. >> > > Hi, > > Just getting back into doing my own genealogy so I thought I'd jump in > here. Bring up gramps. Under Edit -> Preferences, look at the General > tab. There is an item called Max generations for relationships. Mine > is set to the default 15. It can be increased. I wonder if raising > that would fix your issue? I'm on 5.1.5 under Fedora. > > Charles Dennett > http://www.dennett.org <- My genealogy site. > > > Thank you for that. However, the maximum allowed for my version, is 50, and, as shown in a message that I posted, which is later than the one of mine, to which the response above is made, I apparently need a limit of about 150-200, to go from me, to the earliest ancestors in the file. I apparently need a limit of about 150-200, for both the relationships calculator, and, the report generation. -- Bret Busby Genealogical DNA Research Participant and Campaigner Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800) .............. -- Gramps-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gramps-users https://gramps-project.org