

The preferred name section contains the typical name information you will edit upon creation of a person. Note however that searching on a name will search in all names attached to a person, not only the preferred name. Only detailed reports (textual and Narrative Web site generator) show also the alternate names. You can set in the Gramps Preferences how a name is displayed, and generally you will only the need to put data in fields shown in the preferred name section. The preferred or default name is the name that will be used in Gramps for the ' name' of the person. 9.1.5 "Preferred name" section (Highlighted in yellow) of "Edit Person" - dialog - example From the Charts Category: Double-click in the box having the name of the person whose data you want to edit.Īny of these methods will prompt you with the Edit Person dialog.įig.From the Relationships Category: To edit the Active Person's data, click on the Edit button next to the Active Person's name.from the Edit menu of Gramps Select Edit from the context menu that appears upon right-click on the name. This dialog can be invoked from different Views in the following ways:ĭouble-click the name of the person whose data you would like to edit Select the name by single click and then click the Edit button on the toolbar. Information about people is entered and edited through the Edit Person dialog.

2 Editing information about relationships.
