GRAMPS (my genealogy software) version 3.0.2 just came out and I upgraded. It has lots of bug fixes and tweaks, including to several things which had annoyed me about 3.0.1. Unfortunately, they did not fix one of the things which bothered me: the pages of living individuals still do not include the persons’ pictures. Those are considered “private” data and hidden along with birth dates and places and other identifying information.
Fortunately, one of the nice things about open source software, such as GRAMPS, is that you can fix it if you do not like it. I took a bit of time and tweaked one file and, voila!, my genealogy web site now includes the pictures of living people. See, for instance, Candy’s page.
Finally, I contributed my code back to the project where it will (hopefully) be useful to other people.
I am very happy that 3.0.2 fixed one bug which I found incredibly annoying. The scanned images of my source material had not been making it onto my web site. Now, the images are neatly published. For instance, you can see my great grandfather, Nathan Herzog, and his father, Salomon Herzog, in the 1870 US census. Look at lines 16 and 13, respectively. (Click on the thumbnail to see a larger image. Then click on the larger image to get a full-sized scan which is readily readable.)
