As a beginner, I have been storing my research in the GRAMPS database on my computer. I have dabbled with it a bit, stuck loads of stuff in there and made separate lists of different core families to try to make searching through it all easier. With a bit of luck I should be able to stitch them all together into a massive meta tree later.
However, annoying issues have arisen, which spoil the purpose I had of producing the chart. I cannot get the darned thing to display whole families, only the descendent lines. Now, this is great for grandparents ad infinitum, but I wanted the list to allow me to see who my aunties and uncles were across the generations, and cousins too. I cannot seem to get it to do this. So I would like to know:
1. Does anyone know of a gramplet that will let me see things the way I want them, or
2. Is there another free-issue database that I can copy my data into without too much hassle that does what I want?
I know that the GRAMPS programme uses the GEDCOM format so others in that format should make transferring less of a mess, but I would like to know whether I could sort this out!
Generally, any recommendations on free or paid services in a list so that beginners could see the benefits and pitfalls would be nice! Thank you.