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''{{man menu|One of the most important things in genealogy is that you record how and where you found/deduced the information.}}'' This is known as a Source. What makes this so important is '''at a later time you will need or want to revisit this information.''' Having a source for your information will also '''create trust with other researchers.'''
So, if you begin with yourself, you are ''interviewing'' yourself, which is a primary source on the subject. From this primary source you obtain events such as birth day, baptize baptism day, graduation, ... . The source of the events allows you to deduce a person existed, as part of a family.
With this, we have our main terms for '''genealogy: sources, events, persons and families.''' Apart from these, Gramps allows you to store Notes, Places, Media (pictures, movies, documents), and [[Repositories in Gramps|Repository]].
