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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, 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|RepositoryRepositories]].
So, let's now start with adding information into Gramps.