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Discover the key features of the number one genealogy software program

Experience the software for free: download the demo version right now and get a clear idea of all the possibilities Heredis has to offer.

Data entry

Let the quick entry window guide you or import a GEDCOM file.

Sharing

Share with whomever you choose and edit documents.

Searches

Search for your ancestors amongst archives in Europe as well as in the rest of the world.

Tools

Capture official documents, enhance your photos, create albums and slideshows.

Charts

Construct fabulous family trees and print them!

Dashboard

Track the progress of your genealogy and display your data.

1 - Data entry

« A smart and intuitive data entry tool in a customizable workspace… »

Create persons, links, and family trees, or import GEDCOM files. Add your family members, use your media as illustrations (photos, videos, sounds, pdf and Word files, etc.), associate events (birth, christening, marriage, etc.), witnesses, places, sources, private notes, facts, alternate names, and much, much more…

Perhaps you have already entered your genealogical data in another software… There is no need to re-enter everything in Heredis! Simply import your genealogy file directly into Heredis. GEDCOM importing and exporting in Heredis is compatible with the international standard for exchanging genealogical data, and includes photos, videos, audio and pdf files, URL, notes, etc.

Importing Gedcom 7 file  : Exchange data with genealogists who use a software or website other than Heredis. Gone are the days when you had to manually find photos in a GEDCOM file sent by your cousin. Now it’s all done automatically!

Basic, comprehensive or customized, at every stage.

In Heredis, a date can just as well be entered with numbers, with or without separators, with numbers and letters, completely spelled out or abbreviated. It can also be entered according to a Gregorian, Julian, French Republican, or Hebrew calendar. The date converter tool allows you to convert dates entered in any of the four above-mentioned calendars. Each time you print a sheet, a report or a chart, you are given the option to choose your date format.

When creating your very first tree, the quick entry window will prompt you to enter data for the first/primary person in your family. This will generally be yourself: Surname, Given Names, Occupation, Gender, Date of birth, Place of birth, etc. You may then assign a source to your event, such as your birth certificate, and a picture of yourself. Do the same for your parents, their parents, your spouse, your children, etc.

Do you know full well that you won’t find any additional information on a given person in your genealogy? You may now indicate that this person is “complete” thanks to the “Declare as complete” label in the Personal Data tab.

Adoption, birth, christening, marriage, census, military service, etc. There are dozens of event categories. Customize events or share events with several persons in your genealogy.

Get a new input grid adapted to population censuses and fully customizable !

Dive into your ancestors’ everyday life: household composition, occupation and status of each family member, nationality, home address, and even, at times, detailed data on their religion…

You can complete your data by adding scanned images (photographs, signatures, coats of arms, etc.), sound recordings (interviews, speeches…), videos, or documents prepared in another software.

Media can be added to: a person, a couple, an event, a source, a surname, a given name, an occupation, or a place.

Easily enter several persons and their relatives under one same data entry screen: the primary person, his or her parents, spouses, children, and the children’s spouses are represented.

A source is the origin of the information you have found. It can be an original document (such as manuscripts, correspondence, notes, etc.), an official document (e.g. civil or religious records), or a “reference” work (an autobiography, a research paper, a scientific presentation, etc.) that can validate the authenticity of the information.

Among other things, Heredis allows you to categorize your sources and to manage the level of certainty/quality of each source. Heredis gives you the option to manage 3 levels of sources: repositories, sources, and source citations.

Save time by sharing an event with several persons in your genealogy in just one simple entry. This is particularly useful for instance with census records: enter the event once and link it to every person mentioned in the document.

Define your own types of facts and enter information such as education levels, religions, physical descriptions, nationalities, social security numbers, etc.

A father or mother can’t seem to be found?

It is not uncommon to come across abandoned children or children born with unknown fathers when doing genealogical research. In most cases, chances of finding out who the parents were are quite slim. You can now categorize such “dead ends” in a quick and easy manner by checking the Untraceable Father and Untraceable Mother boxes. At any moment, you may thus declare these persons as Complete so you can move on and focus on more fruitful researches without wasting additional time in your genealogical endeavors.

Thanks to this new label, you will see right away whether any ancestor needs to be searched for or not.

This information can be found in the sheets or even in your GEDCOM file.

Enter notes for a person, a family, an event, a place, a name, a media and have fun by playing with formats so they are easier to read: add a bit of color, bold a word, use titles, bullet lists…

Hide, exclude, or filter persons if you do not wish them to appear in your publications, books, exports…

Include several spelling variants for one same name. Throughout centuries, the spelling of surnames has often been modified, as you will see for yourself when doing your genealogical research, and you will certainly find various spellings for one same family name.

Choose the current spelling as the main surname and you may then assign all the name variants you have recorded.

Ahnentafel is a genealogical numbering system for listing a person’s direct ancestors in a fixed sequence of ascent.

Use your own numbering system for the persons in your genealogy.

When you import data from FamilySearch, Heredis will keep your FamilySearch numbering.

Genealogists can search for a specific subdivision on a map in OpenStreetMap®, cut and paste it from a toponym, complete/replace it, and drag-and-drop it on the map.

2 - Searches

« Both a powerful internal search engine and a gate to the largest genealogy databases. »

Browse public archive records and large genealogy databases online. Directly from Heredis, you can capture civil status records, registers, and any other document useful to trace your ancestors and their family history.

Select a person in Heredis then let the search wizard explore databases such as FamilySearch, Heredis Online, Ancestry, MyHeritage, FindMyPast, etc. Use the capture tool to integrate newly found sources directly into your genealogy.

Heredis is certified by FamilySearch. FamilySearch is the world’ largest online collection of genealogical data. It offers more than six billion person entries, which you can browse in Heredis – from the
comfort of your home and free of charge.

Connecting to FamilySearch directly from Heredis, will allow you to:

  • Search in their universal Family Tree and access numerous digital documents.
  • Compare the persons in your tree with those in Family Search and link them
    together if you wish to.
  • Import ancestors’ and descendants’ branches from the FamilySearch
    universal Family Tree when you find matches with your tree or simply import
    your FamilySearch online tree. You will then recover persons and
    corresponding events, notes and sources.

Everything you need is within reach when in Heredis: national archives, military databases, libraries, in the entire world – in the US, in the UK, in Europe, etc. Capture the documents you find and add them to your genealogy.

Always at hand, it allows you to search for persons, places, sources, media, etc.

Thanks to this powerful multi criteria search engine, sift through your data, find events such as families without lineage, children born the same day or out of wedlock, personal or family events, etc. Create your own search models and save them for later.

As an example, it is easy to find all instances of “St” and replace them with “Saint”; this tool can be combined with Smart Search and be applied to various fields such as notes, description/cause, or even health and place subdivisions.

Research journal   : No more wasting a half-hour figuring out what you meant to research next. keep track of your work and save time when doing research.

3 - Charts

« Remarkably well thought-out. Constructing family trees with Heredis is sheer child’s play! »

Create, publish, and print as many family trees as you like, to choose from dozens of chart options: short or tall, for ancestors, descendants, using the fan or hourglass type, with 10, 50, or 100 generations…

Heredis lets you view your family under four different angles, which is ideal to bring to light information you might have overlooked otherwise. These views may give you important new insights for your research and a better understanding of your family history.

The Immediate family view displays a person’s direct family members (parents, grandparents, spouses, children). Go straight to the point by adding a new person in the Immediate family. Adding a child, a spouse, a parent or a grandparent is quick and easy! In just one click, access directly the new person window in simple mode.

A “super size” tree with the entire family – View and edit all your relatives and contemporaries in a fully redesigned family tree with 4 zoom levels.

  • Children, grand-children as well as grandparents and great-grandparents
  • Nephews and nieces, cousins, second- and third-degree cousins
  • The parents’ half-brothers and sisters along with their children, uncles and aunts, great-uncles and aunts
  • All relatives
  • Global and detailed view, filters
  • Hide or display silhouettes and media
  • Tree printing
  • Addition and edition of persons

Visually identify the whereabouts of your ancestors! Discover the location of your roots thanks to our color-coded location tree.

Display the birth cities, counties, states/provinces or countries of your ancestors and offer this masterwork to your relatives: all you have to do is print the location tree!

Edit a wheel chart of your ancestors to visualize a 360° representation of your family tree!

Color the persons in the wheel either by generation, gender, quarter, by complete or marked persons, so as to highlight the most relevant data from your genealogy file. This representation allows you to quickly visualize if any ancestor is missing in any branch. Your wheel chart can include up to 12 generations. It can be exported to PDF and then be printed: this is a great-looking ancestors wheel chart to share with your relatives!

Display in just one click a person’s descendants thanks to a 360° representation and highlight exciting data: their descendants by Family (spouse), all descendants in the Ahnentafel lineage, descendants whose other parent remains unknown, descendants by branch… As many options as you can think of to highlight key elements in your genealogy!

You’ll keep shedding more light on your family history thanks to Heredis 2022!

Ancestors and descendants location wheel   : Show your geographical origins with the location wheels.Visualize at a glance the cradle of your genealogy. The wheels highlight your ancestors’ and descendants’ origins thanks to the coloring by places: city, county, state/province, or even birth country.

Discover over 30 illustrated tree options created by a painter and artist. These ancestors’ trees have been developed to add a touch of originality and should definitely be printed.

Not only are they beautiful but they are also easy to customize. No other software can claim a selection of such superior quality family trees made available in just two clicks. Thanks to a powerful formatting tool, you can make and see changes in real time. These designed pedigree charts can hold up to 7 generations and be printed from A4 to A0 paper.

Finding your ancestors is one great thing. Being able to display them in charts that you can show to others is even better. Construct ancestors’ charts of all sizes, of all shapes in just a couple of clicks. In Heredis, you are given quite a significant selection to choose from:

  • Designed charts
  • Single-page charts
  • Fan charts
  • Unlimited charts

Display descendants using an optimized and clarified presentation. The different spouses of each descendant are presented in the same box, each with their own number that can then be found on their children. A very useful feature to locate and visualize half-brothers and sisters.

Combining the best of both views on a single graph: the Ancestors and Descendants wheels reunited!
Added bonus: the primary person is displayed with his/her spouse, or spouses if he/she has had more than one. Thus, you can get a more detailed analysis of their descendants! This new feature is also available in the Descendants Wheel!
Export it as a pdf file to send or print, and gift it as an original present. Display it at genealogy shows to illustrate the life of a famous character!

4 - Documents & Sharing

« Heredis allows me to organize my genealogical searches and to share the fruit of my investigations… »

Edit and print reports, sheets, and illustrated books. Share your family trees on the net and from all your devices. Display your family album and tell the story of your ancestors.

Heredis allows you to share a genealogy file with another PC, a Mac, an iPhone, an iPad, an
iPod touch, a tablet, or an Android phone. Read more about Genealogy apps on Android and iOS.

Publish your genealogy on Heredis Online directly from your software. You are just a few clicks away from creating a website dedicated to your ancestors, which you can share with whomever you choose and at absolutely no extra charge. You may add a password to grant access to your website – your genealogical data is under your control and you are the one in charge.

When using Heredis 2022, you can take full advantage of the new formidable version of Heredis Online! Discover this more powerful and more secure environment where to share your family tree online with other “ancestors hunters” but also with your close family and other relatives. Navigate through your tree using an adapted and more intuitive interface.

Its modern design highlights valuable information about your genealogy. Adjust the look of your online genealogy with the “Day” theme to improve visibility when it is sunny and bright, or feel free to give your eyes a break when necessary with the “Night” theme.

As the owner of your online genealogy, you will have access to all of your information. The “Visitor” mode allows you to check what visitors to your online genealogy will see and whether your settings have been configured correctly. Find online everything you love about Heredis!

Generate, personalize, export, and print reports of persons, events, families, sources, places, etc.

Heredis also allows you to publish a sheet for each person or each family in your file. Print, export, analyze, work on each ancestor again. Use the Heredis sheets to display the information you need and choose the layout you like best.

Heredis can write the story of your ancestors for you. Ancestors’ and descendants’ books allow you to create an actual family book, using the appropriate terminology, which includes a preface, an introduction, genealogical tables, and an index at the end of the document.

Your personalized, automatically generated book is an opportunity for you to make an original gift for a birth, a wedding, or even to make a presentation during a reunion with your immediate or extended family. Other types of books can be printed such as the patronymic dictionary (inspired from the famous Genealogical Dictionary of Canadian Families, in Quebec) or even the “Clan” book.

Gather ALL families from any given village in one genealogy book.

Become an expert on a place by editing your own historical reconstructions of villages! Heredis 2022 allows you to edit a new genealogical book entitled Families from my village. It lists all the families, in alphabetical order, who lived or passed through this place: a person, his/her parents, his/her spouses and children as well as the children’s spouses! A trove of information that will undoubtedly help genealogists conducting researches in a specific location!

This is an ideal feature for societies collecting local records and resources in order to carry out family reconstitutions in a given town or village. These books represent an inventory of all the archival documents you have unearthed over time about a town or village, recorded in a single book.

Find out which families were the largest in one given place, or on the contrary the smallest, thanks to an easy to-use indexed directory that is likely to save a considerable amount of time to whomever tries to locate his/her roots. Display the life history of a family in just one click thanks to clickable references and easily navigate from one family to another.

Show, discover, or rediscover fascinating information on genealogy in general and on the history of a village thanks to the preamble on the place but also to the notes, the mentions of religions, the titles of the people, their filiation, their links, their occupations…

Share this document to bring help to genealogists in the same area!

Your family pictures are displayed onscreen with 9 different background designs and musical themes for you to choose from. Export your ancestors’ slideshow to a USB key and share it on several computers or even on your TV if it is equipped with a web browser. You are also given the option to choose which type(s) of photos to include in the slideshow.

With the new Family Chronology feature, you can now visualize how your family history unfolded over time and place your ancestors back in the time period and context they lived in.
You can also easily see how long your ancestors lived, and how old they were when their children or grandchildren were born, just to name a few examples.
Compare the lives of several ancestors from your family tree in just one glance, then imagine in what way their lives overlapped.

Pinpoint potential gaps in your genealogy over certain time periods by grouping your ancestors by place of birth, for example, then work on completing/correcting the missing or erroneous pieces!
You can use this feature as a basis for illustrating one of your ancestors’ biography! Print out the Family Chronology and insert it in your biographical document.

5 - Tools

« Absolutely indispensable! They are real time savers and totally user friendly… »

The Heredis genealogist’s toolkit makes the whole difference. Focus on your genealogical activities and reach new summits!

Capture genealogical documents, official records, images, faces, details from a picture and even identify persons on the photo. A person you do not recognize at first may later be identified by one of your relatives, which will allow you to add information to this photo. If your pictures are not perfect, you can correct them easily. Crop them, rotate them, increase saturation or convert color pictures to wonderful black and white images.

Each event associated with a place is illustrated on an interactive map. Heredis is the only software that can not only show places but also migration flows for an entire family on an interactive map.

Within seconds, you can trace your ancestors’ lives and the whereabouts of their lineage, be it a few miles away or at the other end of the world. Each map marker indicates the list of events inventoried for this place. An ideal tool to simultaneously visualize the migrations of all immediate family members and to grasp a better understanding of a family’s history.

Indexes can be edited for easier use and to speed up data entry:

  • Surnames index
  • Given names index
  • Occupations index
  • Places index
  • Sources index
  • Repositories index
  • Media index

You can retrieve indexes created by fellow genealogists or in other Heredis genealogy files. Retrieve his or her entire work on the places, including media, place descriptions, etc. Available for Surnames, Given Names, Occupations, Places and Sources!

The date converter tool allows you to convert any date entered in one of the four calendars recognized by Heredis: Gregorian, Julian, French Republican, and Hebrew.

It can calculate a date of birth (if you enter the person’s age at a dated event), the date of an event (if you have an event where the age is mentioned) or it can calculate the age at an event.

Select the data to be processed: siblings, private, media, sources, facts, witnesses…

Edit amazing fully-customizable reports and export them to Microsoft® Excel or CSV format, even directly from Smart Search… 4 models are available: Ancestors, Descendants, Persons and Events.

  • Select and format the data you wish to include in your report
  • Savable Models : save your custom report to preserve its settings and be able to go back to it at a later time
  • Leave several reports open at the same time and work simultaneously on your genealogy: your reports will be updated all along, based on the information you are adding to your tree. A much more comfortable way to work!

You have created a person who already existed in your genealogy? You have imported your cousin’s genealogical data into yours and now find yourself with a bunch of duplicates? Heredis 2022 offers a brand-new merge module! It will assist you from A to Z during this usually tricky process thanks to a comparison tree! Review all the information of a person as easily as ABC.

Filter potential duplicates and display a preview to compare duplicate persons in a tree. Navigate through your genealogy using the comparison tree and switch from one person to another – if need be – to fully understand the family context of the persons to be merged. Colorful alerts and summaries will help you prevent mistakes!

This tool offers a very high level of precision in the selection of information to be merged. The automatic filling of identical data will also save you some time. All you have to do is focus on the conflicts to be managed thanks to the alerts that will guide your choices.

You can choose to merge all the information related to a person (Notes, Alternate names, Spouses or even Person sources…) and visualize the result before merging. Thus keeping it all fully under control!

New management of duplicates   : Perform a major cleanup of duplicate records in your genealogy.  It is absolutely crucial to make sure that your file is accurate and reliable so you can properly manage your genealogy and progress in your searches. The new Find Duplicates tool will help you sort through your duplicate ancestors.

Make your work space fit your personal tastes and habits. Menus, buttons, the toolbar, side panels, color themes, your preferences for appearance and automatic entries, the creation of shortcuts – all of the above can be customized in Heredis.

4 tools to help you search for and geolocate key places in your ancestors’ lives, throughout the world…

  • Geolocating Place Subdivisions: genealogists can search for a specific subdivision on a map in OpenStreetMap®, cut and paste it from a toponym, complete/replace it, and drag-and-drop it on the map.
  • Zoom in on a Place: with OpenStreetMap®, learn more about the town’s population density, area, home town, and much more.
  • Bordering Places: extend your searches to bordering cities. A tool that comes in very handy, for instance when you are looking for a marriage certificate you can’t seem to find in the bride’s hometown!
  • A new Family Tree Mapping: in the blink of an eye, you will be able to visualize the geographical distribution of the persons in your file, then navigate onto the Places Index and the Immediate Family screen. An optimized feature for large genealogy files.

6 - Dashboard

« Essential and so useful! »

The Dashboard offers a unique monitoring tool for your searches: in one quick look, you will know where you are at in your genealogy.