Slideshow

With Heredis, the slideshow scrolls through the life of your ancestors in images. This tool presents your photos in a family album, com­posed of different chapters resuming life of the primary person and his/her immediate family.

In this function, Heredis displays the media of the primary person and his family and more specifically the media:

• of the primary person
  
• of his/her spouses
  
• of his/her children
  
• of his/her brothers and sisters
  
• of his/her parents
  
• of his/her grandparents

For all, Heredis shows the person’s media, union media, individual events, union and shared events, media of names, forst names, occupations, places. If they have already been displayed for the primary person, they won’t appear again.

Launch Slideshow

To launch it, place the wanted person as the primary person:

• click the Slideshow  button under the screen of the primary person from the immediate family tab, or the person’s data entry tab.
• click on Reports menu > Slideshow

Let the pages of the photo album scroll through and enjoy your work.

• Click the Pause  button on the top right of the screen to stop on a picture and read the comments on the photo, for example.
• Click the Chapters menu to display all the chapters of your album. By clicking on one of the chapters, you navigate directly to the selected chapter and you can then restart the slideshow by clicking the Play  button at the top right.

Slideshow

Change Slideshow Theme

By default, the slideshow appears with the Retro theme but you can change it according to your tastes. Click the Themes menu and choose another theme from the selection.

Each theme has an associated music. It is not editable.

At the bottom of the screen, you have an audio player for playing music. As you watch this family slideshow, the photos parade with the music. Click the Sound icon to cut the sound.

Filter the images of the slideshow

By default, all media of the primary person and his/her close family are displayed.

Click on the cogwheel and choose the images you want to see for the primary person, his/her children, his/her spouse and unions, the other persons (brothers, sisters…) etc.

Filter images of Slideshow 

Note: other photos are those attached to places, surnames, given names, occupations, sources, and linked to the primary person.

A box to tick allows you to exclude from this slideshow all private images of your genealogy.

Export the slideshow

Now you wish to share this sideshow, click on the Export button. Heredis creates, in the location of your choice, a folder with the photo album of the primary person, the way you set it. Share this folder with your relatives: they can play it by simply clicking the HTML page created in The photo album of […].html and even if they do not have the Heredis software.

You can also copy the folder to a USB key or an external hard-drive and plug it to your TV, computer or any other USB outlet… to visualize the slideshow with your family.

Important: You need to copy the entire folder if you want the Slideshow to work.

(Mac) Slideshow’s folder in Finder

(Windows) Slideshow’s folder in Windows Explorer

To exit the slideshow, simply click the Exit button at the top right.