{"id":48469,"date":"2025-09-02T14:00:02","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T12:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/help.heredis.com\/?p=48469"},"modified":"2025-09-01T11:04:58","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T09:04:58","slug":"location-wheels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/help.heredis.com\/en\/location-wheels\/","title":{"rendered":"Location Wheels"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]The Ancestors and Descendants wheels can be found under the <strong>Graphs<\/strong> tab.<br \/>\nYou can apply an additional filter to create a &#8220;location wheel&#8221; and see at a glance the geographical origin of your ancestors and of their descendants.<\/p>\n<h3><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-55558\" src=\"https:\/\/help.heredis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/roue_region_26-en.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1439\" height=\"884\" srcset=\"https:\/\/help.heredis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/roue_region_26-en.jpg 1439w, https:\/\/help.heredis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/roue_region_26-en-300x184.jpg 300w, https:\/\/help.heredis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/roue_region_26-en-1024x629.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/help.heredis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/roue_region_26-en-768x472.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, 1439px\" \/><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Note<\/strong>: Since Heredis 2026, the options panel has been optimized. Click on the <strong>Contents<\/strong> or <strong>Display<\/strong> title to reduce the number of options displayed.<\/p>\n<h3>Create a location wheel<\/h3>\n<p>Select the primary person for whom you wish to create an Ancestors or Descendants location wheel.<\/p>\n<p>Click on the <strong>Graphs<\/strong> tab.<\/p>\n<p>Click on the type of wheel you have in mind: <strong>Ancestors Wheel<\/strong> or <strong>Descendants or Mixed Wheel <\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>In the <strong>Options &gt; Display<\/strong> section, choose the shape. In the <strong>Options &gt; Contents<\/strong> section, specify the number of generations to manage.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-55561\" src=\"https:\/\/help.heredis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/roue_region_options_26-en.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1441\" height=\"898\" srcset=\"https:\/\/help.heredis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/roue_region_options_26-en.jpg 1441w, https:\/\/help.heredis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/roue_region_options_26-en-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/help.heredis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/roue_region_options_26-en-1024x638.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/help.heredis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/roue_region_options_26-en-768x479.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1441px) 100vw, 1441px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In <strong>Display<\/strong> section, click on the dropdown list and choose the coloring by <strong>Place<\/strong>, then proceed in the same manner with the next dropdown list to choose the coloring either by<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>city<\/li>\n<li>county<\/li>\n<li>state\/province<\/li>\n<li>country<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can modify your wheel\u2019s base color by clicking on the arrows or hold your mouse left click on the color strip and drag to the desired color.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-48177\" src=\"https:\/\/help.heredis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/roue-lieu-choix-couleur-fr.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"343\" height=\"61\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Click on <strong>Hide the legend<\/strong> to remove the color legend available to the right of the wheel.<br \/>\nIf you click on a location in the legend, all occurrences are highlighted. You can click on multiple locations at once.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-55564\" src=\"https:\/\/help.heredis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/roue_region_colorisation_26-en.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1440\" height=\"902\" srcset=\"https:\/\/help.heredis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/roue_region_colorisation_26-en.jpg 1440w, https:\/\/help.heredis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/roue_region_colorisation_26-en-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/help.heredis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/roue_region_colorisation_26-en-1024x641.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/help.heredis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/roue_region_colorisation_26-en-768x481.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If the person has no place of birth, the box will be colored gray. Click on<strong> No place<\/strong> in the legend to highlight<\/p>\n<p>In Contents section, as with the previous <a href=\"https:\/\/help.heredis.com\/en\/?p=18291\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ancestors<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/help.heredis.com\/en\/?p=23542\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Descendants<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/help.heredis.com\/en\/?p=50831\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mixed<\/a> wheels, you can check\/uncheck the following boxes depending on the kind of wheel chosen:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Empty boxes<\/strong>. To obtain a perfect wheel, or simply to view the remaining work, check the Show empty boxes box to view them.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Duplicate branches<\/strong>. In genealogy, consanguineous marriages are common. These marriages lead to the repetition of branches, known as implexes. You can view implexes by checking the <strong>duplicate branches<\/strong> box. The text in the boxes of persons present several times in the wheel is then written in red. You can then right-click on one of the implexed boxes and choose <strong>Show all occurrences<\/strong> to see where the boxes for that person are located. Heredis highlights them for ease of use.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Persons with no descendants <\/strong>(in Descendants and Mixed Wheels): If you have ticked the \u201cPersons with no descendants\u201d box (see <a href=\"https:\/\/help.heredis.com\/en\/the-different-data-fields\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The different data fields &gt; Flags and their use<\/a>) in personal data tab, you can display the end of the branch by ticking the box. Childless will then be written in a box to indicate the end of the branch.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Untraceable Parents<\/strong> allows you to display the boxes of missing parents of an individual.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Confidentials<\/strong> display or not the persons declared confidential in the genealogy. If \u201cConfidential\u201d <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-15910\" src=\"https:\/\/help.heredis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Confidentiel_16.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"21\" height=\"21\" \/>is unchecked, persons will appear with the word Confidential in their box.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Use Gregorian Dates<\/strong>. This option makes it possible to transform the dates entered into an unusual calendar into a Gregorian date for a better understanding, for your family members, for example.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Flags<\/strong>. If you have set tags for the persons in your genealogy and you tick the box, the persons present will be marked with the flag(s) icon(s).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-53187\" src=\"https:\/\/help.heredis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/roue_region25_pc-en-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1438\" height=\"894\" srcset=\"https:\/\/help.heredis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/roue_region25_pc-en-1.jpg 1438w, https:\/\/help.heredis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/roue_region25_pc-en-1-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/help.heredis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/roue_region25_pc-en-1-1024x637.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/help.heredis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/roue_region25_pc-en-1-768x477.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1438px) 100vw, 1438px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Choose the format of your first names by clicking on the drop-down menu.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>all given names,<\/li>\n<li>first given name,<\/li>\n<li>usual given name<\/li>\n<li>or the given name and initials of subsequent names.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Choose the format of the places shown in the boxes.<\/p>\n<p>Click the <strong>Default parameters<\/strong> button to go back to return to the default settings of the wheel.<\/p>\n<h3>Export and Print the Wheel<\/h3>\n<p>See the article <a href=\"https:\/\/help.heredis.com\/en\/?p=55290\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Export a personal or family timeline or wheel for printing<\/a>, which explains the details.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ancestors and Descendants wheels can be found under the Graphs tab.<br \/>\nStarting with Heredis 2023, you can apply an [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-use-heredis"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Location Wheels - Heredis Help Knowledgebase<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/help.heredis.com\/les-roues-de-region\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Location Wheels - Heredis Help Knowledgebase\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Ancestors and Descendants wheels can be found under the Graphs tab. 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