{"id":51700,"date":"2025-09-02T14:00:37","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T12:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/help.heredis.com\/?p=51700"},"modified":"2025-09-02T14:47:49","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T12:47:49","slug":"family-chronology-smart-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/help.heredis.com\/en\/family-chronology-smart-search\/","title":{"rendered":"Family Timeline: Smart Search"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]Since Heredis 2026, Family Chronology becomes Family Timeline.<\/p>\n<p>Be it for direct-line ancestors only, or for your extended family, or, as another example, for the primary person\u2019s ancestors and descendants, you can:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>chronologically track ancestors<\/li>\n<li>trace back surnames used across time<\/li>\n<li>locate ancestors\u2019 birthplaces throughout ages<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(Windows) To access the Family Timeline feature, click on the <strong>Charts &gt; Family Timeline <\/strong>menu.<br \/>\n(Mac) To access the Family Timeline feature, click on the <strong>Documents &gt; Family Timeline <\/strong>menu.<\/p>\n<p>A window will pop open showing various persons on a timeline. To learn more about how the interface works in general, see <a href=\"https:\/\/help.heredis.com\/en\/?p=51790\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Family Timeline: Interface overview<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Smart Search enables you to scan your genealogy for persons sharing common criteria, and to manage them as a whole.<br \/>\nTake, for example, all the persons born in the same city, or bearing the same surname.<\/p>\n<p>Run the Smart Search and process the results. See also the <a href=\"https:\/\/help.heredis.com\/en\/smart-search\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Smart Search<\/a> article.<\/p>\n<p>As the Smart Search is an extremely thorough tool, we&#8217;ll use just one example here, but many other criteria can be selected.<\/p>\n<p>First example: let&#8217;s look in the entire file for all the persons bearing the SMIT surname, so as to include only those with this surname in the Family Timeline.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll select <strong>Persons &gt; Surname &gt; Begins With<\/strong> [to make sure we also include the SMITS with an S at the end] &gt; Smit.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-51964\" src=\"https:\/\/help.heredis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/chrono_ri_critetre_pc_en.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1431\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/help.heredis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/chrono_ri_critetre_pc_en.jpg 1431w, https:\/\/help.heredis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/chrono_ri_critetre_pc_en-300x58.jpg 300w, https:\/\/help.heredis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/chrono_ri_critetre_pc_en-1024x198.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/help.heredis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/chrono_ri_critetre_pc_en-768x148.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1431px) 100vw, 1431px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Search <strong>All criteria<\/strong> in <strong>the entire file<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The sentence in blue, right below, rephrases your search: \u201cI\u2019m looking for persons whose surname begins with \u201cSMIT\u201d. This is indeed what I am looking for.<\/p>\n<p>Click the <strong>Search<\/strong> button to launch the Smart Search.<\/p>\n<p>Consult the results, then click on the <strong>Family Chronology<\/strong> button in the <strong>Processing selected<\/strong> persons area in order to generate their distribution on the timeline.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-55543\" src=\"https:\/\/help.heredis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/frise_familiale_ri_ttt26-en.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1434\" height=\"887\" srcset=\"https:\/\/help.heredis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/frise_familiale_ri_ttt26-en.png 1434w, https:\/\/help.heredis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/frise_familiale_ri_ttt26-en-300x186.png 300w, https:\/\/help.heredis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/frise_familiale_ri_ttt26-en-1024x633.png 1024w, https:\/\/help.heredis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/frise_familiale_ri_ttt26-en-768x475.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1434px) 100vw, 1434px\" \/>A window opens up with the Smart Search results <u>only<\/u> displayed in the Family Timeline.<br \/>\nYou can then customize your timeline as described above in <a href=\"https:\/\/help.heredis.com\/en\/?p=51786\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Grouping<\/strong> <\/a>and <a href=\"https:\/\/help.heredis.com\/en\/?p=51790\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Interface Overview <\/strong><\/a>articles.<\/p>\n<p>The Family Timeline can also be launched from the <strong>Charts<\/strong> (Windows) or <strong>Documents<\/strong> (Mac) menu, as described before.<\/p>\n<p>To generate the Family Timeline with the results of a Smart Search for which results are still available, click on the <strong>Options<\/strong> button and choose <strong>Smart Search<\/strong>. Heredis will then display the list of persons resulting from the Smart Search still current under the <strong>Search<\/strong> tab.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-51970\" src=\"https:\/\/help.heredis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/chrono_portee_ri_pc_en.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"754\" height=\"345\" srcset=\"https:\/\/help.heredis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/chrono_portee_ri_pc_en.jpg 754w, https:\/\/help.heredis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/chrono_portee_ri_pc_en-300x137.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 754px) 100vw, 754px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Customize your timeline according to your needs.<br \/>\nYou can use any type of Smart Search to generate a Family Timeline.<\/p>\n<p>See also the articles <a href=\"https:\/\/help.heredis.com\/en\/?p=51790\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Family Timeline: Interface overview<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/help.heredis.com\/en\/?p=51786\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Family Timeline: Grouping<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/help.heredis.com\/en\/?p=55290\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Export a personal or family timeline or wheel for printing.<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since Heredis 2026, Family Chronology becomes Family Timeline.<\/p>\n<p>Be it for direct-line ancestors only, or for your extended family, or [&#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-51700","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>Family Timeline: Smart Search - 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\/en\/family-chronology-smart-search\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Family Timeline: Smart Search - Heredis Help Knowledgebase\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Since Heredis 2026, Family Chronology becomes Family Timeline.  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