All persons are always displayed clearly distinguishing their affiliation or not to the main line. The primary person has a bigger box, centered on your screen. Background colors of the boxes change according to the affiliation or not of the person to the main line of the primary person. The other ones are usually grayed. The color adapts to the theme chosen for Heredis. Read the article Change Heredis colored theme<\/a>.<\/p>\n XXL Family View<\/em><\/p>\n Around the primary person, you will see, generation by generation:<\/p>\n Note<\/strong>: sometimes the siblings will not be displayed chronologically, unlike in other parts of the tree, because a parent\u2019s sibling(s) cannot be inserted between the two parents – otherwise the tree chart would not be legible.<\/p>\n Note<\/strong>: You can also display the descendants of other spouses, grandparents and great-grandparents.<\/p>\n You can fold the left or right panels to gain more space and reveal the XXL Family. The revealed tree includes persons you do not want to display? Click on the cogwheel “Focus” or “unfocus” in this dynamic tree for more or less details for each displayed person. In order to do that, use the mouse wheel, press the + or \u2013 button on your keyboard or click on the + and \u2013 buttons in the upper right corner of the window.<\/p>\n According to the focus level, Heredis display every person: If the displayed person is an additional spouse that you found, the information on the main union event will be displayed in the banner at the bottom of the box.<\/p>\n Note<\/strong>: Heredis memorizes all your settings to allow you to display the XXL Family format that satisfies you the most.<\/p>\n From XXL Family<\/strong>, a simple click on a displayed person allows you to put this person as the primary person or to navigate to his\/her relatives. If all family members are not shown on the screen, you can navigate in the tree by pressing and holding down the left mouse button and by moving the cursor to the right or the left, up or down, then let go of the mouse button.<\/p>\n You can also move in that tree thanks to the preview displayed at the right bottom of the navigation thumbnail. Select the pink frame with the left mouse button, by moving it, you navigate in the tree.<\/p>\n Heredis allows you to add spouses and children to the primary person directly from the XXL Family view. To do so, click on the + sign located below the primary person\u2019s box.<\/p>\n If a tick appears, you have chosen to display them; if there is no tick, they will be hidden.<\/p>\n Click on the cogwheel The XXL Family displays the main media for each person in the tree. You can decide to hide the media by clicking on the cogwheel button , then Show all media<\/strong>. If some persons are without a media, Heredis is defaulted to display a silhouette instead. You can choose to hide them or to display them again at any time from the cogwheel by clicking on Show Silhouettes<\/strong>.<\/p>\n If a tick appears, you have chosen to display them; if there is no tick, they will be hidden.<\/p>\n You can indicate in Heredis that persons are confidential using the label proposed by Heredis in the person’s entry form. If a tick appears, you have chosen to display them; if there is no tick, they will be hidden.<\/p>\n Starting with Heredis 2025, you can add personalized flags to persons. See the article Personalized flags<\/a>. If a tick appears, you have chosen to display them; if there is no tick, they will be hidden.<\/p>\n You can mark persons in the XXL family, for example to exclude them from a GEDCOM export. In the same way, you can unmark them.<\/p>\n When you click the right button on a person, you can also:<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/help.heredis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/XXL_family_pc_EN-1024x656.png\")
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\n– His\/her great-grandparents,
\n– His\/her grandparents, their brothers and sisters (great-uncles and aunts of the primary person), their other spouses,
\n– His\/her parents, their brothers and sisters (uncles and aunts of the primary person), their other spouses (father-in-law, mother-in-law of the primary person).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
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\n– His\/her spouses, brothers and sisters, half-brothers and half-sisters, stepbrothers and stepsisters, and cousins,<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\nIf one of the ancestors of the primary person (from the generation of grand-parents) has had several spouses his\/her box and that of his\/her spouses are marked by a colored band, except the one in direct-line of the primary person.<\/span> For a question of clarity of the tree, the other spouses are staggered.<\/span> So you quickly see the direct ancestors of the primary person.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/help.heredis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/xxl_family_coloredbanner_en.png\")
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\u00a0button to hide some persons: the great-grandparents, relatives, children unrelated to the primary person\u2019s bloodline, the descendants of cousins or grandchildren.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/help.heredis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/famille_xxl_option2025_pc-en.jpg\")
<\/h3>\nAvailable information<\/h3>\n
\n– his\/her main media,
\n– his\/her surnames and given names,
\n– his\/her occupation,
\n– his\/her birthdate, birthplace, deathdate and deathplace and age at the death,
\n– the icon indicating if the person is part of the Ahnentafel<\/a> line.<\/p>\nNavigation<\/h3>\n
\nAs everywhere in the software, you can also navigate from a person to another thanks to the Navigation<\/strong> panel or from the Person\u2019s<\/strong> index by double-clicking on one of them.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/help.heredis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/xxl_family_navigation_panel_en.png\")
<\/p>\nAdding spouses and children to the primary person<\/h3>\n
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<\/p>\nDisplay options<\/h3>\n
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to access the options.<\/p>\n<\/h4>\nHide or show media and silhouettes<\/h4>\n
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<\/h3>\nShow or hide confidential persons<\/h4>\n
\nStarting with Heredis 2025, you can display or hide confidential persons in the XXL family.
\nClick on the cogwheel .
\nClick on the Show confidential persons<\/strong>.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/help.heredis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/famille_xxl_masquer_confidentiels_pc-en.jpg\")
<\/p>\nShow or hide personnalized flags<\/h4>\n
\nThe XXL family allows you to show or hide personalized flags for persons in the tree.
\nClick on the cogwheel .
\nClick on the Show flags<\/strong>.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/help.heredis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/famille_xxl_etiquettes_pc-en.jpg\")
<\/p>\nMark persons<\/h4>\n
\nClick on the cogwheel .
\nClick on the Mark persons > Declare marked.<\/strong><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/help.heredis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/famille_xxl_marquer_pc-en.jpg\")
<\/p>\nThe other actions in the contextual menu<\/h3>\n
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\u00a0button displayed in this view, to complete the direct ascendance.<\/p>\n