A former art director and information specialist, currently an academic, intelligence analyst and a researcher who's trying to learn inline speed skating, find a squash partner, evade bad weather and eat as many rare species of tomatoes as possible. Mostly living on the north pole, fighting dragons, relative to perception. As far as genealogy goes, yes, I do that too. It’s an oddly harmonizing activity and research rocks, as always.

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Symbols

• * — born.
• †* — stillborn.
• *+ — died on day of birth.
• (*) — born illegitimate.
• ~ or ~~ — baptized, christened.
• Y — confirmed.
• o — engaged.
• oo — marriage, married.
• I oo — marital status 1.
• II oo — marital status 2, etc.
• o|o — divorced.
• o o — separated (but married).
• o-o — common law marriage; illegitimate.
• & — married (alternate), and/or together.
• † — death (the dagger).
• + — death (the plus).
• †† — this line extinct (2 x the dagger).
• ++ — this line extinct (2 x the plus).
• X — died in battle.
• +X — died in battle from wounds.
• (X) — missing in action.
• [ ] — buried.
• < — comes before.
• > — comes after.
• ♂ or □ — male.
• ♀ or o — female.
• Δ — unknown gender (delta).
• ⚪ — asexuality, sexless or genderless.
• !! — pastor.
• Xus or Xg — Christus (Christ).
• Xian or Xiang — Christian or Christianus.

Superscript

• [ ⁰ ¹ ² ³ ⁴ ⁵ ⁶ ⁷ ⁸ ⁹ ⁺ ⁻ ⁼ ⁽ ⁾ ᵃ ᵇ ᶜ ᵈ ᵉ ᶠ ᵍ ʰ ⁱ ʲ ᵏ ˡ ᵐ ⁿ ᵒ ᵖ ʳ ˢ ᵗ ᵘ ᵛ ʷ ˣ ʸ ᶻ ]

Dash, quote

• [ — ] — em dash, m dash, m-rule, etc.
• [ ― ] — quotation dash, horizontal bar, etc.
• [ – ] — en dash, n dash, n-rule, etc.
• [ − ] — minus sign.
• [ ~ ] — tilde.
• [ ⁓ or ~ ] — swung dash, resembles a lengthened tilde.
• [ ‘ ’ ] — single opening quote & single closing quote.
• [ “ ” ] — double opening quote & double closing quote.
• [ « » ] — double angle chevron, guillemets.
• [ ’, ' ] — apostrophe.

Various

• [ ← ] — leftarrow.
• [ → ] — rightarrow.
• [ ↔ ] — swingarrow.
• [ | ] — vertline.
• [ … ] — ellipsis.