Customize the Genealogical Symbols lookup table

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This article is not intended for casual use. The Genealogical Symbols feature was a recent addition in the Gramps 5.1 version. Some function are not yet configurable through the interface.

Genealogical Symbols

Allows you to use Genealogical symbols instead of text abbreviations in reports, charts and the Gramps interface.

This tab gives you the possibility to use one font which is able to show all genealogical symbols. (Once configured see: Prerequisite to use Genealogical Symbols)

If you select the "use symbols" checkbox, Gramps will use the selected font if it exists.

This can be useful if you want to add phonetic in a note to show how to pronounce a name or if you mix multiple languages like Greek and Russian.

You can only configure the death symbol from this tab.

List of Genealogical Symbols shown (listed in order shown at bottom screenshot):
Fig. .1 "Genealogical Symbols" - Preferences tab - activated defaults
meaning symbol Unicode code point(s) name
female U+2640 Female Sign
male U+2642 Male Sign
gender unknown ⚪︎ U+26AA Medium White Circle
Lesbianism U+26A2 Doubled female sign
Male homosexuality U+26A3 Doubled male sign
Heterosexuality U+26A4 Interlocked female and male sign
hermaphrodite U+26A4 Interlocked Male and Female Sign
transgender U+26A6 Male with stroke sign
neuter U+26B2 Neuter
born illegitimately U+229B Circled Asterisk Operator
birth * U+002A Asterisk
baptism, christening ~ U+007E Tilde
engaged U+26AC Small White Circle
married U+26AD Marriage Symbol
divorced U+26AE Divorce Symbol
unmarried U+26AF Unmarried Partnership Symbol
burial ⚰︎ U+26B0 Coffin
cremation ⚱︎ U+26B1 Funeral Urn
killed in action ⚔︎ U+2694 Crossed Swords
this line extinct U+2021 Double Dagger
death ✝︎ U+271D Latin Cross
Not included in Preview
stillborn ✝︎* U+0086 U+002A Latin Cross, Asterisk
born illegitimately *⃝ U+002A U+20DD Circled Asterisk
approximate(ly) ± U+00B1 Plus-Minus
before < U+003C Less-Than Symbol
after > U+003E Greater-Than Symbol


Customizing the date labels

Fig. .2 Relationships Category view in Gramps version 5.0

Prior to the Genealogical Symbols feature being implemented, birth and death data were explicitly labeled in English for the Active Person. This data was labeled with a simple abbreviation of label where more compact display was needed for the other relatives.

Data text label abbreviated
birth Birth b.
baptism bap.
christening chr.
death Death d.
burial Burial bur.
married Marriage mar.
divorced Divorce div.


The Relationship category view to the right shows the superseded English label method.

Fig. .3 Relationships Category view in Gramps version 5.1

It was determined that these English labels did not encourage localization. An arbitrary set of symbols had been proposed that was deemed more universal than English terms and abbreviations.

Data abbreviated
birth *
baptism ~
christening ~
death +
burial d.
married
divorced

The Relationship category view to the right shows the language agnostic labeling method created for the 5.1 version of Gramps.

Fig. .4 "Genealogical Symbols" - Relationship View - default display for version 5.1

The Relationship category view to the right also shows the language agnostic labeling method created for the 5.1 version of Gramps. (The Gramplet bars have been turned off to reduce distracting clutter.) The data for Sibling 2 has been changed to display the baptismal and burial date text styling variants. These are only shown in this view when an explicit date for birth (or death) is missing. Note that these dates are italicized to highlight that they are not actual birth or death dates.


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Fig. .5 "Genealogical Symbols" - Relationship View - text substitutions


Fig. .6 "Genealogical Symbols" - Relationship View - enabled defaults


Fig. .7 "Genealogical Symbols" - Relationship View - Alpha & Omega text


Genealogy symbols preferences

Advanced Manipulation of Settings - manually editing the gramps.ini preferences file stored in the Gramps version sub-folder of the user directory

Initially, the preferences section related to Genealogical symbols might be created with commented out lines:

[utf8]
;;available-fonts=[]
;;death-symbol=13
;;in-use=0
;;selected-font=
Name symbol
identifier
Displays Gramps
code
DEATH_SYMBOL_NONE 0
DEATH_SYMBOL_X x 1
DEATH_SYMBOL_SKULL 2
DEATH_SYMBOL_ANKH 3
DEATH_SYMBOL_ORTHODOX_CROSS 4
DEATH_SYMBOL_CHI_RHO 5
DEATH_SYMBOL_LORRAINE_CROSS 6
DEATH_SYMBOL_JERUSALEM_CROSS 7
DEATH_SYMBOL_STAR_CRESCENT 8
DEATH_SYMBOL_WEST_SYRIAC_CROSS 9
DEATH_SYMBOL_EAST_SYRIAC_CROSS 10
DEATH_SYMBOL_HEAVY_GREEK_CROSS 11
DEATH_SYMBOL_LATIN_CROSS 12
DEATH_SYMBOL_SHADOWED_LATIN_CROSS 13
DEATH_SYMBOL_MALTESE_CROSS 14
DEATH_SYMBOL_STAR_OF_DAVID 15
DEATH_SYMBOL_DEAD Dead 16
[utf8]
available-fonts=['Segoe UI Symbol']
death-symbol=12
in-use=1
selected-font='Segoe UI Symbol'

See also

Relationship view - * and oo
Issue with 5.1.2 on Ubuntu 18.04