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

Fig. .1 "Genealogical Symbols" - Preferences tab - activated defaults

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):
  • Female
  • Male
  • Asexuality, sexless, genderless
  • Lesbianism
  • Male homosexuality
  • Heterosexuality
  • Transgender, hermaphrodite (in entomology)
  • Transgender
  • Neuter
  • Illegitimate
  • Birth
  • Baptism/Christening
  • Engaged
  • Marriage
  • Divorce
  • Unmarried partnership
  • Buried
  • Cremated/Funeral urn
  • Killed in action
  • Extinct
  • Death



meaning symbol Unicode code point(s) name
male U+2642 Male Sign
female U+2640 Female Sign
unknown ⚪︎ U+26AA Medium White Circle
hermaphrodite U+26A4 Interlocked Male and Female Sign
neuter U+26B2 Neuter
birth * U+002A Asterisk
baptisation, christening ~ U+007E Tilde
death ✝︎ U+271D Latin Cross
burial ⚰︎ U+26B0 Coffin
cremation ⚱︎ U+26B1 Funeral Urn
stillborn ✝︎* U+0086 U+002A Latin Cross, Asterisk
born illegitimately *⃝ U+002A U+20DD Circled Asterisk
born illegitimately U+229B Circled Asterisk Operator
killed in action ⚔︎ U+2694 Crossed Swords
this line extinct U+2021 Double Dagger
approximate(ly) ± U+00B1 Plus-Minus
before < U+003C Less-Than Symbol
after > U+003E Greater-Than Symbol
engaged U+26AC Medium Small White Circle
married U+26AD Marriage Symbol
divorced U+26AE Divorce Symbol
unmarried U+26AF Unmarried Partnership 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.

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.

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

The Relationship category view to the right also shows the language agnostic labeling method created for the 5.1 version of Gramps. However, the Gramplet bars have been turned off to be less distracting. Also, the data for Sibling 2 has been changed to display how baptismal and burial dates are displayed when an explicit birth and death date has not been defined. Note that these dates of italicized.


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


See also

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


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