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Two interlocked rings before a date, meaning a marriage.
Also known as: Interlocked rings, Two circles joined together
Two overlapping circles, drawn from the wedding rings. It marks a marriage date and, in a chart, sits on the horizontal line joining two people.
Two interlocked rings placed before a date to state that a marriage took place on it, or set on the line joining two people in a family tree.
Contexts: History
Derived directly from the pair of wedding rings, which makes it one of the few genealogical marks a reader can interpret without being told.
Older records often distinguish a religious ceremony from a civil registration, and the same symbol may stand for either. Which is recorded depends on the source the compiler worked from.
The symbol records that a marriage is attested, not which record attests it.
Two circles of equal size overlapping side by side, each passing through the other.
One marks a marriage and the other its dissolution, and the divorce mark is the marriage mark broken.