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A stroke through a square or circle meaning the person has died.
Also known as: Crossed out symbol, Line through a square in a family chart
A single diagonal stroke drawn across an individual's shape. Deliberately not a change of shape, so that a deceased person's place in the inheritance pattern stays exactly as legible as anyone else's.
A single diagonal stroke drawn across an individual's shape, denoting that the person has died.
Contexts: Medicine
Struck rather than removed or redrawn, so that the individual keeps their place and their shading in the inheritance pattern. A pedigree is mostly a record of people who are dead.
Distinct from the double stroke used to mark a line of descent as terminated, which is a statement about the family line rather than about the individual.
A square or circle with a single straight diagonal line drawn across it from lower left to upper right, extending slightly beyond the outline.