User:Phlox

My Moniker- I realized only after having made a boatload of articles that my moniker sounds vaguely threatening/ testosterone laden. My apologies. I am heavily interested in the Messerli family tree, and it is thought the name is occupation related- either the maker of small knives (-li is the diminutive in swiss, and messer is knife), or if these were french swiss, it could be derived from Messier- a reaper. Personally, I prefer the meaning with less heavy metal overtones, and chose the cutlery smithy meaning.

Anyway, if you have any questions or comments on pages I have edited, please post on my discussion page. The following is a cheat sheet for my use.

Name Messerly Editing Reference- Syntax of wikitext

templates
User:Phlox/new article

Nice example pages

 * tree template User:WMWillis/Tree
 * heavily researched article Captain William Henry Dobbs (1716-1781)
 * tabbed interface Thomas (Lt.) Putnam (1615-1686)

Infrastructure

 * Collapsible lists?
 * Identification of apparently distinct "Branches" as in other families eg: (Niklaus), Samuel, George, John Messerly (bef1762)
 * Update tables in List of genetic results derived from historical figures
 * Add some trees to Riggs DNA article to illustrate
 * Famous persons signatures.
 * DNA template- make it also do a straight DNA table like those at http://isogg.org/famousdna.htm
 * add red highlights for the markers with high polymorphism.

fun stuff

 * Messerly crest? or other mark?
 * Cyndi's List