More personographic detail: demographic and personal qualities

  <person xml:id="person_julia_flanders">
    <persName>Flanders, Julia Hammond</persName>
    <birth when="1965-02-21">
      <placeName ref="#l_new_york">New York</placeName>
    </birth>
    <death notBefore="2023"/>
    <faith>undecided</faith>
    <langKnowledge>
      <langKnown tag="en">first language</langKnown>
      <langKnown tag="fr">reading, writing, speaking</langKnown>
      <langKnown tag="la">slight reading knowledge</langKnown>
      <langKnown tag="de">slight reading and speaking knowledge</langKnown>
      <langKnown tag="it">slight reading and speaking knowledge</langKnown>
      <langKnown tag="es">slight reading knowledge</langKnown>
    </langKnowledge>
    <nationality>US citizen</nationality>
    <socecStatus scheme="#wwp_ses" code="#r4"/>
    <occupation scheme="#wwp_occ" code="#editor">Journal editor</occupation>
    <occupation scheme="#wwp_occ" code="#manager">Project director</occupation>
    <occupation scheme="#wwp_occ" code="#faculty">Adjunct faculty</occupation>
    <trait type="eye_color">
      <label>eye color</label>
      <desc>green</desc>
    </trait>
    <state type="marital_status">
      <label>marital status</label>
      <desc>partnered</desc>
    </state>
  </person>

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Julia Flanders was born in New York in 1965 and as of the time of writing hasn’t died yet. She’s a green-eyed US citizen with a common-law partner, and while she doesn’t profess any specific religious faith she is still considering those issues. She works in a variety of jobs including journal editor, project director, and adjunct faculty. She can get by as a traveler in a variety of languages including German and Italian, and she can read text (with difficulty and a dictionary) in Latin, German, Italian and Spanish. Her spoken and written French is passable and she’s a native English speaker.

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