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1. Canonical Families. A catalog of various canonical families organized according to the likelihood that they are or aren't Pure-bloods, with plausible etymologies and arguments for their placement in this or that category.
2. The Sacred Twenty-eight. Plausible etymologies and origins for each family listed in the Pure-blood Directory, a map of (one possible) approximate geographic arrangement of those families across Great Britain and Ireland, and some other small notes and minor speculation.
3. Given Names for British and Irish Characters. Resources for Medieval names, including the Dictionary of Medieval Names from European Sources. Guidelines for diminutive names and other variants. 25 masculine English names, 25 feminine English names. In-progress.
4. Constellations and Celestial Bodies. Names of 88 modern constellations; all
planets in the Solar System (plus Pluto); all moons discovered by 1914; various stars, including the twenty
brightest; and numerous asteroids. Names are organized according to whether they are masculine, feminine,
unisex. Includes the hemisphere and season (where applicable) of each constellation, and provides alternate
French and/or Latin forms (where applicable) and their gender (where different from the English
usage).
5. Weekdays and Months. The days of the week, in five major languages of Great Britain and Ireland — Cornish, English, Irish, Scots Gaelic, and Welsh — as well as French and Latin. The months of the year, in the aforementioned languages, as well as "Broad Scots" (a Scottish dialect or language derived from Early Middle English) and the French Revolutionary calendar.
6. Names for French Characters. How French names work, with many examples of given names and surnames, and additional examples of surnames constructed from nouns.
7. Names for Non-human and Part-human Characters. Sections for "hags" and "werewolves" in-progress.