  The main result of the paper is a classification of singularities of complex
skew-symmetric matrix families of even size which are simple under a natural
equivalence relation. The classification is obtained by appropriate suspensions
of simple families of arbitrary square matrices classified by Bruce and Tari.
The suspensions we are using are based on the embedding of a space of arbitrary
square matrices into the space of skew-symmetric matrices of twice the size. We
also show that similar relations embed Bruce's classification of simple
symmetric matrix families into the Bruce-Tari simple list. Our constructions
introduce a unified approach to all three simple classifications.
