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Hi,

Here three excellent sites that can answer your questions. The first site you can search through and find anything. The second site talks of the use of semicolons. There are four rules governing their use.

https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/596/1/

http://www.grammerbook.com/punctuation/semicolon.asp

Your question about separating lists of things, I believe your are talking about elements in a series.
Use a coma to separate three or Elements in A Series.

A series in a list which includes three or more items of the same parallel structure of words, phrases, or clauses with a single conjunction joining the last element. The items all be equal in structure: all verbs, adverbs plus a noun, all nouns, all phrases, or clauses.

http://www.dailywritingtips..com/5-parallelism-problems-in-in-line-lists

Winnie Kay offers a Comma Sense class here at WDC at The New Horizon Academy

Hope this helps,

Kristina