Yellow Triangle on Ancestry

[millymcb]

Hi all....


When you search on A******y and it has a little yellow triangle against the name...how does that get there?   I've seen ones which have been corrected or added to by people and you used to be able to open it up to see who did it.   Is the yellow triangle different.   

The record I am looking at has an alternative name for a married woman - and gives her maiden name (which is easy to work out as she is daughter of the head of the household and there is also an unmarried sister under the maiden name).  Did the transcriber just decide to be helpful or has it been corrected by a researcher?


And am I write in thinking that sometimes there is s symbol which lets you see who made ammendments...? It's just that I have not seen it for a while.

Just curious with nothing better to occupy my mind

Thanks

Milly

[Tati]

Hi Milly,

I think the yellow triangles are
- either corrections made by ancestry themselves (typically, when there's an inlaw staying in the household)
- or corrections submitted by a member before a certain date (when they introduced the option to contact the correction submitter). Now these latter corrections have a square with a plus sign (or something similar) 

 

[millymcb]

Maybe it is an old one. It has been there for a while as I remember seeing it early last year.   The original doesn't give the maiden name - someone has just made the assumption and added it.  I didn't realise they did that - I thought it was jsut or corrections not just for extra bits of assumed info. 

Thanks


Milly

[chinakay]

I asked the same question on the Canada board, and a RCer had this to say about the small triangles that are not corrections by someone you can contact:

"The yellow triangles seem to be where the site's own transcribers thought the name could be read more than one way. " -Gene-ee-us

Cheers,
China

[Tati]

Hi China 

"The yellow triangles seem to be where the site's own transcribers thought the name could be read more than one way. " -Gene-ee-us

I think this is correct for recent additions. However I have submitted a few corrections myself over the years and I observe that the oldest ones come up with a triangle, whereas the more recent ones have the blue contact thingy.

 

[Suttonrog]

If you hover your pointer over the triangle a message pops up and explains

Rog

[Nick29]

Maybe it is an old one. It has been there for a while as I remember seeing it early last year.   The original doesn't give the maiden name - someone has just made the assumption and added it.  I didn't realise they did that - I thought it was jsut or corrections not just for extra bits of assumed info. 

Some things can be safely assumed.  For instance, a woman whose married name is Freda White living in a house with her brother Fred Brown....... it can safely be assumed that her maiden name was Freda Brown.  Quite often people make these assumptions based on information gleaned from census pages, and then submit them as alternative names.

[millymcb]

Thanks...I just wondered (out of curiosity) ...as there are triangles and then the other symbol for corrections which has more info on it.   


Milly

[lizdb]

Some things can be safely assumed.  For instance, a woman whose married name is Freda White living in a house with her brother Fred Brown....... it can safely be assumed that her maiden name was Freda Brown.  Quite often people make these assumptions based on information gleaned from census pages, and then submit them as alternative names.

Until you find that they were actually half bro and sis, and Freda was from her mums first marriage to Julian Blenkinsop-Smythe, and Fred was from her second marriage to Joe Brown.

Too risky in ALL circumstances to assume ANYTHING