Asterisks in Ancestry Trees?
 

I have noticed several trees, invariably American, where asterisks are added to surnames.

Is this a convention with a particular meaning?

I noticed that too and wonder if some are using that method to show their DNA matches perhaps.

Here is an old ancestry thread about it:
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/boards/th...cestry.ancsite

Thanks, Kite!

So asterisks probably mean no independent research done. (Or, I lifted it, without questioning what asterisks meant)

I use brackets around the married surname if I don't know the maiden name.

I was using asterisks on my own tree for one particular line. I stopped working on it and when I returned I forgot what I had been doing so had to delete them all.

I've been reading comments on the FTM users group and they say that if a name is unknown to use 5 _ to denote the name. For some reason ancestry can deal with that but will search for other names as they are written and therefore wont find them.

My sister-in-law used asterisks in her tree to indicate her direct ancestors.