What do these two icons on the source linker mean ?
I.e. the question mark note with turned up corner, and the double up/down arrow. I can find no explanation of them in the help.
The record in question is the death record of his wife, Eileen ( https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV9V-CG11 )
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I've only just noticed that this particular source is actually entitled:
Michael Corbett in entry for Eileen Baranowski, "Illinois, Cook County Deaths, 1871-1998"
It looks as if there are separate 'Sources' for each person mentioned in the actual source, i.e. the death record itself. So maybe the icons are something to do with that ?
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The icon with the question mark indicates that this person in the record has an unspecified gender. If the record had specified a gender, it would have been pink (if female) or blue (if male).
The icon with the up and down arrows is an indicator that you can drag that icon to reposition that record person to be lined up with a tree person (or if it is already lined up with a tree person, to line it up with a different tree person).
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If you hover your mouse over the up/down arrow icon, you will see the tool tip explaining that you can drag the reference to another position in the source linker.
To get a better idea of what information is found in the Cook County Illinois Death Certificate, you can view/download the record by viewing at an Affiliate Library or FSC.
You're viewing that record in a rotated position - from the point of view of Walter, Eileen's husband. If you click on Eileen's name, the record rotates to put her name in the primary slot, and it may be clearer.
Walter was probably the informant, as well as being listed as her spouse. That explains his name being listed twice. Again, seeing the record would be beneficial in clarifying that information. There's no place in the source linker to attach him twice (no informant slot).
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Alan and Áine have explained the icons in your main question, but let me address the confusion you expressed in your comment, by explaining a little bit about indexes and the sources they generate.
On FS (and the other genealogy sites that offer sources), indexes are treated as the primary records, with the images they came from treated as just connected files. This is exactly backwards from genealogical best practice, but it's driven by a very basic practical consideration: indexes make the data computer-parseable. (Yes, they're working on getting the computer to read handwriting, but it still needs a lot of human hand-holding. We're not yet at the point of OCR for handwritten records, and even for printed/typed text, OCR-based search still has its limitations.)
The database of indexed records is person-centric: the primary entity is always a particular person. The other participants in the same event, or the other members of the same group, are generally linked in the index with that primary person. (There are some indexes that basically treat every name in the index as a separate primary entity. Luckily they're rare.) The title on the index detail page and on the source referring to the index entry will always be in terms of that primary person: "Q P in entry for X Y".
In Source Linker, the current focus person may not necessarily be the primary person in the index, which can get a bit confusing until you get used to how things are arranged. It's especially "fun" when the index got the relationships wrong and they can't be corrected (which is most often the case). But Source Linker is flexible enough that even in those cases, it can be used for attaching everyone in the index to the correct Tree profile. It just may take a few thwacks upside its head. :-)
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Thank you all. That now makes sense.
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