Record indexed as wrong type
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QGQ8-H7SK
Birth of Florencio Porfirio Lorenzo /Contreras/, in Tultepec, State of Mexico, Mexico, 26 Jan 1906.
This is indexed as a death record, and it's true that the volume it occurs in generally contains death records. However, this particular record is clearly a birth record: It begins "Nacimiento..." (birth) and contains the phrase "en su casa abitacion [sic] dío á luz su esposa..." (in his house habitation gave birth his wife...". That might be why "No pasó" (it didn't happen) is scrawled across this record and the previous one, and why the certificate-number for the next one jumps back to 40 from 42 on this one.
But the relationship is wrong, too. I found this as a suggestion for Paulino Contreras, and the index lists Paulino and his wife María Maura /Aguilar/ as parents of a child Florencio Porfirio, but what the record actually says is that the child's father, also the declarant, was Vicente /Contreras/ (without naming the mother), and that the child's paternal grandparents were Paulino /Contreras/ and María Maura /Aguilar/, and that the child's maternal grandparents were Hilario /Martines/ and María de Jesus /Gutierres/, both from Ozontilla.
Perhaps I could use "Edit" to fix the father-name and blank out the mother-name, but I don't see an option to change the record-type. So my suggestion for this forum is that there should be such an option, or some other way to report the problem with the record or submit it for reindexing.
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You are correct that you cannot edit the "Event Type" field on this record. I believe the current problem in doing this relates to the fact that you cannot highlight this on the record image.
However, even if you were able to do this, it would still mean all other records in this collection would remain wrongly labelled as deaths instead of births.
Reporting the issue here is about as far as you can go. Unfortunately (and from past experience) you are unlikely to receive a FamilySearch acknowledgment of the error in question, so would have to recheck (say in six month's time) to see if this had been corrected. Sadly, there are so many of similar cases (and, as you say, no really direct way of reporting them) that it does seem unlikely that this will be addressed.
True, most other websites would fix a similar problem, but FamilySearch argues that it (unlike large, commercial concerns) has very limited (largely voluntary) resources, so has to prioritise its efforts within those constraints. (Ideally, of course, given other problems, too, this collection should be re-indexed.)
If / when adding this as a source to the individual to whom it applies, make a clear note (amending the heading, if necessary, to make it clear this applies to his birth, not his death, as well as highlighting the other errors.
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