Transcription Error. Fix please?

Kenner Tobias Hartman

On a Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Record, 1626-2001, (linked below), there is a transcription error for the birth date and parents for Horace Ballou. His birth date should be “20 Apr 1895” and his parents “Horace B Ballou” and “Sarah E Ballou.”

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4FK-1QS

N Tychonievich

@Kenner Tobias Hartman Unfortunately, the Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001 record collection does not have an option to edit indexing errors. Since you can't fix the errors, you have a couple of options.

You can attach the record as a source in Family Tree and make note of the errors in your reason to attach notes.

You can click to view the original document. In the top-right of the image viewer, click Source Box and add the record to your source box. From there, you can attach the document image as a source, thus bypassing the errors in the index.

Here are links to some Help Center articles that can give you more details:

https://www.familysearch.org/en/help/helpcenter/article/how-to-find-the-add-to-source-box-link

https://www.familysearch.org/en/help/helpcenter/article/from-my-source-box-how-do-i-attach-a-source-to-a-person-in-family-tree

https://www.familysearch.org/en/help/helpcenter/article/how-do-i-attach-source-from-source-box