Is this a transcription error?

RondaF

I am looking at Film 4279297 Image 571.

This is the death record of Daniel Curtin. It looks clear that he died on March 3, 1900 and it was recorded on March 5, 1900. If you look at the typed transcription on the bottom of the page, it says the event happened on 16 Jun 1893. I don't understand where this date came from. In fact, looking at all of these dates compared to the original record, I don't understand where they came from.

There is a death index on Film 8500570  Image 2905 that supports the date of March 3rd.

(You may need to be at a center to view these records)

Could this be a transcription error?

Maile L

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FHNQ-L48 is definitely wrong. The image shows the register with the very clear date 1900 in two different places. (The handwriting is beautiful.) All of the information on the transcript is accurate to the information listed in the death register with the exception of the event date.

Unfortunately there is no way to currently edit the transcription. The best option is to attach https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FHNQ-L48 and make a note of the transcription error, pointing out the actual date of death and mentioning the incorrect date affects the estimated birth year. You can edit the source information so that the date is correct in the source list.

For an example, please see https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/sources/L79T-BZR. I attached the first record on the image in question to Michael Patrick Shea L79T-BZR. After attaching the record using the Source Linker, I edited the Source by clicking on the title, choosing EDIT and changing the "Event Date". I added the correct transcription in "Notes" and provided an explanation of the error in "Reasons This Source is Attached"

Julia Szent-Györgyi

I can't see that film (no FHC that I can get to when it's open), but it occurs to me to wonder: do the names on the Image Index tab match what's actually on the image, or are they unrelated to it, too? It sometimes happens that the index-to-image association goes wrong (probably due to a typo somewhere in the metadata), so that the index entries shown at the bottom actually go with a different image (usually the previous or next, but sometimes off by more than that).

If the names are correct but the dates aren't, then it sounds like some sort of weird indexing or post-processing error. But in any case, the important part is that you've seen the actual record, and that's what you should use. The index is just a finding aid, and even if it's wrong, it served its purpose.

(Pedantry alert: it's not a transcription unless it includes very nearly the entire document. What you see on Image Index tabs, and what Search - Records looks at and lists in its results, are indexes: extracts of just some key parts of the document to aid in finding the right document. Oh, and yes, there are sometimes indexes of indexes.)

RondaF

The information in the bottom section is correct for everyone and all the information is correct except for that one date of the event.

Áine Ní Donnghaile

If it is the same death register that is available on Ancestry dot com, the top of the page, where the year would be listed, is cut off in much of that series. When that happens, it's easy for the wrong year to be assigned.