Is there a way to alert indexing post-processing to errors in the process?
The entire film containing Budapest District 4's death registrations for Dec. 1906 to Jan. 1908 has a malformed index: the mother's given name has been separated from her surname into a different person, of unknown relationship to the deceased.
Also, none of those spouses are actually "unknown" like the index says. They're nonexistent. The field should simply not exist on those entries.
Given that this is a brand-newly-published index (dated Oct. 5 and Oct. 6 on the ones I've checked), these errors are caused by the currently active post-processing system. This is a problem, and it needs to be addressed as soon as possible. Is there a way to alert the people responsible?
Yes, I have made use of the Feedback tab to report the errors, but that process is just shouting into the void, as far as I can tell.
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Hopefully you will meet with more success than has been the case in the past. Although totally different circumstances, I have not found FamilySearch willing to respond to issues that have arisen in the post-indexing phase - even if the project had just been completed, or even was ongoing.
Sadly, after volunteer indexers have applied so much effort in working on their batches, someone then comes along and muddles things up during the process of getting these records online. Feedback, or reporting issues here, seems to produce no resolution to these cases. Perhaps FamilySearch staff in this section need a little more training in order that the published results are fit for purpose.
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