Why does the UK Birth Registration Index show a "death date" instead of a "birth date"?

Melinda Tanner Bowers

All of the UK Birth Registrations in the "England and Wales, Birth Registration Index, 1837-2008" are showing birth dates as death dates:

Name	Harriot Robinson
Death Date	1843
Event Type	Birth Registration
Event Date	1843
Event Place	Stepney, London, England
Page Number	464
Volume	2

Note that the 'Event Type' is a Birth Registration, but there is a 'Death Date' in 1843. There should not be any death information in the UK Birth Registration index. All deaths are in the UK Death Registration index. As far as I can determine, this incorrectly labeled text field is a consistent issue throughout the entire UK Birth Registration Index. This error shows up on all the Birth Registrations I have checked.

Mislabeling a birth as a death has the potential cause massive problems on FamilySearch very quickly – especially less experienced researchers working on FamilySearch. Is this glaring error connected to the other recent issues with the UK Registration Indexes?

I assume the quickest fix would be to turn off the visibility of the Death Date field. Any insight?

Thanks,

Melinda Tanner Bowers

Áine.ní.Donnghaile

@Melinda Tanner Bowers
Please see this thread for an acknowledged bug that engineers are currently working on.
https://community.familysearch.org/en/discussion/188128/why-have-many-records-from-the-england-and-wales-birth-registration-index-suddenly-disappeared

Melinda Tanner Bowers

So they'll be fixing it at some point. Thanks!