Editing the index of a restricted record

Áine.ní.Donnghaile

@SerraNola
I need your kind assistance at your convenience. This is certainly not a rush item.

The index for https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2WD3-69Q?lang=en has been incorrectly edited in the recent past. I have a copy I printed several years ago, without the incorrect note. I don't have edit access even when I am at my FSC.

The record is a Manhattan, NYC death certificate, #6019, from 1890, for the first husband of my great-grandmother.
There's a color copy available on MyHeritage, which is somewhat easier to read.

https://www.myheritage.com/research/record-20808-3000149/thomas-nealis-in-new-york-city-deaths

The place of death reads

North River foot of 37th St

The incorrect edit added reads

North Room Ft 757 Street

An additional sentence has been added to that Note that does not appear anywhere on the certificate. There are certainly discrepancies in the certificate; however, adding information to the index that does not appear in the original is counter to the rules of indexing I learned.

Current index

Index as it appeared when I printed it in 2017.

Thank you.

SerraNola

There's a reason you can't edit from the FSC. The records for this collection are linked (browseable), but not attached in the new viewer. In other words, from the image you see "This page is not indexed" so there is no way to edit. The same is true for me and I can't think of any workaround that wouldn't create a duplicate.

The underlying record data verifies the correct film number, so I will need to get engineering to take a look. It's not just this one record, it's the whole collection.

Áine.ní.Donnghaile

Thanks, @SerraNola
I knew why I couldn't edit, but I thought perhaps you had access. Thanks for looking.

The bigger question for me is: how did someone make that incorrect edit?

Thanks!

SerraNola

I do have access, but if the record is not linked to the image it can't be edited by anyone.

I can't say for certainty if the records were ever attached as they also do not show up at the bottom in the old viewer. All (or most) of the records in this collection have the street address of the place of death as a note and I would think they were added through AI transcription. However, the additional comment about the impossible burial/death dates seems more likely to have been added by a human. Without the editor, we can't view the change log.

I'll let you know what the engineers say. It may be like the Legacy collections, where the index was created separately and has not yet been completely matched to the image.

Áine.ní.Donnghaile

Thank you for the follow-up.