What do you think about the idea I submitted to enable tagging on Birth Index pages?

Hi everyone! 👋

I recently submitted a feature request to the FamilySearch development team, and I would love to hear the community’s opinion about it.

Here’s the idea:

Currently, we can create and correct tags on Birth Record pages, but we cannot tag names directly on the Birth Index pages — even though these index pages are often much clearer and easier to read.

On a single Birth Index page, we often find 20–30 names, each pointing to a page/folio in the Birth Record book. But since tagging isn’t available in the index, we depend only on tagging inside the record pages — where handwriting is often difficult and automatic tagging fails or produces errors.

📌 My proposal:
Allow volunteers to create name tags directly on Birth Index pages (manually or automatically), including:

• Name
• Parent(s) (if listed)
• Page/Folio reference
• Record type: Birth
• Optional link to the specific record page

✅ This would:
• Add many accurate names faster
• Reduce reliance on hard-to-read record pages
• Improve data quality and discoverability
• Increase contributions across entire collections

💭 What do you think?

Would tagging at the index level be useful for you too?
Have you experienced challenges with incorrect or missing tags in Birth Records?
Do you have ideas that could make this even better before the team reviews it?

Thanks so much for your feedback! 🙏