Marriage Records Index is listing the bride as male and the groom as female
In the England Yorkshire Parish Registers 1538-2016. A number of the marriages indexed list the bride or spinster as male and the bachelor or groom as female.
For example the marriage of Mary Selina Dearden to Horace Walter Howe taken from FHL DGS 101448951 image 29 lists Mary Selina Dearden as Male and Horace Walter Howe as female in the index. The link to the index is https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:665V-LDV5
This is only one example
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This is a known issue. Whether FamilySearch will consider this as a priority amongst so much other corrective action that needs to be undertaken in relation to its records is another matter.
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This will not be fixed internally, especially since you have the capability to edit the record. Male is assigned to the first person listed. In this case, enter Horace Walter Howe under name, list his residence, birth year, and father's name. Then enter Mary Selina Dearden under spouse's name along with her residence, birth year, and father.
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@Paula Paradise21 You cannot edit this record since it was indexed incorrectly. In the future, there should be a way to edit that record, but sadly it is in the future.
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@Paul W My bad. It is a record restricted to church membership and I forgot to look from my public account.
The reason I suggested the switch is because the index fields were set up with the primary person being male and the spouse being female. Unfortunately, this was indexed twice, once for the husband as the primary, and once with the wife being primary, causing the gender error.
@Paula Paradise21 I fixed what I could but swapping does not let me address the ages or occupations that were originally indexed wrong. Hopefully this can be taken care of when the ability to edit every field is more widely accessible.
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