Fully indexed birth records - findmypast

[Phoenix]

But now I want the marriages & deaths as well!
Best schoolfriend's parents had nice unusual names, and I'm nosy!

[kiterunner]

They're meant to be on the way soon, Phoenix (though of course they're on ancestry already). Also marriages from 1930 onwards are on The Genealogist, apparently.

[kiterunner]

Oh dear, I hate to say this, because I was so impressed by the standard of transcription on the ones I'd looked at so far, but I can see a big problem for when you're trying to solve one of those difficult problems - "Please enter a last name".
Not going to be very useful if you're searching using first name only!

[Margaret in Burton]

Originally Posted by kiterunner

Oh dear, I hate to say this, because I was so impressed by the standard of transcription on the ones I'd looked at so far, but I can see a big problem for when you're trying to solve one of those difficult problems - "Please enter a last name".
Not going to be very useful if you're searching using first name only!

Mmmm

That's where Ancestry wins then. Have you tried wild cards? I wonder if it excepts them.

[Margaret in Burton]

Yes it accepts wild card as long as you don't have the variants ticked.

[kiterunner]

Ah, so you can go "round the houses" then, like on the 1911 census search, trying A*, B*, and so on all the way through the alphabet, for the surname.