For M and D having the actual quarter in full hits list is important

Could you please ask Search team to look at this
so that results are consistent across databases

Of course It is good that deaths has calculated birth year

Could you please also get them to look at
England & Wales, Death Index: 1916-2005

The years 1916-1968 do not show any birth year and yet the age at death is in the detail. The Deaths in the other database 1837-1915 can be searched with birth year but this does not work in 1916-1968 block which must make many customers think their ancestor is not there.

Also the Year of death registration shows BUT not the months – yet the heading is “Death Registration Month/Year”

Please have the structure of this database checked and re-built as needed.
It really does not look very professional.

Old Search with Exact ticked

London Marriages
search for name John Lankshear
result 48 records
I expected this to be for any marriage of a John Lankshear
but only 6 of the 48 are for a John and of course also another 6 repeated as spouse name is John Lankshear.
that leaves 36 which are not John Lankshear getting married
of these in 8 the father is John Lankshear – if I wanted these I could put John Lankshear in the father field.
The remaining 24 are where the spouse not a Lankshear has the name John or the father of not a Lankshear is John

which include Charles John Causley 25 Dec 1915 to Lottie Ellen Lankshear
very good to see my Aunt’s marriage but how does it meet a search for name John Lankshear – her father is Thomas.

In new search same search has 24 results – at least the marriages when no John Lankshear is involved are not shown BUT the marriages in which John is a father are shown. This is better than the results in Old Search but still conflicts with what the fields seem to mean.

of Course my name is fairly unique but when you start getting into more widely used surnames the results list are large. The precision I expect from the search is lost.

One more example London BMB 1538-1812
Charlotte Parker gives 54 results in New Search – 9 are where a Charlotte is mother.

In Old Search results are 63 – extras seem to be where mother is Charlotte but not shown as Parker. Presumably Old Search assumes mother is a Parker and adds it in. This seems strange that new search does not show these.
There is also a Charlotte Shuttleton marriage to a John Parker. Ok She becomes Mrs Parker

Please can we fix the BMD search so that name means the main person in the event and father, mother etc are not added to the results but I wanted marriages of Charlotte Parker not those who become Parker