Helen, The DC birth records that I've obtained over the years don't have the name of the child on them. They are apparently filed under the parents' names, and the child's name is "infant male" or "infant female". Even if you provide the exact birth date of the child, they don't seem to be able to find it without the parents' names. I suspect that these records have not been indexed except by the parents' names, which seems strange to us in this age of computerization, but remember that the records weren't created in the first place with future genealogists in mind. Also remember that the DC government is perpetually on the brink of bankruptcy, and the indexing of early birth records is probably pretty low on the priority list. Patsy Lowe