NC birth indexes found here!!

Here's the link to find NC birth indexes from 1968 - 2001. [url]http://www.irss.unc.edu/ncvital/bfd1down.html[/url]I would advise that you choose the tab-delimited option when downloading your birth year, as it will be much easier to follow the 30+ columns of information. You also have to choose between the Uncompressed and GNU-zipped file format. If you have a high speed connection, Uncompressed won't take too long, and you won't have to worry about unzipping it. If you don't have a high-speed connection, go for the zipped version and use Winzip to unzip it. After downloading the file, go to the documentation page and choose your birth year range. The codes on this page will help you understand all the codes including in the file.[url]http://www.irss.unc.edu/ncvital/dochome.html[/url]To open the file, I would recommend that you right-click on the file whereever you save it and choose "Open With". After this, choose Wordpad to view the file. Be warned, this file will be quite large. Records are categorized according to county and then by date of birth. To find out the county code (which is included in the first few columns in the file), go here ->[url]http://www.irss.unc.edu/ncvital/intronew.html#exhibit[/url]The first three exhibits on this page (A1, A2, A3) tell you what codes match up with what counties. 1968 - 1974 counties are in exhibit A1, 1975 - 1979 are in exhibit A2, and 1980 - 2001 are in exhibit A3. If you need help with anything, please let me know, as I have been able to wade through 6000 pages of this stuff to find my birth record, which I previously had no knowledge of. Good luck -