NC birth indexes found here!!

You are correct Brx, you can do that in Word, however, that will only be effective if there was only one person born on that day for your year. In my case, there were over 200+ people born on the same day, which means I still had to go through each of those records. I believe the way the index is sorted is by county; for instance, say your county code is 060-095, it will go through the entire year for this county, Jan 1 - Dec 31, until going on to the next county, 070-000, or whatever it may be. If aren't one of the few who already know your county, you will have to go through your birthday for each of the 100 counties to find it. This whole process will be very easy after I build a database and import all data points into that. That way, I will be able to search across a number of values (birth weight, sex, race, etc) instead of just one at a time. In response to your second question, being that I have just recently requested city/county of origin from the State and have been denied, it doesn't look too promising. I have heard of other who have requested it and received it, but that is only because the people they dealt with didn't know the current protocols. PM me with all of your info (non-id, birth date, etc), and I will help you search. jb

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 -