Online Searchable Death Indexes for the USA

SSDI and Obituaries

Death Records Indexes For Individual States and Counties

• Alabama Death Index 1908-1959 (requires payment)

• Jefferson County: Birmingham Area Newspapers Obituaries Index, August 1957-December 1976
• Jefferson County: Birmingham Genealogical Society Research Materials includes Angwin Mortuary Index 1906-1975 & Birmingham, Alabama cemeteries
• For some additional Alabama county listings see the first link in the General Section below

• Arizona Death Index 1844-1959 & Birth Index 1855-1934 includes PDF images of the birth & death certificates (early years may be incomplete)
• For more Arizona death indexes by county, see the first link in the General Section below

• Arkansas Death Index 1914-1950 (requires payment)
• Arkansas Cemeteries by County (not complete, but has many cemeteries listed)
• For some individual Arkansas county listings see the first link in the General Section below

• California Death Index 1940-1997
• Pre-1905 California Death Index Project for assorted counties

• For more California death indexes see...
  • Online California Death Indexes, Records and Obituaries
    includes listings for Los Angeles, San Francisco, and many other California cities and counties; also has information about a California birth index

• Online Colorado Death Indexes & Records

• Connecticut Death Index 1949-2001 (requires payment) 1.4 million entries

• Delaware Death Records 1811-1933 (requires payment)
• Delaware Probate Index Database

• Florida Death Records Index 1877-1998 (requires payment) records for Florida deaths before 1917 are spotty

• For more Florida death indexes by county, see the first link in the General Section below

• Online Georgia Death Indexes & Records

• Idaho Death Index 1911-1951 (at Rootsweb)
• Idaho Death Index 1911-1951 (at Ancestry - part of an Ancestry subscription)
• Eastern Idaho Obituary Index (134,000 entries)

• Online Illinois Death Indexes & Records

• Online Chicago & Cook County, Illinois Death Records Indexes & Obituaries

• Online Indiana Death Indexes & Records

• See the first link in the General Section below

• See the first link in the General Section below

• Kentucky Death Index 1911-2000 at Ancestry part of an Ancestry subscription, which also includes:
  a KY birth index 1973-1999, a KY marriage index 1911-1999 and digitized Kentucky death certificates 1911-1953
• Kentucky Death Index 1911-2000 at Rootsweb
• Kentucky Death Index 1911-1992 from the University of Kentucky (also has marriages & divorces 1973-1993)
• Kentucky Cemetery Records Database not complete, but worth a look if you have KY ancestors

• Fayette County: Lexington Cemetery Burial Search
• Jefferson County: Cave Hill Cemetery Burials - Louisville, Kentucky
• Knox County Cemeteries

• For more Kentucky death indexes by county, see the first link in the General Section below

• Louisiana Statewide Death Index 1900-1949 (requires payment)

• Baton Rouge Newspapers Obituaries Index 1952-1959 & 1980-1991
• New Orleans, Louisiana Death Records Index, 1804-1949 (requires payment)
• New Orleans Death Index 1804-1915
• Louisiana Biography and New Orleans Obituary Index 1804-1972
• New Orleans (Orleans Parish) Probate Index 1805-1846
• New Orleans Times-Picayune Obituaries Index 1994-Jan 2005 from the Jefferson Genealogical Society
• Jefferson Parish Library Times-Picayune Obituary Notices Index 1972-1978
• Washington Parish Obituaries Indexes (Word documents)

• Maine Death Index 1960-1997 (Rootsweb)
• Maine Death Index 1960-1997 (part of an Ancestry subscripton - requires payment)
• Maine Death Index 1960-1996 (Maine State Archives)
  
  
• Cumberland County: Snow Index to Brunswick Newspapers 1853-1960 includes obituaries & marriages
• Penobscot County: Dexter, Maine Obituaries 1944-present includes full obituaries

• Maryland Death Index 1898-1944

• Baltimore City Death Index 1875-1972

• For more Maryland death indexes by county, see the first link in the General Section below

• Online Massachusetts Death Indexes & Records

• Online Michigan Death Indexes & Records

• See: Online Minnesota Vital Records Indexes - for Birth, Marriage and Death Records

• See the first link in the General Section below

• Online St. Louis and Missouri Death Records Indexes
  Includes resources for the state of Missouri, St. Louis, and many Missouri counties

• Montana Death Index 1907-2002 part of an Ancestry subscription (requires payment) not complete for some early years

• For more Montana death indexes, see the first link in the General Section below

• See the first link in the General Section below

• Carson City: Nevada Appeal Obituaries Index 1996-recent
• Douglas County Vital Records 1862-1923 (requires payment)
• Mineral County Death Index
• Pershing County Record of Deaths 1919-1936
• Storey County Death & Birth Indexes 1862-1903 (requires payment)

• New Hampshire Probate Records, 1635-1753
• Belknap County: New Hampton Cemetery Burials (PDF files)
• Conway Death Records 1887-2003 (also has birth & marriage records indexes and Cemeteries of Conway, Albany & Eaton, NH)
• Rockingham County: Hampton Cemeteries & Other Genealogy Records

• See the first link in the General Section below

• See: New Mexico Genealogy Records and Resources

• New York City and State...
  • See: Online New York Death Indexes, Records and Obituaries

• North Carolina Death Index 1968-1996 also has partial coverage for 1908-1967 (requires payment)
• For more North Carolina death indexes listed by county see: North Carolina Death Indexes, Records & Obituaries

• North Dakota Death Index 1881-present you must search in 10 year increments or less; 1881-c.1924 is incomplete

• Cass County: Fargo Forum Obituaries Database (covers 1901-1904 & 1984-1995)
• Cass County Probate Records Index 1876-1944
• Stutsman County Death Indexes 1893-1940s

• Online Ohio Death Indexes & Records
  includes full state indexes, plus obituaries and cemeteries for Cincinnati, Cleveland and many other Ohio cities and counties

• Muskogee Death and Newspaper Obituary Indexes 1918-1936 and 1954-2008
• Tulsa World & Tulsa Tribune Death Notice Index 1965-1990 with more being added
• Tulsa Funeral Home Index
• For more Oklahoma listings see the first link in the General Section below

• Oregon Death Index 1903-1998 (requires payment)
• Oregon Death Index 1903-1930
• Oregon Historical Records Index includes Portland deaths 1881-1917 and many other records

• Eastern Pennsylvania Obituaries Index 1800s-2000 (60,000 entries)
• For some Pennsylvania county listings see the first link in the General Section below

• Rhode Island Death Index 1630-1930 (requires payment - part of an Ancestry subscription)
• Historical Cemeteries Transcription Master Index (about 95% complete for 1647-1900; less than half of the 20th century gravestones have been added)

• Online South Carolina Death Indexes & Records

• South Dakota Death Index 1905-1955 (requires payment)

• Online Tennessee Death Indexes and Records

• Online Texas Death Indexes and Records
  includes a full state index 1903-2000, plus death or obituary indexes for Dallas, El Paso, Harris, Tarrant & many other Texas counties

• Utah Death Index 1905-1956 includes digitized images of the death certificates
• Utah Death Index 1905-1951 (requires payment - part of an Ancestry subscription)

• Utah State Historical Society Burials Database more than 600,000 listings from various Utah Cemeteries
• Utah Digital Newspapers

• Vermont Death Records - Index and Images 1909-2008 (requires payment)

• Online Virginia Death Indexes & Records

• Washington Death Index 1940-1996 (requires payment)

• Washington State Digital Archives includes a Social Security Death Index for the State of Washington; mortality schedules 1860-1880; WA death index 1907-1960, and some cemetery and death indexes for individual counties

• Archdiocese of Seattle Cemeteries Search Engine (Burials in Catholic Cemeteries) includes the following Cemeteries: Holyrood, Calvary, Gethsemane & St. Patrick - you must register before making a search
• Tacoma (Pierce County) Obituary Index 1984-the present (also includes some listings from 1930-1983)
• For more individual county listings for Washington see the first link in the General Section below

• West Virginia Vital Records Database (with digitized images) includes births, deaths and marriages; coverage varies by county

• Online Wisconsin Death Indexes & Records

• Albany County Obituaries Index 1868-1964
• Campbell County: Newspaper Index to Births, Marriages & Deaths
• Fremont County: Cemeteries & Funeral Home Records
• Sheridan County GenWeb Site includes birth, marriage, death & cemetery records

General Section

• Rootsweb's Cemetery Database
  user submitted data with names of burials in several cemeteries
• Veterans Affairs Burial Search
• U.S. Veterans Gravesites, ca.1775-2006 (fee-based - part of an Ancestry subscription)