Online Searchable Death Indexes for the USA

Social Security Death Index (SSDI)

Death Records Indexes For Individual States and Counties

• Alabama Death Index 1908-1959 (at Ancestry/requires payment)

• Jefferson County: Birmingham Area Newspapers Obituaries Index coverage varies by newspaper
• For some additional Alabama county listings see the first link in the General Section below

• Arizona Death Index 1870 to 75 years ago, and Birth Index 1855 to 50 years ago includes PDF images of the birth and 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 Certificates, 1914-1969 at (Ancestry/requires payment) includes digitized images of the death certificates
• For some individual Arkansas county listings see the first link in the General Section below

• Online California Death Records, Indexes, and Obituaries includes listings for Los Angeles, San Francisco, and many other California cities and counties
• Also see: Places to find California Birth, Marriage, Divorce, and Death Indexes Online

• Online Colorado Death Indexes & Records

• Connecticut Death Index 1949-2012 (at Ancestry/requires payment) 1.4 million entries
• Connecticut: Hale Cemetery Inscriptions 1675-1934 (at Ancestry/requires payment) over 1.2 million transcribed headstone inscriptions from over 2,000 Connecticut cemeteries
• Connecticut Death Records Index, 1897-2001 (Connecticut State Library)

• Delaware Death Records 1861-1933 (at Ancestry/requires payment)
• Delaware Probate Index Database

• Florida Death Records Index 1877-1998 (at Ancestry/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 1890-1964 (requires payment - part of an Ancestry subscription)
• Idaho Death Certificates 1911-1937
• Idaho Death Certificates Index 1938-1961
• Ada County: Idaho Statesman Obituary Index, 1957-2017; from the Boise Public Library

• 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 (requires payment) part of an Ancestry subscription, which also includes a Kentucky birth index 1973-1999, a Kentucky marriage index 1911-1999 and the next item...
• Digitized Kentucky Death Certificates 1911-1965 (indexed) (at Ancestry/requires payment) includes scanned images of the death certificates; also has some death registers prior to 1911

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

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

• Louisiana Statewide Death Index, 1819-1964 (at Ancestry/requires payment)
• Louisiana Death Records Index, 1911-1970 Louisiana Secretary of State; includes some earlier entries; you can order copies of the death records for a fee

• Baton Rouge Advocate Obituaries Index 1952-1991
• New Orleans, Louisiana Death Records Index, 1804-1949 (at Ancestry/requires payment)
• New Orleans Death Index, 1804-1915
• New Orleans Obituary Index, 1804-1972
• Louisiana, Orleans Parish Estate Files, 1804-1846 at FamilySearch
• Washington Parish Obituaries Indexes (Word documents)

• Maine Death Index, 1960-1997 (at Ancestry - requires payment)
• Maine Death Records Index, 1960-2009 (free)

• Maryland Death Certificate Indexes, 1973-2014 PDFs for each year
• Baltimore City Death Index, 1875-1880 and 1943-1949

• For more Maryland death indexes, 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, 1907-2015 (at Ancestry/requires payment)

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

• See the first link in the General Section below

• Nevada Death Records, 1911-1965 (at Ancestry/requires payment) includes digitized copies of the death certificates
• Nevada Death Index, 1980-2012 (at Ancestry/requires payment)

• Carson City Recorder Genealogy - Birth & Death records Indexes, 1887-1957
• Douglas County Vital Records, 1862-1923 (at Ancestry/requires payment)
• Mineral County Death Index
• Storey County Death & Birth Indexes, 1862-1903 (at Ancestry/requires payment)

• New Hampshire Death and Disinterment Records, 1754-1947 (at Ancestry/requires payment) includes digitized copies of the death certificates, 1901-1947
• New Hampshire Death Records, 1654-1947 (from FamilySearch/free)
• New Hampshire Death Certificates, 1938-1959 (from FamilySearch/free; includes digitized copies of the death certificates)

• Hillsborough County: Manchester Cemetery Records, 1800-2007 at FamilySearch
• Strafford County: Dover Public Library Obituaries Index

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

• 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
  • Also see: Places to Find New York Birth, Marriage, and Death Indexes on the Internet for New York City and State

• North Carolina Death Indexes, Records & Obituaries
  includes full state indexes, plus obituaries and cemeteries for many North Carolina counties

• North Dakota, State Death Certificates, 1908-2007 (indexed) (at Ancestry/requires payment) includes scanned images of the death certificates; Note: Social Security numbers and cause of death are not included on these certificates.

• North Dakota Death Index, 1881-present index only; you must search in 10 year increments or less; 1881-c.1924 is incomplete; copies of the death certificates can be purchased for a fee (with restrictions)

• Cass County (Fargo) Obituaries and Probate Records Databases

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

• Oklahoma State Vital Records Index - Births and Deaths for births more than 20 years ago and deaths more than 5 years ago; copies of the records can be ordered for a fee if eligibility requirements are met

• Muskogee Death and Newspaper Obituary Indexes 1907-recent
• Oklahoma County Genealogy Indexes includes Oklahoma City Death Register, 1908-1926; and other indexes
• Tulsa World and Tulsa Tribune Death Notice Index 1965-1990 with more being added
• For more Oklahoma listings see the first link in the General Section below

• Oregon Death Records Index, 1898-2008 (at Ancestry/requires payment)
• Oregon Historical Records Index indexes Portland deaths, 1881-1917; and other genealogy items

See: Pennsylvania Vital Records Indexes Online: Birth, Marriage and Death Records

• Rhode Island Death Index 1630-1930 (requires payment - part of an Ancestry subscription)
• Rhode Island Historical Cemetery Commission Grave Search

• Online South Carolina Death Indexes & Records

• South Dakota Death Index 1879-1955 (requires payment - part of an Ancestry subscription) early years (before July 1905) may be incomplete

• 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 and many other Texas counties
• Also see: Places to Find Texas Birth, Marriage, Divorce, and Death Indexes Online

• Utah Death Index, 1905-1967 (free) includes digitized images of the death certificates
• Utah Death Index, 1905-1951 (requires payment -- part of an Ancestry subscription) coverage may vary by county

• Utah State Historical Society Burials Database more than 500,000 listings from various Utah Cemeteries
• Utah, Obituaries from Utah Newspapers, 1850-2005 from FamilySearch; has over 500,000 entries

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

• Online Virginia Death Indexes & Records

• Washington State Department of Health, Death Certificates, July 1, 1907 to 1999 (free) includes images of the death certificates; ongoing project
• Washington Death Index, 1907-2017 (at Ancestry/requires payment) some years missing
• Washington Death Certificates Index, 1907-1960 and 1965-2017; from the Washington State Digital Archives (free)

• Washington State Digital Archives includes a Social Security Death Index for the State of Washington; census mortality schedules, 1860-1880; WA death index, 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 and St. Patrick - you must register before making a search
• Tacoma Pierce County Obituary Index
• 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

• Wyoming Death Records Index, 1909-1969 (at Ancestry/requires payment) includes images of the index cards

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Online Digitized Death Certificates

Military Cemeteries and VA Indexes

• Veterans Affairs Burial Search
• Arlington National Cemetery Burials official website of Arlington National Cemetery

• Military Graves and VA Indexes at Ancestry (these require an Ancestry subscription)
  • Department of Veterans Affairs BIRLS Death File, 1850-2010 (at Ancestry/requires payment) contains birth and death dates for more than 14 million veterans who had received benefits from the VA while they were alive; an Ancestry subscription also includes the next three items...
  • U.S. Veterans Gravesites, ca.1775-2019 (at Ancestry/requires payment)
  • U.S. Burial Registers, Military Posts and National Cemeteries, 1862-1960 (at Ancestry/requires payment) has over 500,000 listings, including Abraham Lincoln and General George Custer
  • U.S. Headstone Applications, 1861-1985 (at Ancestry/requires payment) includes digitized images of the applications; for burials in private cemeteries where a VA headstone was requested; has over 4.9 million entries