(This page's most recent update is
August 2024)
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Over the past few decades, thanks to volunteers, librarians, and archivists (as well as the largest of them all – FamilySearch), a great number of indexes to death collections have been provided for free online. These searchable indexes provide specific death information and sometimes scanned images of the actual death certificates themselves. These free online collections have hundreds of millions of records in them in total.
There are a great number of online and offline collections that may include death information that is not included in the lists below. For example, newspapers and obituaries have death info, but most times obituary indexes include the date of the obituary but not the date of death. To find out which types of other records may include death information, please see:
The lists below are specific death indexes and record collections that are available for free online for the states in the region.
- Free Online Delaware Death Records and Indexes
- Free Online District of Columbia Death Records and Indexes
- Free Online Maryland Death Records and Indexes
- Free Online New Jersey Death Records and Indexes
- Free Online New York Death Records and Indexes
- Free Online Pennsylvania Death Records and Indexes
- Free Online Virginia Death Records and Indexes
- Free Online West Virginia Death Records and Indexes
Good Luck and Happy Hunting!