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 are 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.
(Updated June 2022)
- Free Online Illinois Death Records and Indexes
- Free Online Indiana Death Records and Indexes
- Free Online Iowa Death Records and Indexes
- Free Online Kansas Death Records and Indexes
- Free Online Michigan Death Records and Indexes
- Free Online Minnesota Death Records and Indexes
- Free Online Missouri Death Records and Indexes
- Free Online Nebraska Death Records and Indexes
- Free Online North Dakota Death Records and Indexes
- Free Online Ohio Death Records and Indexes
- Free Online Oklahoma Death Records and Indexes
- Free Online South Dakota Death Records and Indexes
- Free Online Wisconsin Death Records and Indexes
Good Luck and Happy Hunting!