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 state of Alabama.
Note: Some of the links listed take you to a FamilySearch Collection of digital images. Near the bottom of the page under Film/Digital Notes is the name of each sub-collection. If there is a camera icon at the right of the name (in the Format column) then the collections’ images are browsable. If there is a camera with a key icon, it is only available at a Family History Center or affiliated library. If there is a film reel icon, then it is only available in microfilm format, not digital. To take full advantage, please make sure that you are logged in to FamilySearch. The results may be different if you are signed in, rather than not.
Note: I have included links to Free Ancestry records and indexes. You do not need a subscription, but do need an Ancestry account. Without a subscription, you can view indexes. If there is an image associated with a record, in most cases you will need a subscription, but the index does include very usable information.
(Updated March 2023)
Alabama Death Records
- Alabama Death Census, Autauga-Winston Counties, 1870
- Alabama Death Record of State Convicts, 1843-1951
- Alabama Death Schedules
- Alabama Deaths 1859-1860
- Alabama Deaths and Burials, 1881-1952
- Alabama Deaths, 1908-1974
- Alabama Federal and State Mortality Schedules 1850-1880
- Alabama, Coal Mine Fatalities, 1898-1938
- Alabama, Federal Death Records of 1860, Autauga, Baldwin, Barbour, Bibb, Blount and Butler Counties
- Alabama, Freedmen’s Bureau Field Office Records, 1865-1872
- Alabama, World War I American Expeditionary Forces, Deaths, 1917-1919
- Alabama, Deaths of State Convicts, 1884-1951; Deaths of County Convicts, 1885-1922, 1884-1951
- Alabama, Index to Birth and Death Certificates, 1917-1919
- Alabama. 1860 Mortality Schedules, Autauga thru Winston Counties
- Autauga County Birth and Death Records, 1871-1916
- Autauga County, Death Indexes
- Baldwin County Births and Deaths, 1886-1919; Marriages, 1810-1935, 1810-1935
- Baldwin County, 1860 Federal Census and Schedule of Deaths
- Baldwin County, Death Indexes
- Barbour County, Death Indexes
- Bibb County, Death Indexes
- Bibb County, Register of Births and Deaths, 1900-1919
- Blount County Miscellaneous Birth and Death Records, 1905-1912
- Blount County Vital Records
- Blount County, Alabama Private Records, late 1700’s-1800’s
- Blount County, Death Indexes
- Bullock County Birth and Death Records, 1909-1919
- Bullock County, Death Indexes
- Butler County, Death Indexes
- Butler County, Births and Deaths, 1870-1930
- Calhoun County, Death Indexes
- Chambers County Death and Marriage Records
- Chambers County, Death Indexes
- Cherokee County, Death Indexes
- Chilton County Register of Births and Deaths, 1908-1919
- Chilton County, Death Indexes
- Choctaw County Birth and Death Index
- Choctaw County Register of Births and Deaths, 1916-1919; Birth Decrees, 1943-1950
- Choctaw County, Death Indexes
- Clarke County Register of Births and Deaths, 1914-1919
- Clarke County, Death Indexes
- Clay County, Death Indexes
- Clay County, Deaths
- Cleburne County Register of Births and Deaths, 1911-1921
- Cleburne County, Death Indexes
- Cleburne County, Deaths
- Coffee County Births, 1904-1919; Deaths, 1908-1927
- Coffee County, Death Indexes
- Colbert County, Death Indexes
- Conecuh County Births and Deaths, 1878-1954
- Conecuh County, Death Indexes
- Coosa County Early Records 1832-1860
- Coosa County, Death Indexes
- Covington County, Death Indexes
- Crenshaw County, Death Indexes
- Cullman County Deaths, 1886-1919; Register of Births, 1894-1904; Births and Deaths, 1911-1912, 1886-1919
- Cullman County, Death Records : December 1886 – December 1908
- Dale County, Death Indexes
- Dale County, Deaths
- Dallas County Death Records, 1882-1921
- Dallas County, Death Indexes
- DeKalb County, Death Indexes
- Elmore County Register of Births and Deaths, 1909-1913
- Elmore County, Death Indexes
- Escambia County, Death Indexes
- Escanbia County, Deaths
- Etowah County, Death Indexes
- Fayette County Deaths
- Fayette County Births, 1884-1941; Deaths, 1899-1941
- Fayette County, Death Indexes
- Franklin County, Death Indexes
- Geneva County Register of Births and Deaths, 1912-1918
- Geneva County, Death Indexes
- Greene County, Death Indexes
- Hale County Death Records, 1920-1936
- Hale County, Death Indexes
- Hale County, Births, 1881-1935; Deaths, 1918-1930
- Henry County, Death Indexes
- Houston County, Death Indexes
- Jackson County Alabama Records
- Jackson County Birth and Death Records, 1892-1896
- Jackson County Births, 1920-1934; Births and Deaths, 1914-1917
- Jackson County, Death Indexes
- Jefferson County, Death Indexes
- Lamar County Vital Records
- Lamar County, Death Indexes
- Lauderdale County Death Index
- Lawrence County Register of Deaths 1896-1901
- Lawrence County, Death Indexes
- Lee County, Death Indexes
- Limestone County, Death Notices from Limestone County Newspapers, 1828-1891
- Lowndes County Births and Deaths, 1879-1935
- Macon County Records of Deaths, 1920-1937
- Madison County, Death Indexes
- Miscellaneous BMD Records by County
- Mobile County Death Records, 1920-1940; Indexes, 1920-1940
- Mobile County, Death and/or Burial Records, 1871-1880
- Mobile Magnolia Cemetery Interment Cards, 1836-1995
- Montgomery, Death & Marriage Notices from the Montgomery Advertiser (1881)
- Montgomery, Death, Marriage and Probate Notices from Montgomery Newspapers, 1821-1875
- Online Searchable Death Indexes
- Ozark, Dale County Deaths Database
- Pike County Deaths
- Pike County Births, 1881-1937; Deaths, 1881-1929
- Randolph County, Births and Deaths, 1886-1945
- Shelby County Birth and Death Indexes
- Shelby County Register of Births and Deaths, 1902-1929
- Shelby County, Death Indexes
- St. Clair County Deaths, 1881-1895
- St. Clair County Register of Births and Deaths 1908-1916
- St. Clair County Vital Records
- St. Clair County, Death Indexes
- Sumter County Births, 1909-1919; Deaths, 1909-1919
- Sumter County, Death Indexes
- Talladega County, Death Indexes
- Tallapoosa County Deaths, 1923-1938; Index to Deaths, 1925-1938; Births, 1927-1938; Index to Births, 1920-1938; Register of Births and Deaths, 1908-1919
- Tallapoosa County General Indexes to Records
- Tallapoosa County Register of Deaths, 1881-1898
- Tallapoosa County, Death, Marriage and Legal Notices from Tallapoosa County Newspapers (1860-1890)
- Tallapoosa County, Deaths
- Tuscaloosa County, Death Indexes
- United States Deaths and Burials, 1867-1961
- United States Korean War Battle Deaths, 1950-1957
- United States Social Security Death Index
- United States, World War I American Expeditionary Forces Deaths, 1917-1919
- Walker County Deaths
- Walker County, Death Indexes
- Washington County Births, 1920-1941; Deaths, 1920-1941; Delayed Births, 1944-1964
- Washington County, Death Indexes
- Wilcox County Register of Deaths, 1905-1915; Register of Births, 1905-1908
- Wilcox County, Death Indexes
- Winston County Births, Marriages, and Deaths
- Winston County Winston County, Register of Deaths, 1888-1910
- Winston County, Death Indexes
- Winston County, Deaths
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