(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), many indexes to death collections have been provided for free online. These searchable indexes provide specific death information and sometimes scanned images of the death certificates. These free online collections have hundreds of millions of records 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.
Note: Some 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 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.
Alaska Death Records
- Alaska Deaths Index
- Alaska Pioneer Deaths and Obituaries (Transcribed)
- Alaska Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church Index to Baptisms, Marriages and Deaths, 1900-1936
- Alaska State Archives Vital Statistics by Name
- Alaska Vital Records Indexes
- Alaska, Coroner’s Inquests, 1904-1959
- Alaska, Death Records, 1898-1959
- Alaska, Deaths from the Wreck of the Steamer Princess Sophia, Skagway to Vancouver, Voyage No. 319, 1918
- Alaska, Miscellaneous Death Records, 1918-1919
- Alaska, Mixed Vital Records, 1901-1929
- Alaska, Mixed Vital Records, 1916-1929
- Alaska, Mt. McKinley Death Records, 1934-1968
- Alaska, State Archives, Coroner’s Inquests, 1913-1958
- Alaska, Vital Records, 1816-1959
- Aleutian Islands, Death Records, 1913-1953
- Anchorage, Coroner’s Records, ca. 1900-1959
- Barrow, Birth, Marriage, and Death Records, 1902-1959
- Bethel Precinct, Death Records, 1916-1974
- Bethel, Coroner’s Records, 1914-1955
- Bethel, Miscellaneous Records, 1912-1913
- Bristol Bay, Birth, Marriage, and Death Records, 1902-1961
- Cape Nome Precinct, Coroner’s Records, 1900-1959
- Cape Nome Precinct, Death Records, 1899-1937
- Cape Nome Precinct, Mixed Vital Records, 1915-1949
- Chitina, Birth, Marriage, and Death Certificates, 1915-1969
- Circle Precinct, Death Records, 1913-1950
- Copper Center, Coroner’s Inquests, 1949-1954
- Copper Center, Death Records, 1913-1915
- Cordova, Birth, Marriage, and Death Records, 1912-1960
- Cordova, Miscellaneous Records, 1911-1958
- Council City, Death Records, 1913-1915
- Craig, Birth, Marriage, and Death Records, 1910-1991
- Denali Borough Deaths
- Douglas, Alaska & Yukon Vital Records 1898-1922 as Reported in the Weekly Douglas Island Newspaper
- Douglas, Death Records, 1915-1930
- Douglas, Miscellaneous Records, 1916-1929
- Drownings in the Yukon & Alaska
- Eagle, Death Records, 1900-1915
- East Aleutian Islands Borough Deaths
- Fairbanks North Star Borough Deaths
- Fairbanks North Star Borough, Death Index
- Fairbanks Precinct, Miscellaneous Vital Records, 1917-1967
- Fairbanks, Alaska Cemetery Records and Death Index
- Fairbanks, Coroner’s Inquests, 1904-1960
- Fairbanks, Court Records, 1901-1960
- Fairbanks, Court Records, 1901-1960
- Fairbanks, Death and Funeral, 1933-1941
- Fairbanks, Death Records, 1913-1915
- Fairhaven, Death Records, 1914-1961
- Fort Yukon, Death Records, 1915-1967
- Forty Mile Precinct, Death Records, 1915-1933
- Galena and Nulato, Mixed Vital Records, 1914-1950
- Gold Precinct, Death Records, 1916-1942
- Goodnews Bay, Death Records, 1939-1948
- Haines, Court Records, 1941-1959
- Haines, Death Records, 1946-1959
- Haines, Marriage, and Death Records, 1938-1950
- Hoonah Birth, Marriage, and Death Records, 1903-1954
- Hoonah, Death Records, 1918-1921
- Hyder, Death Records, 1921-1957
- Juneau Borough Deaths
- Juneau, Coroner’s Records, 1899-1969
- Juneau, Death Records, 1903-1960
- Juneau, Index to Vital Statistics, 1903-1915
- Juneau, Mixed Records, 1884-1896
- Karluk, Death Records, 1925-1949
- Kenai, Death Records, 1916-1950
- Ketchikan Borough Deaths
- Ketchikan, Death Records, 1912-1959
- Kodiak Island Borough Deaths
- Kodiak Precinct, Death Records, 1927-1959
- Kodiak, Court Records, 1922-1959
- Kotzebue, Birth, Marriage, and Death Records, 1913-1952
- Koyukuk Precinct, Commissioner’s Records, 1949
- Koyukuk Precinct, Death Records, 1915-1950
- Kuskokwim, Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1902-1974
- Kvichak, Births, Marriage, and Death Records, 1888-1960
- Lake and Peninsula Borough Deaths
- Matanuska-Susitna Borough Deaths
- Miscellaneous BMD Records by County
- Mt. McKinley, Birth, Marriage, and Death Records, 1911-1957
- Nenana Birth, Marriage, and Death Records, 1916-1984
- Nenana Precinct, Coroner’s Records, 1918-1959
- Noatak-Kobuk Precinct, Death Records, 1913-1965
- Nome Census Area Marriages and Deaths
- Nome, Coroner’s Inquests, 1900-1959
- Nome, Death Records, 1813-1915
- North Slope Borough Births, Marriages, and Deaths
- Northwest Arctic Borough Deaths
- Nulato Precinct, Death Records, 1925-1955
- Online Searchable Death Indexes
- Otter, Birth, Marriage, and Death Records, 1913-1950
- Palmer, Birth, Marriage, and Death Records, 1935-1959
- Petersburg, Birth, Marriage, and Death Records, 1913-1974
- Petersburg, Coroner’s Records, 1924-1959
- Petersburg, Miscellaneous Records, 1925-1961
- Point Barrow, Birth, Marriage, and Death Records, 1915-1959
- Rampart, Death Records, 1903-1951
- Russian Orthodox Church Records, 1845-1917
- Salchaket, Death Records, 1815-1924
- Seldovia, Death Records, 1930-1990
- Seward, Birth, Marriage, and Death Records, 1903-1972
- Seward, Coroner’s Records, ca. 1900-1959
- Sitka, Coroner’s Records, 1912-1944
- Sitka, Death Records, 1817-1866, 1930-1959
- Sitka, Listing of People Who Have Either Died or Are Buried in Sitka
- Skagway Birth, Marriage, and Death Records, 1898-1959
- Skagway Borough Borough Deaths
- Skagway, Coroner’s Records, 1898-1935
- Talkeetna, Birth, Marriage, and Death Records, 1910-1959
- Tanana and Fort Gibbon Military Base, Coroner’s Records, 1908-1922
- Tanana Precinct, Birth, Marriage, and Death Records, 1917-1971
- Teller, Death Records, 1913-1958
- Teller, Mixed Vital Records, 1896-1951
- Tenakee, Death Records, 1915-1937
- Tundra Times Newspaper Index (and Clippings) 1962-1997
- Unalaska Birth, Marriage, and Death Records, 1869-1897
- Unga Precinct, Death Records, 1927-1941
- 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
- Valdez, Birth, Marriage, and Death Records, 1871, 1904-1960
- Valdez-Cordova Census Area, Death Index
- Wade Hampton Precinct, Death Records, 1915-1966
- Whittier, Coroner’s Records, ca. 1900-1959
- Wrangell & Petersburg Boroughs Deaths
- Wrangell, Birth, Marriage, and Death Records, 1938-1964
- Wrangell, Coroner’s Inquests, 1903-1959
- Yakutat Borough Births and Deaths
- Yakutat Borough Death Records
- Yakutat, Death Records, 1937-1954
- Yukon – Koyukuk Census Area Deaths
Good Luck and Happy Hunting!