Free Online Arizona Death Records and Indexes

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.
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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: 

• 24 Ways to Find Ancestor Death Information
  

The lists below are specific death indexes and record collections that are available for free online for the state of Arizona.

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)

Arizona Death Records

• Apache County Births and Deaths, 1887-1907
• Apache County Coroner’s Inquests, 1882-1931
• Apache County, Death Index
• Arizona Birth and Death Certificates
• Arizona Birth and Death Records for Various Counties, 1887-1912
• Arizona Death Certificates 1870-1959
• Arizona Death Record Index (Compiled from mortuary, Cemetery, and Church Records)
• Arizona Deaths and Burials, 1910-1911; 1933-1994
• Arizona Deaths, 1870-1951
• Arizona Federal Mortality Schedules 1860-1880
• Arizona Obituary Archive
• Arizona Obituary Index to Arizona Newspapers, 1993-1994
• Arizona Pioneers’ Home (Prescott) Resident Ledger and Index, 1911-2000
• Arizona Territory, Deaths, year ending May 31, 1870
• Arizona, World War I American Expeditionary Forces, Deaths, 1917-1919
• Bisbee, Cochise County, Record of Births and Deaths, 1907-1915
• Cochise County Birth and Death Records, 1887-1909; Index to Births and Deaths & Contagious Diseases
• Cochise County Bisbee, Births and Deaths, 1907-1915
• Cochise County Deaths
• Cochise County Douglas, Register of Births and Deaths, Douglas, 1906-1935
• Cochise County, Death Index
• Coconino County Register of Births and Deaths, 1892-1909
• Coconino County, Death Index
• Colorado River, Indian Census Rolls, 1885-1940
• Flagstaff Death Index
• Fort Apache Agency, Records of California and Arizona Indian tribes, ca. 1908-1949
• Fort Apache, Indian Census Rolls, 1898-1939
• Fort Yuma, Indian Census Rolls, 1905-1935
• Gila County Birth and Death Records 1887-1938
• Gila County, Death Index
• Gila County, Globe, Vital Statistics, 1908-1909
• Graham County Record of Births and Deaths, 1889-1909
• Graham County, Death Index
• Greenlee County Coroner’s Inquests and Index, 1911-1967
• Greenlee County, Death Index
• Havasupai, Indian Census Rolls, 1905-1933
• Hopi Reservation, Indian Census Rolls, 1924-1939
• Jicarilla Indian Agency, Births, Deaths and Marriages, 1931-1939
• La Paz County, Death Index
• Maricopa County and Pima County Register of Births and Deaths, 1889-1909
• Maricopa County Registers of Births and Deaths, 1881-1909
• Maricopa County, Death Index
• Maricopa County, Phoenix Record of Deaths, 1893-1915
• Miscellaneous BMD Records by County
• Mohave County Birth, Marriage, and Death Indexes
• Mohave County Record of Births and Deaths, 1887-1909
• Mohave County Vital Records Indexes
• Mohave County, Death Index
• Mohave County, Death Index
• Navajo County Births and Deaths 1895-1912
• Navajo County Miscellaneous Records, 1895-1924; Index, 1895-1931
• Navajo County, Death Index
• Online Searchable Death Indexes
• Payson Deaths, 1948-2008
• Pima Agency, Vital Records, ca 1850-1931
• Pima County Death Indexes
• Pima County Miscellaneous Records, 1880-1921; Indexes, 1877-1921
• Pima County, Death Index
• Pima County, Tucson, Birth and Death Records, 1884-1909
• Pinal County Birth and Death Records 1887-1910
• Pinal County Births and Deaths
• Pinal County, Death Index
• San Carlos Agency, Census, Birth and Death Records, 1932-1937
• Santa Cruz County Record of Births and Deaths, 1903-1931
• Santa Cruz County, Death Index
• 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
• West Valley Genealogical Society Deaths
• Western States Deseret News Deaths (card file) 1970
• Winslow Permit for Burial or Removal, 1925-1932
• Yavapai County Coroner Inquests, 1867-1929
• Yavapai County Records of Births and Deaths, 1887-1938
• Yavapai County, Death Index
• Yuma County Birth and Death Records, 1888-1893
• Yuma County Death Index
• Yuma County Death Records, 1915-1948
• Yuma County Deaths
• Yuma County, Death Index