(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.
Colorado Death Records
- Additional Pueblo County Deaths
- Alamosa County Church Records
- Archuleta County, Miscellaneous Death Records
- Archuleta County, Records
- Baca County Births and Deaths Index
- Clear Creek Pioneer Index
- Colorado DPA Vital Records
- Colorado Federal and State Mortality Schedules – 1870, 1880, 1885
- Colorado Korean War Deaths
- Colorado Mining Fatalities 1844-1981
- Colorado Mortality Schedules, 1870-1880
- Colorado State Archives Birth, Marriage, Death Search
- Colorado World War I Deaths
- Colorado World War II Deaths
- Colorado, World War I American Expeditionary Forces, Deaths, 1917-1919
- Consolidated Ute, Indian Census Rolls (includes Vitals),, 1923-1939
- Consolidated Ute, Indian Census Rolls, 1923-1939
- Cripple Creek Newspaper Births, Marriages and Deaths 1895-1900
- Denver, Twenty-third Avenue Presbyterian Church, Baptisms, Marriages, Deaths, 1882-1906
- Eagle County Genealogy Index
- Garfield County Deaths from Mortuary Records
- Garfield County, Death Indexes
- Grand Junction Death Index
- Gunnison County Mining Deaths
- Gunnison County, Death Indexes
- Huerfano County Death Records
- Huerfano County, Death Indexes
- Huerfano County, Miscellaneous Deaths Index
- Las Animas County Death Records
- Las Animas County, Coroner’s Records and Accounts, 1896-1938
- Littleton Independent Death Index
- Mesa County Death Index
- Miscellaneous BMD Records by County
- Online Searchable Death Indexes
- Ouray County, Vital Records Index, 1870-1960
- Park County Deaths
- Pueblo County Death Index
- Pueblo County Death Index
- San Miguel County Congregational Church Deaths 1889-1896
- Teller County, Death Indexes
- Trinidad, Funeral Registers, 1888-1934
- 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
Good Luck and Happy Hunting!