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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 Connecticut.
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.
Connecticut Death Records
- Ansonia Records of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1889-1906; Index to Births, Marriages, Deaths, 1889-1934
- Ashford Vital Records, 1880-1905
- Ashford, Records of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1675-1849
- Ashford, Vital Statistics, V. 5, 1770-1884
- Ashford, Records of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1852-1917
- Avon Vital Records, 1850-1884
- Avon, Hartford County – Barbour Collection
- Barkhamsted, Litchfield County, Connecticut (Ackley thru Case)
- Beacon Falls Historical Society Death Index
- Beacon Falls Records of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1871-1908
- Berlin Records of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, V. 1-2, 1849-1913
- Bethany Records of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, V. 1-3, 1832-1907
- Bethel Records of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, V. 1-2, 1855-1914
- Bloomfield, Records of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1835-1911; Index to Vital Statistics, 1738-1938
- Bolton Records of Births and Deaths, 1852-1908
- Bolton Records of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1799-1880
- Bolton Town Records, V. 1-2, 1704-1855
- Bolton Vital Records to 1854 and Vernon to 1852
- Bolton, Vital Records
- Bozrah Vital Records, 1852-1905
- Bozrah First Book of Records of Marriages, Births & Deaths, 1755-1861
- Branford Records of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1852-1910
- Bridgeport Records of Deaths 1853-1904
- Bridgewater Records of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1856-1902
- Bristol Records of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1791-1903
- Bristol Records of Vital Statistics, 1847-1904
- Bristol, Vital Records
- Brookfield Records of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1764-1853
- Brookfield Records of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1852-1906
- Brooklyn, Records of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1750-1917; Index to Vital Statistics, 1750-1936
- Canaan or North Canaan Record of Deaths, 1739-1875
- Canterbury Records of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1696-1907
- Chaplin Connecticut Vital Records, 1822 – 1851
- Chatham Vital Statistics, 1731-1909
- Chatham, Middlesex County Barbour Collection
- Cheshire Records of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1852-1905
- Cheshire Town Records, 1765-1884
- Chester, Middlesex County, Connecticut Vital Records, 1836 – 1852, Barbour Collection
- Chester, Records of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1847-1917
- Clinton, Middlesex County Post – Barbour Collection
- Clinton, Middlesex County, Connecticut Vital Records, 1838 – 1854, Barbour Collection
- Clinton, Vital Records, Barbour – A-W
- Colchester Index to Births, Marriages, and Deaths
- Colchester Records of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1712-1932
- Colchester, Vital Records
- Colebrook Connecticut Vital Records, 1779 – 1810
- Columbia Connecticut Vital Records, 1804 – 1852
- Columbia Town Records, V. 1, 1768-1868
- Connecticut Death Index Files
- Connecticut Death Index, 1949-2001
- Connecticut Death Records Index, 1897-1968
- Connecticut Deaths and Burials, 1772-1934
- Connecticut Genealogy Index, from Reclaim the Records
- Connecticut Jewish Ledger Death Database
- Connecticut Lithuanian Marriages and Deaths
- Connecticut Personal and Family Vital Records
- Connecticut, Deaths, 1640-1955
- Connecticut, German Death Cards
- Connecticut, Miscellaneous County Vital Records
- Coventry Births, Marriages, Baptisms and Deaths, 1711-1844
- Coventry Records of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1858-1936
- Coventry Town Records, 1692-1853
- Coventry, Index to Vital Statistics, 17– to 1936
- Cromwell Birth, Marriage, and Death Certificates, 1896-1900
- Cromwell Records of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1852-1896
- Cromwell Vital Records, 1850-1855
- Danbury Vital Records
- Danbury Records of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1711-1841
- Danbury Records of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, V. 1, 1820-1870
- Danbury Records of Deaths, V. 1-3, 1871-1905
- Danbury, Fairfield County – Barbour Collection Records
- Darien Records of Births, Marriages and Deaths, V. 1-3, 1847-1909
- Darien Town Records, 1765-1873
- Derby Records of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, V. 1-8, 1783-1904; Indexes to Vital Statistics, 1783-1923
- Durham Records of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1847-1916
- Durham, Middlesex County Barbour Collection
- Durham, Vital Records – Barbour Collection, 1668 – 1852
- Early Hartford Vital Records
- East Glastonbury, Miscellaneous Records
- East Granby Records of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1858-1911
- East Granby Vital Records 1737-1886
- East Haddam Records of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1687-1915
- East Haddam, Middlesex County Barbour Collection Records
- East Hartford Death Certificates, 1853-1900
- East Hartford Records of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1739-1907; Index to Vital Statistics, 1739-1939
- East Haven Death Register
- East Haven Records of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1852-1932
- Eastford Records of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, V. 1-4, 1847-1915
- Easton Records of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1852-1910
- Enfield Record of Births, Marriages, Deaths, 1848-1851
- Enfield Records of Births, Marriages, Deaths, 1852-1901
- Enfield Town Records, 1682-1854
- Essex Records of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1852-1918
- Fairfield County Church Vital Records
- Fairfield County Death Records
- Fairfield County Deaths
- Fairfield County Vital Records
- Fairfield County, Death Index
- Fairfield Vital Records
- Fairfield Records of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1852-1902
- Fairfield Reports of Births, Marriages, and Deaths in the School Districts, 1847-1850
- Fairfield, Fairfield County – Barbour Collection Records
- Farmington Vital Records, 1823-1896
- Farmington Birth, Marriage, and Death Records 1643-1850
- Farmington Record of Births, Marriages, and Deaths 1847-1907
- Glastonbury, Records of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1680-1905
- Goshen, Litchfield County Barbour Collection
- Granby, Hartford County – Barbour Collection
- Granby, Records of Births, Marriages, Deaths, and Burials, 1852-1885
- Granby, Vital Statistics, 1829-1855
- Greenwich Deaths 1850-1890
- Greenwich Records of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, V. 1-4, 1847-1908
- Greenwich, Fairfield County Barbour Collection Records
- Griswold, Records of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1738-1917
- Groton Births, Marriages, Deaths, 1704-1853
- Groton Death Certificates, 1884,1895-1915
- Groton Records of Births, Marriages, Deaths, 1686-1915
- Groton Records of Births, Marriages, Deaths, and Earmarks, 1686-1749
- Guilford Records of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1639-1905
- Guilford, Death Records, 1870-1878
- Guilford, Vital Records 1816-1842, 1865, 1874
- Haddam Records of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1662-1911
- Haddam, Middlesex County – Barbour Collection Records
- Hamden Records of Births, Marriages, Deaths, 1867-1903
- Hamden, New Haven County – Barbour Collection
- Hamden, New Haven County – Barbour Collection
- Hampton Records of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1838-1901
- Hampton Town Records, V. A-B, 1786-1856
- Hartford County Church Vital Records
- Hartford County Death Records
- Hartford County Vital Records
- Hartford County Coroner’s Records, 1883-1932
- Hartford County, Death Index
- Hartford Records of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1797-1868
- Hartford Records of Deaths, 1852-1903
- Hartford, Early Records – Part II
- Hartford, Death Records, 1790-1840
- Hartford, Death Records, 1794-1837
- Hartford, Early Records – Part I
- Hartford, Hartford County – Barbour Collection
- Hartland Vital Records, 1840-1905
- Hebron First Book of Records, Births, Marriages and Deaths
- Hebron Records of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1684-1849
- Hebron Records of Births, Marriages, Deaths 1848-1911
- Hebron, Tolland County Barbour Collection
- Huntington Records of Births, Marriages and Deaths 1739-1912
- Kent Records of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1723-1903
- Killingly Records of Births, Deaths, and Marriages, Book No. 1, 1700- 1835
- Killingly Records of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, V. 1-5, 1700- 1903; General Index to Births, Marriages, Deaths, to 1905
- Killingworth Miscellaneous Town Records, 1663- 1747
- Killingworth Records of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1847-1908
- Killingworth Records, V. 2, 1692-1849
- Killingworth, Middlesex County – Barbour Collection
- Killingworth, Post-Barbour Vital Records
- Lebanon Records of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, Vols. 1-4, 1700-1915
- Ledyard, New London County Barbour Collection
- Ledyard, Records of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1836-1917
- Lisbon, New London County Barbour Collection
- Lisbon, Records of Births, Marriages, Deaths, 1771-1917
- Litchfield County Church Vital Records
- Litchfield County Coroner’s Records, 1883-1934
- Litchfield Records of Births, Marriages, and Deaths 1867-1910
- Litchfield Town Records, 1701-1881
- Lyme, Births-Marriages-Deaths, 1667-1852
- Madison Connecticut Vital Records, 1826 – 1850
- Madison Records of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1852-1906
- Madison Records of Marriages, Births, and Deaths, 1763-1853
- Manchester Records of Births, Marriages, Deaths, 1847-1901
- Mansfield Vital Records
- Mansfield Records of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1686-1901
- Mansfield, Vital Records
- Marlborough Vital Records, 1881-1905
- Meriden Records of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1761-1908
- Middlefield, Death Records, 1761-1874
- Middlesex County Church Vital Records
- Middlesex County Death Records
- Middlesex County Vital Records
- Middlesex County, Death Index
- Middletown Records of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1640-1921
- Middletown, Middlesex County Barbour Collection
- Milford Records of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1847-1921; Indexes to Births, Marriages, Deaths, 1640-1936
- Miscellaneous BMD Records by County
- Miscellaneous Connecticut Marriage & Death Records
- Monroe Records of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1847-1901
- Naugatuck Records of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, V. 1-6, 1863-1903
- Naugatuck Records of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, V. A-D, 1844-1862
- Naugatuck, New Haven County – Barbour Collection Vital Records, 1844-1853
- New Britain Records of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1866-1909
- New Canaan Records of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, V. 1-2, 1766-1900; Index to Vital Statistics, 1766-1935
- New Hartford Records of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1852-1921
- New Hartford Report of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1847-1851
- New Hartford Town Records, 1739-1864
- New Haven County Church Vital Records
- New Haven County Death Records
- New Haven County Vital Records
- New Haven County Coroner’s Records, 1883-1932
- New Haven County Coroner’s Records, Waterbury District, 1917-1931
- New Haven Records of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1639-1902; Indexes to Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1639-1914
- New Haven, Vital Records 1649-1850
- New London County Church Vital Records
- New London County Coroner’s Records, 1883-1932
- New London County, Death Index
- New London County, Death Index
- New London Records of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1644-1922
- New London Vital Records from 1646-1854
- New London, New London County Barbour Collection Records
- New Milford Records of Births, Marriages, and Deaths 1702-1902
- North Branford Town and Church Records, 1769-1885
- North Branford Records of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1847-1908
- North Branford Town Records, V. 1, 1780-1870
- North Canaan Vital Records, 1886-1909
- North Canaan Records of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1858-1911
- North Haven Records of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1766-1916
- North Stonington Vital Records, 1880-1905
- Norwalk Records of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1848-1909
- Norwich Records of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1640-1921
- Norwich, Early Vital Records
- Norwich, Vital Records
- Norwich, Vital Records 1659-1848
- Old Saybrook Record of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1854-1906
- Online Searchable Death Indexes
- Orange Records of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1804-1901; Index to Vital Statistics, 1804-1937
- Oxford Records of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1847-1908
- Oxford Records of Births, Marriages, Deaths, Earmarks, V. 1, 1743-1848
- Plainville Records of Births, Marriages, Deaths 1869-1914
- Plymouth Records of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1745-1938
- Pomfret Copy of First Records, 1686-1865
- Pomfret Records of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1870-1911
- Pomfret Records of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, V. 1-5, 1695- 1869
- Portland, Middlesex County Barbour Collection of Vital Records
- Portland, Middlesex County Barbour Collection of Vital Records
- Preston Records of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1672-1933
- Putnam Records of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, V. 1-3, 1855-1900
- Putnam, Birth, Marriage, and Death Records
- Redding Records of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, V. 2-4, 1726-1902; Index to Vital Statistics, 1726-1940
- Rocky Hill Vital Records, 1865-1879
- Rocky Hill Records of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1847-1915
- Rocky Hill Records of Marriages, Deaths, and Baptisms, 1764-1854
- Salem Vital Records, 1856-1903
- Salisbury Records of Births, Deaths, and Marriages, 1847-1905
- Salisbury Records of Births, Deaths, Marriages, and Town Meetings, 1740-1848
- Salisbury, Litchfield County Historical Collections
- Saybrook Town and Miscellaneous Records
- Saybrook, Middlesex County Barbour Collection
- Seymour Records of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1849-1904
- Seymour Vital Statistics
- Seymour, Births, Baptisms, Marriages, Deaths through 1883
- Sharon Births, Marriages and Deaths, from 1721 to 1879
- Sharon, Litchfield County Barbour Collection
- Sherman Records of Births, Marriages, and Deaths 1852-1907
- Sherman Town Records, V. 5, 1782-1877
- Sherman, Fairfield County Barbour Collection Records
- Simsbury Records of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, V. 1-2, 1847-1908
- Simsbury Town Records, 1670-1864
- Simsbury, Births, Marriages and Deaths
- Simsbury, Marriages, Births, & Deaths Extracted from History of Simsbury, Granby, and Canton, 1642-1845
- South Windsor Records of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1830-1852
- South Windsor Records of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1852-1910
- Southbury Records of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1848-1905
- Southbury Town Records, 1752-1878
- Southbury Vital Statistics
- Southington Records of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1847-1900
- Sprague Records of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1879-1927
- Sprague Registration of Births, Marriages, Deaths, 1861-1905
- Stafford Records of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1869-1902
- Stamford Barbour Vital Records Index (1641-1853)
- Stamford Births, Marriages, and Deaths
- Stamford Registration of Births, Marriages, and Deaths , From the First Record Down to the Year 1825
- Stamford Records of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1847-1906
- Stamford Town Records, 1630-1806
- Stonington Certificates of Marriage, Birth, and Death, 1811-1846
- Stonington Records of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1847-1918
- Stonington Town Records, 1664-1831
- Stonington, 1861 to 1948 Deaths of Portuguese People
- Stonington, New London County – Barbour Collection
- Stratford Records of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, V. A-C, 1820-1914; Indexes to Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1640-1914
- Stratford, Fairfield County Barbour Collection Records
- Suffield Records of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1662-1904
- Suffield Records of the Congregational Church 1710-1836
- The East Haven Register , Records
- Thomaston Records of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1875-1912
- Thompson Records of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, V. 1-4, 1733- 1904
- Tolland County Church Vital Records
- Tolland County Coroner’s Records, 1883-1942
- Tolland County, Death Index
- Torrington Records of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, V. 1-4, 1741-1902; Index to Vital Statistics, 1741-1906
- Torrington, Record of Death, 1777-1864
- Torrington, Records of Deaths in Torringford Society, 1855-1884
- Torrington, Records of Deaths, 1777-1884
- Trumbull Records of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, V. 1-2, 1848-1906
- Trumbull Town Records, 1796-1848
- Union Births, Marriages, Deaths, 1734-1850
- Union Town Records, Vol. 2, 1718-1749
- Union Vol. 1-B Births, Vol. 1-D Deaths, Vol. 1-M Marriages, 1731-1863
- 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
- Vernon General Index to Vital Statistics Records 1851-1905
- Vernon Records of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1852-1904
- Vernon Town Records, 1758-1876
- Vernon, Vital Records To 1852
- Voluntown, Barbour Records
- Voluntown, New London County Barbour Collection
- Voulntown Birth, Marriage, and Death Index 1703-1850
- Wallingford Records of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, ca.1762-1903
- Wallingford, Births, Marriages and Deaths, 1670-1821
- Wallingford, New Haven County Barbour Collection Records, 1670-1850
- Washington Records of Births, Marriages, and Deaths 1852-1913
- Washington Records of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1742-1854
- Waterbury Record of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1852-1871
- Waterbury Records of Deaths, V. 1-4, 1864-1902
- Waterbury Town Records, V. 1-3, 1680-1851
- Watertown Births, Marriages, Deaths, V. 1, 1847-1902
- Watertown Record Book of Marriages, Births, Deaths, No. O, 1753-1850
- Watertown Record of Mortality 1741 -1889
- Watertown, Record of Mortality
- West Hartford Certificates and Returns of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1854- 1905; Indexes to Vital Statistics, 1854-1939
- West Hartford Records of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, V. 1-3, 1854-1912
- Weston Death Certificates, 1861, 1879-1905
- Weston Records of Births, Marriages, and Deaths 1847- 1867
- Weston Town Records, 1835-1895
- Westport Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1852-1903
- Westport Record of Births, Marriages, Deaths, No. 1, 1847-1851
- Wethersfield Vital Records, 1887-1904
- Wethersfield, B/M/D [A-F]
- Wethersfield, B/M/D [G-W]
- Wethersfield, Hartford County – Barbour Collection
- Wethersfield, Records of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1635-1924
- Willington Records of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1720-1854
- Willington Records of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1847-1912
- Willington Town Records, 1722-1912
- Wilton Records of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1776-1901
- Winchester Town Records, No. 1, 1771-1782
- Winchester Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1847-1903
- Winchester Births, Marriages, Deaths, 1771-1856
- Windham County Connecticut Church Records
- Windham County Vital Records Indexes
- Windham County Coroner’s Records, 1883-1932
- Windham County, Death Index
- Windham Records of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1894-1922
- Windham Records of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, V. A-I, 1692-1893
- Windham Records of the Congregational Church 1700-1851
- Windsor Records of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1638-1925
- Windsor, Early Records and Documents 1639-1703
- Woodbridge Records of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1873-1908
- Woodstock Vital Records
- Woodstock Records of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, V. 1-5, 1686-1929
- Woodstock Vital Records 1686-1854
- Woodstock, Birth, Death, Marriages, 1686 – 1854
Good Luck and Happy Hunting!