(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), 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.
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 you 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.
Louisiana Death Records
- Acadia Parish Death and Obituary Index
- Allen County, Death Indexes
- Assumption County, Death Indexes
- Assumption Parish Deaths 1900-1914
- Assumption Parish, Death Notices, 1867-1954
- Attakapas District Records
- Avoyelles Parish, Death Indexes
- Beauregard County, Death Indexes
- Beauregard Parish Death Index
- Calcasieu Parish Death Indexes
- Caldwell County, Death Indexes
- Concordia Parish Death Indexes
- East Baton Rouge Parish, Death Indexes
- Evangeline County, Death Indexes
- Iberville Parish, Death Indexes
- Jefferson Davis Parish Deaths
- Jefferson Parish Register of Deaths, 1868-1870; Death Certificates, 1869
- Louisiana Biography and Obituary and Death Index
- Louisiana Deaths, 1850-1875, 1894-1960
- Louisiana Early Court and Church Records
- Louisiana Federal Census Record Mortality Schedules 1850-1880
- Louisiana Miscellaneous Vital Records
- Louisiana Secretary of State Death Records Index
- Louisiana Miscellaneous Vital Records, 1700-1900
- Louisiana, World War I American Expeditionary Forces, Deaths, 1917-1919
- Madison Parish Death Records 1900-1949
- Miscellaneous BMD Records by County
- New Orleans Christ Church Episcopal Cathedral Baptismal, Marriage and Death Records 1849-1900
- New Orleans Deaths and Marriages: 1855-1856
- New Orleans Miscellaneous Death Reports and Indexes, 1862-1863, 1926
- New Orleans, Bayou St. John Cemetery, Register of Deaths and Record of Interments, 1835-1844
- New Orleans, Death Certificates and Orders for Burials in Locust Grove Cemetery, 1876-1877
- New Orleans, Mothe Funeral Home, Death Records and Obituaries, 1923-1991
- New Orleans, Register of Deaths and Interments, 1858-1883, Congregation Tememe Derech
- New Orleans, St. Patrick’s Cemetery, Record of Deaths, 1841-1842
- New Orleans, Records of St. Mary’s Catholic Cemetery, 7th District
- Online Searchable Death Indexes
- Orleans County, Death Indexes
- Orleans Parish Births, Marriages, and Deaths
- Orleans Parish Death Records & Certificates, 1819-1954; Index to Death Records,1804-1954
- Orleans Parish Death Records and Certificates, 1835-1954
- Orleans Parish Vital Records, 1900-1964
- Orleans Parish Death Certificates, 1854-1869
- Orleans Parish Index to Death Certificates 1927-1929
- Plaquemines County, Death Indexes
- Plaquemines Parish Marriages and Deaths
- Red River Parish Deaths
- Richland County, Death Indexes
- Richland Parish Deaths
- Sabine Parish Obituary Records
- St. John Parish Cemeteries Death Indexes
- Tangipahoa Parish Births, Marriages, and Deaths
- 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
- Vermilion County, Death Indexes
- Vernon Parish Deaths
- Washington County, Death Indexes
- Washington Parish Deaths
- West Carroll County, Death Indexes
- West Feliciana County, Death Indexes
Good Luck and Happy Hunting!