Free Online Mississippi Death Records and Indexes

One of the main goals for genealogists is finding death information about their ancestors.  

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 Mississippi.

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)

Mississippi Death Records

• Adams County Deaths
• Adams County, Deaths
• Adams County, Natchez Death Index, 1835-1905
• Alcorn County Death Records
• Brookhaven Death Index
• Calhoun County, Deaths
• Forrest County Deaths and Marriages Indexes
• Franklin County, Marriage Records, 1879-1954; Deaths 1879
• Hancock County Death Index
• Hancock County, Register of Marriages, Births and Deaths, 1879-1880
• Harrison County, Deaths
• Harrison County, Register of Marriage, Births, Deaths, 1879-1880
• Hinds County, Death Indexes
• Holmes County, Deaths
• Jackson County, Deaths
• Jasper County Deaths
• Lamar County, Deaths
• Lauderdale County, Register of Marriages, Births and Deaths; white and colored, 1879
• Lawrence County Death Index
• Madison County, Deaths
• Marshall County Deaths and Marriages
• Marshall County, Deaths
• Miscellaneous BMD Records by County  
• Mississippi Death Records Statewide Index (1912 – 1943)
• Mississippi Deaths and Burials, 1822-1921
• Mississippi Federal and State Census Mortality Schedules
• Mississippi Mortality Schedules 1850-1880
• Mississippi Mortality Schedules for 1850, 1860, 1870, and 1880
• Mississippi, Death Certificate Index, 1912-1943
• Mississippi, World War I American Expeditionary Forces, Deaths, 1917-1919
• Monroe County Records
• Online Searchable Death Indexes
• Perry County Deaths and Marriages
• Perry County, Deaths
• Pontotoc County, Deaths
• Prentiss, Bethany Baptist Church, Records, Minutes of Meetings and lists of Members, 1820-1949
• Starkville, First Presbyterian Church, Church Records, 1882-1999
• Starkville, Cumberland Presbyterian Church Records
• Starkville, Vernon Cumberland Presbyterian Church Records
• Tallahatchie County, Register of Marriages, Births and Deaths, 1879-1884
• Tippah County, Death notices
• Tishomingo County, Death Indexes
• 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
• Warren County, Deaths
• Wilkinson County, Marriages, 1804-1952; Register of Marriages, Births and Deaths, 1879-1887