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 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)
Missouri Death Records
- Adair County, Death Indexes
- Andrew County Register and Permanent Record of Deaths, 1883-1893
- Andrew County, Death Indexes
- Atchison County Deaths
- Audrain County Register and Permanent Record of Deaths, 1883-1886
- Audrain County, Death Indexes
- Barry County Deaths
- Barry County Births and Deaths, 1883-1885
- Barry County, Death Indexes
- Barry County, Death Indexes
- Barton County, Death Indexes
- Bates County, Death Indexes
- Benton County Permanent Records of Births and Deaths, 1883-1890
- Benton County, Death Indexes
- Bollinger County Death Indexes
- Bollinger County, Death Indexes
- Boone County, Death Indexes
- Buchanan County Death Indexes 1883-1893
- Buchanan County Record of Deaths, 1883-1893
- Buchanan County, Death Indexes
- Butler County Death Index
- Caldwell County Death Indexes
- Callaway County Death Index
- Callaway County, Death Indexes
- Cape Girardeau County Record of Deaths, 1883-1893
- Cape Girardeau County, Death Indexes
- Cape Girardeau County, Death Register, 1883-1893
- Carroll County Permanent Record of Births and Deaths 1883-1895, 1927
- Carroll County, Death Indexes
- Carroll County, Death Indexes
- Cass County Earliest Records 1836-1861
- Cass County, Death Indexes
- Clark County, Death Indexes
- Clay County, Death Indexes
- Clinton County Permanent Record and Register of Deaths 1883-1895
- Clinton County, Death Indexes
- Clinton County, Death Notices 1908-1910, June, from Area Newspapers
- Cole County Register of Deaths, v. 1, 1883-1906
- Cooper County Deaths
- Cooper County Birth and Death Records, 1883-1894
- Cooper County, Death Indexes
- Crawford County, Death Indexes
- Dade County Birth and Death Records, 1883-1885
- Dallas County, Death Indexes
- Death Records from Missouri Newspapers, January 1854-December 1860
- Death Records of Missouri Men from Newspapers, 1808-1854
- Death Records of Pioneer Missouri Women, 1808-1849
- Deaths and Burial Information for Several Townships in Missouri
- Dekalb County Deaths from Area Newspapers 1907-1910
- DeKalb County Register of Deaths 1883-1887
- Dent County Births, Marriages, and Deaths
- Dent County, Records, 1850 to 1900 : Census, Marriage, Deaths and Wills
- Franklin County, Death Indexes
- Gentry County Births, Marriages, and Deaths
- Gentry County, Death Indexes
- Grundy County Birth Records, 1847-1866, 1883-1893; Death Records, 1883-1892
- Grundy County, Death Indexes
- Henry County Death Indexes and Certificates
- Holt County Deaths pre-1910
- Howard County Record of Deaths, 1883-1888
- Howell County Miscellaneous Record, v. 1, 1874-1895
- Iron County, Death Indexes
- Jackson County Vital Historical Records 1826-1876
- Jackson County, Registers and Permanent Records of Births and Deaths, 1883-1895
- Jasper County Miscellaneous Births and Deaths
- Jefferson County Newspaper Index Database
- Jefferson County Permanent Record and Register of Births, still Births, 1883-1892 and Deaths, 1883-1892
- Johnson County Birth, Marriage, and Death Indexes
- Lincoln County Register of Deaths,1883-1884
- Lincoln County, Death Indexes
- Livingston County Death Records 1883-1890
- Macon County Register of Deaths, 1883-1893
- Macon County, Death Indexes
- Marion County Vital Records
- Marion County Register of Deaths, v. A1-A2, 1883-1930
- Marion County, Death Indexes
- McDonald County Death and Obituary Index, 1899-2008
- McDonald County Death Index
- Miller County Deaths
- Miller County Birth & Death Records
- Miller County Births, 1883-1891; Deaths, 1883-1889
- Miller County, Death Indexes
- Miscellaneous BMD Records by County
- Miscellaneous Records of Missouri, 1820-1870
- Missouri Birth & Death Records Database, Pre-1910 (Births);1910-1966 (Deaths)
- Missouri Coroner’s Inquest Database
- Missouri Death Certificates 1910-1967
- Missouri Deaths and Burials, 1867-1976
- Missouri Deaths, 1883-1930
- Missouri Register of Deaths, 1850-1909
- Missouri, Death Certificates, 1910-1962
- Missouri, World War I American Expeditionary Forces, Deaths, 1917-1919
- Missouri. State Archives Miscellaneous Public Records, 1840-1881
- Moniteau County Deaths 1883-1894
- Moniteau County, Death Indexes
- Monroe County Marriage Records Book “A” 1831-1849 and the Death Register 1883-1885
- Monroe County Marriage Records, Book “A,” 1831-1849, and the Death Register, 1883-1885
- Monroe County Death Records and Register, v. 1, 1883-1885
- Montgomery County, Death Indexes
- Morgan County Miscellaneous Records
- Morgan County Circuit Court Record Book, 1833-1867
- Morgan County Permanent Record of Births, Permanent Record of Deaths
- Morgan County Register of Deaths, no. 1, 1883-1886
- Morgan County, Death Indexes
- Newton County Death Index pre-1909
- Newton County Births and Deaths, 1883-1885
- Newton County Register of Deaths, v. 1, 1883-1885
- Nodaway County Death Index
- Online Searchable Death Indexes
- Osage County, Death Indexes
- Ozark County, Records and Pioneer Families
- Phelps County Deaths 1874-1912
- Phelps County, Birth & Death Records 1883, 1884, and Incomplete to 1890, 1883-1890
- Pike County, Death Indexes
- Polk County, Death Indexes
- Ralls County Permanent Record of Deaths, vol. A, 1883-1884: Register of Deaths, vol. A, 1883-1886
- Randolph County Deaths
- Randolph County, Death Indexes
- Ray County Death Certificates 1910-1960
- Ray County Death Indexes
- Ray County Record of Births and Deaths 1883-1890
- Ray County, Death Indexes
- Reynolds County Registers and Permanent Records of Births and Deaths, 1883-1886
- Ripley County Miscellaneous Records, 1833-1956
- Saline County, Birth and Death Records, 1883, 1884, 1885
- Scotland County Births and Deaths, 1883-1889
- Scott County Death Indexes
- Scott County, Death Indexes
- Scott County, Register of Deaths, Permanent Record of Deaths
- Shannon County Death Certificates
- St. Francois County Birth and Death Records, 1883-1893, 1924-1931
- St. Louis County Miscellaneous Records, 1802-1892
- Stoddard County, Death Indexes
- Sullivan County Deaths
- Texas County Births and Deaths, 1883-1895
- Texas 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
- Vernon County, Death Indexes
- Warren County Permanent Record and Registration of Births and still Births, 1883-1889, and Deaths, 1883-1894
- Washington County Permanent Record of Births, 1883-1895; Permanent Record of Deaths, 1883-1895, 1972-1976.
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