(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 actual death certificates themselves. 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 obituary date 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 Nebraska.
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.
Nebraska Death Records
- Box Butte County Deaths
- Box Butte County, Vital Records, Miscellaneous Data
- Buffalo County, Death Certificates,
- Burt County Vital Records
- Douglas County Death Register Indexes
- Douglas County Deaths
- Greeley County Deaths
- Hamilton County Deaths from Aurora Sun 1885-1888
- Jefferson County, Deaths
- Keith County Death Indexes
- Knox County Death Index
- Lancaster County Records
- Lincoln Vital Records
- Miscellaneous BMD Records by County
- Nebraska Death Index, 1904-1968
- Nebraska Federal and State Census Record Mortality Schedules 1860-1885
- Nebraska Genealogical Collection
- Nebraska, 1885 Mortality List of Cuming, Burt, Colfax, Dodge, Washington, Saunders, Douglas Counties
- Nebraska, World War I American Expeditionary Forces, Deaths, 1917-1919
- Nebraska, Miscellaneous Records: 1856-1972
- Omaha Area Deaths
- Online Searchable Death Indexes
- Phelps County, Obituaries, 1881-2017
- Pierce County Call and Pierce County Leader Death and Obituary Index
- Platte County Births, Marriages and Deaths from Newspapers
- Platte County, Deaths
- Red Willow County Death Indexes
- Sherman County Deaths 1917-1919
- 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
- Washington County Death Index
- Wayne County, Salem United Church of Christ Church Records, 1901-1946
- Webster County Death Index
- Winnebago Agency Vital Statistics: Births, Marriages and Deaths, 1863-1947
- Winnebago Agency, Indian Census Rolls, 1904-1939
- York County, Metz Mortuary Death Index
Good Luck and Happy Hunting!