Free Online Nebraska Death Records and Indexes

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 Nebraska.

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)

Nebraska Death Records

• Box Butte County Deaths
• Buffalo County, Death Certificates, 
• Burt County Vital Records
• 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 Federal and State Census Record Mortality Schedules 1860-1885
• Nebraska Genealogical Collection
• 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