Free Online New York 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 New York.

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)

New York Death Records

• Albany County Death Indexes
• Allegany County Births, Marriages, and Deaths
• Allegany County Deaths
• Baldwinsville, N.Y. Vital Records: Marriages, 1883-1907, Births, 1883-1938, Deaths 1883-1963
• Binghamton, Death Notices published in the Broome County Republican, from 1831-1870
• Boonville Newspapers Death and Marriage Notices, 1857-1858-1859
• Brockport Deaths 1856-1923
• Brockport Deaths, 1925-1953 
• Broome County Birth, Marriage, and Death Indexes
• Broome County Records, 1847, 1848, 1849, 1850
• Broome County Births, Marriages, Deaths, 1847-1850
• Broome County Vital Statistics, 1847-1850, 1865, 1875
• Buffalo and Erie County Births, Marriages, and Deaths
• Buffalo Death Index 1852-1944
• Buffalo Miscellaneous Vital Records
• Buffalo, St. Paul’s Episcopal Church Records, 1812-1970
• Camden Newspapers Death and Marriage Notices, 1851, 1852, 1853
• Canajoharie, Register of Deaths, 1884-1908
• Cato, Cayuga County Vital Records
• Cattaraugus (Seneca Indian) Reservation Records
• Cayuga County Birth, Marriage, and Death Indexes
• Cayuga County Births, Marriages, and Deaths
• Cayuga County Deaths and Marriages from Cayuga County Newspapers, 1825-1834
• Charleston, Montgomery County, Register of Marriages, Deaths, and Births, 1883-1909
• Chautauqua County Birth, Baptism, Marriage, and Death Indexes
• Chautauqua County Vital Records
• Chemung County Birth and Death Indexes 
• Chenango County Marriages, Births, Deaths before 1880
• Chenango County Vital Record Indexes pre-1880
• Chenango County, Deaths from Sherburne Newspapers, 1864-1900
• Chenango County,  Vital Records Reported before 1880
• Columbia County Marriages and Deaths, 1807
• Connetquot Library Death Index
• Cortland County Deaths
• Cortland County Marriages and Deaths, 1807-1900
• Dansville Deaths 
• Delaware County Birth, Marriage, and Death Indexes
• Delaware County Deaths
• Delaware County Births, Deaths, Marriages, 1847-1848
• Delhi, Delaware County, Deaths, 1819-1879
• DeRuyter Weekly Gleaner Vital Records Sept. 16th, 1878 to Jan. 11th, 1883
• Dutchess County, Death Indexes
• Ephratah, Fulton County Vital Records; Deaths, 1887-1913
• Essex County Deaths
• Essex County, Death Indexes
• Florida, Montgomery County, Record of Deaths
• Franklin County Vital Records Indexes
• Fulton County Birth, Marriage, and Death Indexes
• Fulton County Vital Records, 1847-1849, 1868-1871, 1875, 1889
• Glen, Montgomery County, Register of Births, Deaths, and Marriages, 1884-1910; Delayed Registration of Births, 1930-1970
• Goshen Death Index
• Grand Island Deaths
• Hamilton, Madison County, Deaths, Births, and Marriages from Newspapers, 1818-1886
• Herkimer County Birth, Marriage, and Death Indexes
• Herkimer County Vital Records 1847-1849
• Herkimer County Vital Records, 1847-1849
• Huntington (including Babylon), Long Island, Vital Sttatistics, Marriages, Births & Deaths, 1847-1848-1849
• Jefferson County Vital Records
• Kings County Birth, Marriage, and Death Indexes
• Kings, Richmond County and Queens County, New York Death Database
• Lenox, Record of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1849
• Lewis County Vital Records Indexes
• Lewis County Birth and Death Card Index, 1848-1851
• Lewis County, Death Indexes
• Livingston County Marriage and Death Indexes
• Livingston County Marriage and Death Index
• Long Islander, Marriages-Deaths Index ​1839-1864, 
• Madison County Marriages and Deaths from early Madison County Newspapers and Record of Births, Marriages and Deaths of Cazenovia 1847-1848
• Madison County Marriages, Births, Deaths before 1870
• Madison County Marriages, Births, Deaths before 1870
• Madison County, Lenox Baptist Church (Clockville)  Records
• Manhattan, Deaths reported in 1901
• Manhattan, Deaths reported in 1902
• Middletown Death Index
• Miscellaneous BMD Records by County
• Miscellaneous Vital Records by County
• Monroe County Vital Records
• Montgomery County Birth, Marriage, and Death Indexes
• Morrisville and Madison County, Death Notices,  1840-1844
• Nassau County – West Hempstead Death Index
• New Woodstock and surrounding areas Marriages, Births, Deaths 1912-1926
• New York Church Vital Records by County
• New York City Municipal Deaths, 1795-1949
• New York City, Church of the Transfiguration Records, 1847-1938
• New York City, Saint Peter’s Lutheran Church Records, 1862-1955
• New York City, Vital Records, 1686-1706, 1807
• New York Deaths and Burials, 1795-1952
• New York Evening Post, Deaths from November 16, 1801 to May 22, 1822
• New York Federal and State Mortality Schedules 1850-1880
• New York State Death Index (1880-1956)
• New York State Death Index 1957-
• New York State Health Department, Genealogical Research Death Index, 1957-1963
• New York State Vital Records mid-1800s by County
• New York Weekly Museum Marriage and Death Notices 1789-1796
• New York, Church and Civil Deaths, 1824-1962
• New York, New York, Extracted Death Index, 1862-1948
• New York, State Death Index, 1880-1956
• New York, State Death Index, 1880-1956
• Niagara County Miscellaneous Vital Records
• Niagara County Vital Record Card Index
• Norwich Newspaper Items 1847-1856, local Newspaper Index to 1940
• Oneida County Births, Marriages, and Deaths
• Oneida County Death Index
• Oneida County Deaths
• Oneida Sachem Marriages and Deaths 1855-1862
• Oneida Weekly Dispatch, Oneida Deaths and Marriages 1863-1869
• Online Searchable Death Indexes
• Onondaga County Miscellaneous Records
• Onondaga County, Death Indexes
• Onondaga Gazette 1846-1869  Miscellaneous Newspaper Extracts
• Ontario County Birth, Marriage, and Death Indexes
• Orange County Miscellaneous Church Marriages and Death Records
• Orange County Records
• Orleans County Deaths
• Orleans County Birth, Marriage, and Death Returns from Various Towns, 1847-1849
• Oswego County Deaths and Marriages
• Otsego County Birth, Marriage, and Death Indexes
• Otsego County, Death Indexes
• Palatine, Montgomery County Vital Records; Deaths, 1882-1908
• Palatine, Record of Deaths, Jan. 1st, 1902 to May 1916
• Palmyra Births, Marriages and Death Notices 1886-1895
• Poughkeepsie Newspapers Notices of Marriages and Deaths 1778-1825
• Preble, Cortland County, Vital Records, 1847-1860
• Rensselaer County Church Vital Indexes
• Rensselaer County Death Records
• Rensselaer County Marriage and Death Indexes
• Rensselaer County–Deaths, 1847-1851
• Richmond County Birth, Marriage, and Death Indexes
• Saratoga County Birth, Marriage, and Death Indexes
• Saratoga Springs Births, Marriages, and Deaths Index
• Schenectady County Death Indexes
• Schoharie County Birth, Marriage, and Death Indexes
• Schoharie County Vital Records Indexes
• Schoharie County Miscellaneous Records, 1851-1921
• Schuyler County Online Vital Records
• Seneca County Marriage and Death Indexes
• Sherburne, Chenango County Vital Records 1847-1850
• St. Johnsville, Montgomery County, Records of Deaths, 1883-1934
• St. Lawrence County Births, Marriages and Deaths 1847-1849
• St. Lawrence County Vital Records Indexes
• St. Lawrence County from the Gouverneur Herald, Births, Deaths, and Marriages 1864-1902, as clipped 
• Steuben County Vital Records Indexes
• Steuben County, Death Indexes
• Steuben County, New York, Newspapers, Marriages and Deaths 1797-1868
• Suffolk County Marriage and Death Indexes
• Suffolk County Records of Births, Marriages, Deaths
• Suffolk County Vital Records Indexes
• Suffolk County, Death Indexes
• Syracuse and Onondaga County Vital Records
• Syracuse Chronicle Marriages and Deaths, 1849-1853
• Syracuse Daily Journal Records of Deaths and Marriages, 1850-1858
• Syracuse Daily Journal Records of Deaths and Marriages, 1877-188
• Syracuse Daily Standard, the Daily Courier, Syracuse Daily Journal; Records, Deaths and Marriages, 1870-1876
• Syracuse, Deaths and Marriages from the “Syracuse Star” and the “Syracuse Journal” 1846-1850; Deaths from Boyd’s  Syracuse Directory, 1871-1876
• Tioga County Miscellaneous Records, 1829-1964
• Tompkins County Birth and Death Indexes
• Troy Daily Times Vital Records 1861-1881
• Troy Daily Whig Vital Records 1834-1863
• Truxton and Cuyler, Cortland County, Vital Records, 1847-1849
• Ulster County Births, Deaths and Marriages (1847-1850, 1873-1884)
• Ulster County Death Indexes
• Unadilla, New York and Vicinity (Otsego, Delaware and Chenango Counties) Marriages, Births and Deaths 1870’s, 1880’s and 1890’s
• 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
• Utica Daily Gazette Deaths and Marriages in 1850
• Utica Newspapers Death & Marriage Notices 1827-1880
• Utica Vital Records 1831
• Utica Weekly Utica Democrat Marriages and Deaths 31 March 1840 – 2 December 1845
• Utica, N.Y. Newspapers Marriages & Deaths 1827-1849
• Van Buren and Lysander Early Marriages and Deaths, 1862-1875
• Van Buren Vital Records
• Vital Records from the Newspapers of Cortland County, New York, 1815- 1840
• Vital Records of Central New York, 1813-1850
• Vital Records of Eastern New York, 1777-1834
• Vital Records of Western New York, 1809-1850
• Warren County, Death Indexes
• Washington County Birth, Marriage, and Death Indexes
• Washington County Birth and Death Records, 1847-1849
• Waterloo, Seneca Falls, Ovid, Trumansburg and Geneva, Marriages and Deaths from Newspapers 1807-1908
• Wayne County Births, Marriages, and Deaths
• Wayne County Vital Statistics and Index, 1847-1850
• Wayne Sentinel Newspaper, Marriage & Death 1823-1840, 1841-1842
• Westchester County, Yonkers, Death Records, 1875-1889
• Westchester Records 1665-1827
• Yates County Vital Records Indexes
• Yates County, Death Indexes
• Yates County, Swann Vital Records Collection, 1723-2009
• Yates County, Swann Vital Records Collection, 1723-2009
• Yonkers, Birth and Death Registration and Indexes, 1875-1916
• Yorktown, Westchester County, Vital Records 1848-1849