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 of Oklahoma.
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 October 2023)
Oklahoma Death Records
- Adair County Local Registrar’s Death Records, 1908-1968
- Anadarko Agency, Comanche Indian Census, ca. 1895-1915
- Anadarko, Wichita Indian Census, 1895-1924
- Anadarko, Vital Records, 1918-1947
- Ardmore, Rose Hill Cemetery, Confederate Graves
- Beckham County, Death Indexes
- Blaine County Miscellaneous Records 1891-1929
- Caddo County, Church Records, 1889-1974
- Cheyenne and Arapaho, Indian Census Rolls, 1887-1939
- Choctaw County, Death Records
- Choctaw Nation, Blue County, Mt. Pleasant Mission and Church Records, ca. 1844-1946
- Cleveland County Coroner’s Post-mortem Records, 1893-1903
- Cleveland County, Cemeteries
- Cleveland County, Meyer and Meyer Funeral Home Records, 1918-1929; Index, 1918-1958
- Comanche County Native American Death and Obituary Index
- Concho Agency, Census Records, 1879-1943
- Craig County Births and Deaths 1908-1912
- Delaware County, Register of Births and Deaths, 1913-1916
- Department of Health Death Index
- Ellis County Vital Statistics, 1957-1990
- Ellis County, Death Indexes
- Fletcher, Fletcher, Cemetery, Cemetery Records, ca. 1904-2000
- Frederick, First Methodist Church, Church Records, 1903-1983
- Garvin County, Deaths
- Geary, Cemetery Records and Index, 1900-1982
- Granite, Records of First Presbyterian Church, 1912-1948
- Grant County, Deaths
- Greer County Births and Deaths, 1912-1918
- Greer County Death Indexes 1912-1918
- Greer County, Death Indexes
- Harmon County Death Records (Harmon County, Oklahoma), 1924-1973
- Healdton, Spivey Funeral Home, Records, 1926-2005
- Kaw Reservation Register of Vital Statistics 1931-1951
- Kiowa Agency, Agency Records, 1892-1947
- Kiowa Agency, Apache Indian Census, 1896-1930
- Kiowa Agency, Kiowa Indian Census, 1895-1934
- Kiowa Indian Agency Records, 1919
- Kiowa, Comanche, Apache & Ft. Sill Apache Indian Vital Records at Kiowa Agency, Oklahoma Territory, 1924-1937
- Lawton, Catholic Church, Blessed Sacrament, Parish Registers, ca. 1902-1959
- Lawton, Highland Cemetery, Cemetery Records, 1901-1994; Index, 1901-1994
- Lawton, First Christian Church, Church Records, 1908-1947
- Lawton, First United Methodist Church, Church Records, 1901-1960
- Lincoln County Oklahoma, Lincoln County Miscellaneous Records, 1891-1925; Indexes, 1892-1921
- Madill, Watts Funeral Home Records 1926-2005
- Major County, Deaths
- Marshall County, Cemetery Records
- Mayes County Deaths
- McClain County, Death Records
- Miami, Oklahoma, Miami Daily Record-Herald and District Daily News 1916-1922 Vital Records Index
- Miami, Ottawa County Cemetery, Oct 27, 1966-June 2003
- Miscellaneous BMD Records by County
- Muskogee County Funeral Home Indexes (Includes Death Dates)
- Muskogee, Bloom Funeral Home, Funeral Home Records, 1905-1916
- Native American Death and Obituary Index
- Noble County, Parker Funeral Home, Funeral Records, 1908-1982
- Norman Transcript Newspaper Clipping Collection of Births, Deaths, Reunions and Marriages 1940-1941
- Nowata, United Methodist Church, Church Records, 1920-1945
- Okfuskee County Birth and Death Records, 1909-1922
- Oklahoma City Deaths
- Oklahoma County, Death Indexes
- Oklahoma County, Deaths
- Oklahoma Deaths and Burials, 1864-1941
- Oklahoma Explore Death Index
- Oklahoma, Cemetery Index
- Oklahoma, World War I American Expeditionary Forces, Deaths, 1917-1919
- Online Searchable Death Indexes
- Osage Agency, Agency Records, 1858-1952
- Osage County, Death Indexes
- Ottawa County Fragments of extinct County Newspapers, 1904-1949: Newspapers Vital Statistics Index
- Ottawa County Miami News Record Vital Statistics Index
- Ottawa County, Indian Territory Early Newspapers Index: Fairland, Picher, Quapaw and Wyandotte 1895-1934
- Ottawa County, Miami Oklahoma News-Record Newspapers Vital Statistics Index
- Pawnee Agency, Otoe-Missouri Tribe Records, 1895-1944
- Pawnee Agency, Ponca Tribe Records, 1886-1952
- Pawnee Agency, Register of Vital Statistics, 1909-1952; Delayed Birth Certificates, 1944-1952
- Pawnee, Kaw, Ponca, Otoe, and Tonkawa Indian Tribes Register of Births and Deaths 1915-1929
- Picher, Tri-State Tribune Newspaper Vital Records Index 1939-1944
- Pittsburg County Death Index
- Purcell, Hillside Cemetery, Cemetery Register, ca. 1891-1997; Index ca. 1891-1997
- Pushmataha County, Deaths, 1900-1925
- Quapaw Agency, Agency Records, 1872-1948
- Roger Mills County Miscellaneous Records 1892-1922
- Sequoyah County, Deaths
- Shawnee Agency, Agency Records, 1890-1943
- Spiro, Fisher Funeral Home, Funeral Home Records, 1961-1994
- Stephens County Death Records 1957-1965
- Tillman County Birth and Death Records,1917
- Tonkawa Tribe Records, 1895-1952
- Tulsa County, Rose Hill Memorial Park Interment Records, ca.1915 – ca.1982
- Tulsa Newspaper Death Index
- Tulsa, Clinton Oaks Cemetery
- 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
- Weatherford, Lockstone Funeral Home, Death Certificates and Funeral Home Records, 1918-1995
- Wichita, Caddo, Delaware Indians Vital Records at Kiowa Agency, Oklahoma Territory, 1926-1935
- Wilson, Alexander Funeral Home Records, 1926-2004
- Woods County Births, Deaths and Marriages from the Ames Enterprise, 1901-1905
- Woodward County, O.L. Callaway Mortuary Records, 1929-1933
For all Free Oklahoma Links, click on the category of interest:
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