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 are 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 1: Many of the links listed below take you to a FamilySearch Collection of digital images. In many cases there is a link to the digital collection in the middle of the page, but also 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. Please also note that I have listed below only BMD databases that are accessible digitally from your computer (or tablet/phone)
Note 2: 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 December 2021; recently added links are in BOLD):
- Beaver County Death Registers. 1900-1905
- Beaver County Miscellaneous Deaths
- Beaver County, Death Records, 1881-1949
- Box Elder County Miscellaneous Deaths
- Box Elder County Records, 1856-1960
- Box Elder County, Birth/Death Certificates
- Box Elder County, Newspaper Card Index : Historical, Biographical, Vital Records
- Cache County Vital Records, 1861-1955
- Carbon County Births and Deaths Indexes
- Carbon County Death and Obituary Index
- Carbon County, Death Indexes
- Davis County Records
- Davis County Vital Records, 1869-1953
- Davis County, Bountiful District, Death Records, 1905-1942
- Davis County, Clearfield, Death Records, 1952-1953
- Davis County, Death Records, 1898-1966
- Davis County, Death Records, 1915-1952
- Davis County, Kaysville, Death Records, 1905-1953
- Deaths and Obituary Clippings from Utah Newspapers, 1850-2005
- Deseret News Semi-Weekly Death and Marriage Notices, 1865-1900
- Deseret News Weekly Death and Marriage Notices, 1852-1888
- Duchesne County, Death Records, 1965-1966
- Emery County, Death Records, 1965-1966
- Eureka and Payson, Births and Deaths, 1898-1903
- Garfield County, Death Indexes
- Garfield County, Death Records, 1965
- Grand County, Death Records, 1965-1966
- Iron County, Death Indexes
- Iron County, Death Records, 1965-1966
- Juab County Vital Records, 1847-1948
- Juab County, Death Indexes
- Juab County, Death Records, 1965-1966
- Kane County, Death Indexes
- Kane County, Death Records, 1965-1966
- Logan Vital Statistics
- Logan, Vital Statistics, Cache County
- Millard County Death Certificates Transcriptions 1904-1907
- Millard County, Death Indexes
- Millard County, Death Records, 1965
- Miscellaneous BMD Records by County
- Morgan, Piute and Rich Counties, Death Records, 1965-1966
- ObitsUtah Death Index
- Online Searchable Death Indexes
- Rich County, Death Indexes
- Salt Lake County, Death Records (1847-1949)
- Salt Lake County, Death Records, 1849-1966
- San Juan County, Death Records, 1965
- Sanpete County Death Register, 1898-1905
- Sanpete County, Death Records, 1965-1966
- Sevier County, Death Indexes
- Sevier County, Death Records, 1965-1966
- St. George & Washington, Births, Marriages & Deaths, 1963-1970
- Summit County, Death Records, 1965-1966
- Tooele County Vital Records, 1855-1956
- Tooele County, Death Records, 1965-1966
- Tremonton and Garland Deaths and Obituary Clippings 1959-2013
- Uintah County, Death Indexes
- Uintah County, Death Records, 1965-1966
- 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
- Utah County Vital Records, 1850-1962
- Utah County, Death Records, 1898-1966
- Utah Death and Burial Index
- Utah Death Certificate Index, 1905-1965
- Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1951
- Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1964
- Utah Death Certificates, 1952-1956
- Utah Deaths and Burials, 1888-1946
- Utah Federal Census Mortality Schedules 1850-1880
- Utah, Death Certificates, 1957-1958
- Utah, Death Records, 1959-1964
- Utah, Death Register, 1898-1905
- Utah, Deaths and Burials, 1888-1946
- Utah, Military Death Records for WWII and Korean War, 1941-1953
- Wasatch County, Death Records, 1965-1966
- Washington and Wayne Counties, Death Records, 1965-1966
- Weber County Death Index
- Weber County, Death Indexes
- Weber County, Death Records, 1965
Good Luck and Happy Hunting!
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