The Ancestor Hunt regularly adds and updates new collection links, as well as searches for and fixes broken links.
(This page's most recent update is December 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), 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.
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.
Wisconsin Death Records
- Ashland County Vital Records
- Barron County Death Indexes
- Bayfield County, Vital Records as Published in the Iron River Pioneer
- Brown County Miscellaneous Deaths
- Brown County, Death Index
- Buffalo County, Death Indexes
- Burnett County Births, Marriages, and Deaths
- Calumet County, Death Records, 1900-2001
- Chippewa County Births and Deaths 1886 source – South Chippewa Star
- Chippewa County Births, Marriages and Deaths – 1886 source – Chippewa Falls Workman
- Chippewa County Births, Marriages and Deaths 1870-1874
- Chippewa County Births, Marriages and Deaths 1894 source – The People’s Paper
- Chippewa County Births, Marriages, and Deaths
- Chippewa County Marriages and Deaths – 1895 source – Chippewa Current
- Chippewa County Marriages and Deaths 1866-1872
- Chippewa County, Death Indexes
- Chippewa, Indian Census Rolls, Hayward, 1916-1933
- Clark County Birth, Marriage, and Death Indexes
- Clark County, Death Indexes
- Clark County, Death Record Indexes 1873-1907
- Clintonville Death and Obituary Index
- Columbia County Births, Marriages, and Deaths
- Columbia County, Death Indexes
- Columbia County, Death Records, October – December, 1907
- Crawford County Birth, Marriage, and Death Indexes
- Dane County, Death Indexes
- Dodge County Citizen Newspaper Index: 1856-1914, 1917-1919
- Door County Death Index – 1857 – 1933
- Douglas County, Births, Deaths and Marriages
- Dunn County Death Records, 1832-1979
- Dunn County, Death Record Index
- Eau Claire Birth, Marriage, and Death Indexes
- Eau Claire County Births and Deaths
- Eau Claire County, Coroner’s Docket, 1900-1944
- Eau Claire County, Death Indexes
- Florence County, Death Indexes
- Fond du Lac County, Death Indexes
- Fond du Lac County, Index of Deaths
- Fond du Lac Marriage and Death/Obituary Indexes
- Fond du Lac Public Library Records, 1848-1980
- Fox Lake, Deaths
- Great Lakes, Indian Census Rolls, 1936-1940
- Green County Birth, Marriage, and Death Indexes
- Green County Death and Obituary Indexes
- Green Lake County Marriages and Deaths Indexes
- Heart O’ Wisconsin Genealogical Society, Death Records, Pre-1907
- Iowa County, Death Indexes
- Iron County, Death Indexes
- Jackson County, Death Indexes
- Janesville Death and Obituary Index
- Jefferson County, Death Indexes
- Juneau County Births, Marriages, and Deaths
- Kenosha County Births, Marriages, and Deaths
- Kenosha County, Death Indexes
- Kewaunee County Birth, Marriage, and Death Indexes
- La Crosse Vital Records, 1852-1880
- Lac du Flambeau Agency Vital Records for Bad River Band of Chippewa Indians 1924-1935
- Lac du Flambeau Agency Vital Records for Chippewa Indians 1924-1932
- Lac du Flambeau Agency Vital Records for Lac Courte Oreilles Band Chippewa Indians 1924-1932
- Lac du Flambeau Agency Vital Records for Red Cliff Band of Chippewa Indians 1924-1932
- Lac du Flambeau Agency Vital Records for Wisconsin Potawatomi Band of Chippewa Indians 1924-1935
- LaCrosse Birth, Marriage, and Death Indexes
- Lafayette County, Death Indexes
- Langlade County Birth, Marriage, and Death Indexes pre-1907
- Lincoln County Deaths and Obituary Transcriptions
- Manitowoc County Births, Marriages, and Deaths
- Manitowoc, Death Notice and Obituary Index
- Marathon County Deaths and Obituary Transcriptions
- Marathon County, Death Indexes
- Marathon County, Marriages, Births, Deaths (pre-1880)
- Marquette County, Death Indexes
- Menominee County Birth and Death Indexes
- Menominee County Journal Obituary Index 1893-2017
- Menominee Reservation Vital Records for the Menominee Indians, 1925-1932
- Menominee Reservation Vital Records for the Oneida Indians, 1925-1932
- Milwaukee County Deaths
- Milwaukee County, Death Index
- Milwaukee Jewish Museum Death and Burial Index
- Miscellaneous BMD Records by County
- Monroe County, Death Indexes
- Oneida County, Death Indexes
- Online Searchable Death Indexes
- Oshkosh Death and Obituary Index
- Outagamie County, Appleton Public Library Obituary Index, 1853-2012
- Ozaukee County Birth, Marriage, and Death Indexes
- Ozaukee County, Death Indexes
- Phillips Death and Obituary Index
- Pierce County Birth, Marriage, and Death Indexes
- Pierce County, Death Index
- Polk County Death Index
- Portage County, Death Indexes
- Price County Vital Records
- Racine County Births, Marriages, and Deaths
- Racine County, Death Indexes
- Racine County, Index to Death Records, 1853-1878
- Richland County Death and Obituary Index
- Richland County, Death Indexes
- Ripon Death and Obituary Index
- Rock County Death and Obituary Index
- Rock County, Death Indexes
- Sauk County, Death Indexes
- Sawyer County Death Index
- Shawano and Oconto Counties, Indexes and Records, 1850-2007
- Shawano County Birth, Marriage, and Death Indexes
- Shawano County Death Index, ca. 1845-1939
- Sheboygan County Birth, Marriage, and Death Index
- St. Croix County, Death Indexes
- Taylor County Birth and Death Records
- Taylor County Death and Marriage Index
- Taylor County, Death Indexes
- Trempealeau County Death and Obituary Index
- Trempealeau County Marriage and Death Indexes
- Trempealeau County, Death Indexes
- 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
- Vilas County Death and Obituary Index
- Washburn County Vital Records
- Washington County Births, Marriages, and Deaths
- Waukesha County Death and Obituary Indexes
- Waukesha County, Death Indexes
- Waukesha County, Online Death Indexes and Resources, 1820-1907
- Waupaca County Vital Records Indexes
- Waupaca County, Death Indexes
- Waushara County Death and Obituary Index
- Waushara County, Death Indexes
- Winnebago County, Death Indexes
- Winneconne Birth, Marriage, and Death/Obituary Indexes
- Wisconsin Death Index, 1820-1907
- Wisconsin Death Index, 1959-1997
- Wisconsin Deaths and Burials, 1835-1968
- Wisconsin Federal and State Census Mortality Schedules 1850-1880
- Wisconsin Historical Society Vitals Index, 1852-1907
- Wisconsin Local History and Biographical Articles
- Wisconsin State Death Index 1959-1979
- Wisconsin State Death Index 1979-1984
- Wisconsin, Death Records, 1867-1907
- Wisconsin, World War I American Expeditionary Forces, Deaths, 1917-1919
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