Online Death Certificates - Updated

Online Death Certificates and Records - USA
This article was updated on 17 May 2013.

Here is a list of some collections of online digitized death certificates or death ledgers (some are free, some fee-based). Note that some death certificate images at these websites may be unavailable because of errors or other reasons. And some of the databases listed here may be incomplete.

Arizona
Arizona Death Certificates 1844-1962 (free) also includes birth certificates 1855-1937

Delaware
FamilySearch has Delaware Death Records 1855-1961. (free)

District of Columbia
FamilySearch has District of Columbia Death Certificates and Records 1874-1959 (free)

Georgia
Scanned Georgia death certificates are available online for 1919-1930 (free). See: Online Georgia Death Records and Indexes

Idaho
FamilySearch has Idaho Death Certificates 1911-1937 (free)

Illinois: Chicago and Cook County
The Cook County Clerk's office has birth certificates more than 75 years old, marriage certificates more than 50 years old, and death certificates more than 20 years old available online for a fee. The records go back as far as 1872 -- earlier records were lost in the Chicago Fire of 1871. See: Online Chicago and Cook County Death Records Indexes and Obituaries (free and fee-based listings)

Kentucky
As part of their subscription-based collection of genealogy records, Ancestry has digitized Kentucky death certificates from 1911-1953. See: Online Kentucky Death Records Indexes and Obituaries

Massachusetts
FamilySearch has Massachusetts Death Records 1841-1915. (free)

Michigan

• FamilySearch has scanned Michigan death ledgers from 1867-1897. Note these are not death certificates, but death registers or ledgers. (free)
• Michigan Death Records 1897-1920 (99% complete) from the Archives of Michigan and the Library of Michigan (free)

Missouri
Missouri Death Certificates 1910-1962 (free) from the Missouri State Archives

New Hampshire
FamilySearch has New Hampshire Death Records 1654-1947 with scanned images. (free)

North Carolina
As part of their collection of online genealogy records, Ancestry has scanned North Carolina death certificates from 1909-1975 available for downloading (subscription required). And FamilySearch has digitized North Carolina death records from 1906-1930 (free to download). For information on these see: Online North Carolina Death Records Indexes and Obituaries

Ohio
FamilySearch has scanned Ohio death certificates from 1908-1953. (free)

Pennsylvania: Philadelphia and Pittsburgh
FamilySearch has scanned Philadelphia City death certificates from 1803-1915 and Pittsburgh City death records from 1870-1905. (free)

South Carolina
As part of their collection of online genealogy records, Ancestry has digitized South Carolina death certificates from 1915-1955 (subscription required). And FamilySearch has digitized South Carolina death records from 1915-1943 (free to download). For information on these see: Online South Carolina Death Records Indexes and Obituaries

Tennessee
FamilySearch (free) has Tennessee Death Records 1914-1955; and Ancestry (fee-based) has Tennessee Death Records and Certificates 1908-1959 (except 1913). For information see: Online Tennessee Death Records and Indexes

Texas
FamilySearch (free) and Fold3 (fee-based) have scanned Texas death certificates at their websites. For information see: Online Texas Death Records and Indexes

Utah
Utah Death Certificates 1904-1961 (free)

Vermont
As part of their collection of online genealogy records, Ancestry has digitized Vermont death certificates from 1909-2008 (subscription required). For information on these see: Online Vermont Death Records Indexes and Obituaries

West Virginia
West Virginia Death Certificates and Records 1853-1970 (free) coverage varies by county - also has birth and marriage records

Other States - Death Indexes
For a directory of online death indexes, including some cemetery records, obituaries, and probate records see: Online Searchable Death Indexes and Records