Online Iowa Death Indexes, Records and Obituaries

Online Iowa Death Indexes, Cemetery Burials and Obituaries

Iowa Newspapers Obituaries Archive (recent) (copies of individual obituaries can be obtained online for a fee) includes...
- Ames Tribune (11/7/2000-Current)
- Bettendorf News (2/5/2004-Current)
- Burlington Hawk Eye (1/1/2003-Current)
- Cedar Rapids-Iowa City Gazette (1/4/1992-Current)
- Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil (1/1/2009-Current)
- Dubuque Telegraph Herald (8/30/1995-Current)
- Newton Daily News (1/2/2006-Current)
- Quad-City Times (1/1/2003-Current) for Davenport (IA), Bettendorf (IA), Moline (IL) and Rock Island (IL)
- Sioux City Journal (3/2/2005-Current)
- Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier (1/4/2001-Current)
- And more Iowa newspapers

State Historical Society of Iowa Death Indexes c.1917-c.1933 PDF files for some Iowa counties; coverage varies by county

Adair County Obituaries and Death Notices various years - also includes birth and marriage records
Cherokee County: Oak Hill Cemetery Burials (Cherokee, Iowa)
Davis County Cemetery Records
Des Moines City - see Polk County below
Des Moines County...
- Des Moines County, Iowa Cemetery Transcriptions
- Des Moines County: Burlington Public Library Genealogy Index indexes birth and marriage announcements, and obituaries in local newspapers from the 1830s-1897
Dickinson County: Spirit Lake Public Library Local Cemetery Records
Dubuque County, Iowa Cemeteries
Harrison County GenWeb Site includes cemeteries, probate records, death index 1880-1910 and obituaries
Jasper County Probate Index 1890-1926 also has an index for some earlier records
Jasper County: City of Newton - Union Cemetery Burials
Jones County Death Register 1880-1897, and Cemetery Records
Linn County Obituary Index 1930-1980s
Louisa County Cemeteries
Mills County Iowa Death Index 1880-1899, plus Obituaries and Cemeteries
Muscatine County: Musser Public Library Birth, Marriage and Death Index 1840-present (also has a probate records index)
Page County and Taylor County: Eickemeyer Funeral Chapel Obituaries 1993-present in Clarinda and Bedford, Iowa
Polk County: Des Moines Obituary Index
Pottawattamie County: Daily Nonpareil (newspaper) Index June 1998-present from the Council Bluffs Public Library
Pottawattamie County Genealogical Society includes death and cemetery listings, probate records and more
Poweshiek County: Drake Community Library Obituary Database
Scott County Obituaries Indexes (Davenport Area) also includes marriage and census indexes - click on "free local databases" when you get there
Story County Death Certificate Index mid 1904-1916 surnames a-i only
Taylor County Tombstone Inscriptions and Cemetery Burials
Taylor County - also see Page County above
Woodbury County: The Sioux City Journal Index December 1981-present includes Siouxland news and obituaries

Iowa Cemetery Records Online - including WPA Records...

Iowa WPA Graves Survey - 1930s some counties not included - index of over 650,000 burials in Iowa
- Iowa Gravestone Photo Project has over 840,000 entries
Iowa Cemetery Records Index (WPA) at Ancestry (requires payment) includes 76 Iowa counties plus Graceland Cemetery in Sioux City; most records are prior to the late 1930s; has over 685,000 records

Order Iowa Vital Records...

Iowa Department of Public Health - Vital Records information on ordering birth, marriage and death certificates by mail (fees and restrictions apply)

Also Helpful...

Iowa Genealogy Databases at Ancestry (requires payment)
includes census, military and vital records, plus newspapers and city directories

Online Iowa Death Records and Indexes

A Genealogy Records Guide