Online Maryland Death Records & Indexes

Online Maryland Death Indexes and Obituaries

• Maryland Death Index 1898-1951 scanned index cards grouped by years

• Maryland Obituaries Archive - Recent (you can obtain copies of individual obituaries online for a fee) includes these newspapers...
  • Annapolis Capital (4/2/2002-Current)
  • Baltimore Sun (10/1/1990-Current)
  • Bowie Blade News (10/3/2002-Current)
  • Glen Burnie, Maryland Gazette (4/6/2002-Current)
  • Salisbury Daily Times (1/15/1999-Current)
  • South County Gazette (Annapolis, MD) - (1/9/2003-6/10/2004)
  • West County News (Annapolis, MD) - (11/14/2002-Current, 8/27/2004-3/16/2005 unavailable)
  • And about 8 more Maryland newspapers

Baltimore City and County

• Baltimore City Death Index 1875-1972 listed by year and letter
• Assorted Baltimore City and County Cemeteries includes Falls Road United Methodist Church Cemetery, Govans Presbyterian Cemetery, Grace Falls Road United Methodist Church Cemetery, Immanuel Lutheran Cemetery, Mays Chapel United Methodist Church Cemetery, Mount Zion United Methodist Church Cemetery, St. Mary's Catholic Cemetery, St. Paul's Lutheran Cemetery
• Death Notices & Obituaries from Baltimore Area Newspapers including Anne Arundel County, Baltimore County & Howard County
• Jednosc-Polonia Death Notice Index Search 1926-1946 index to the obituaries & death notices appearing in the Jednosc-Polonia (Baltimore Polish Language Newspaper)
• Baltimore County Marriage & Death Notice Archive 1850-1859
• Scanned searchable books at Ancestry - these require an Ancestry subscription...
  • Index to Marriages and Deaths in the Baltimore Sun 1837-1850
  • Index to Marriages and Deaths in the Baltimore Sun 1851-1860
  • A Record of Interments at the Friends Burial Ground, Baltimore, Maryland (Quaker)
• Note that Baltimore City & Baltimore County have been separate entities since 1851

Other Maryland Counties

• Frederick County Gazette Obituaries starting March 2000
• St. Mary's County: Names of Those Interred at Point Lookout Cemetery Civil War prison cemetery

• Assorted Maryland Deaths and Burials from Church Records (various counties - see list on the webpage)
• Records of Jewish Cemeteries in Maryland (PDF files of cemetery burials in various Jewish cemeteries in Maryland)

Ordering Maryland Death Certificates and Vital Records

• Order Maryland Birth, Marriage, Divorce or Death Certificates Online from Vitalchek (requires payment; restrictions apply) birth certificates from 1918-present; marriage and divorce certificates 1990-present; death certificates 1969-present
• Also see: Maryland State Archives - Vital Records for information on ordering by mail, and information on earlier records

Also Helpful...

• Maryland Genealogy Databases at Ancestry (requires payment)
  includes census, military & vital records, plus newspapers & city directories