Online Detroit and Wayne County, Michigan Death Records Indexes and Obituaries

Detroit & Wayne County Obituaries & Death Records Indexes

Detroit News Obituaries Archive (1999-Current) (copies of individual obituaries can be obtained online for a fee)
Detroit Area Death Notices and Obituaries 2001-current from the Detroit Free Press and the Detroit News
Detroit Area Death Notices for Assorted Years 1800s-2003 not complete
Detroit Deaths, June 1883 to 15 May 1884 from the 1884 Detroit City Directory
Deaths in the Dearborn Press 1918-1928 also has indexes for 2 Dearborn cemeteries
Grosse Pointe Public Library Obituary Database
Livonia Public Library Obituary Index for the Livonia Observer
Plymouth Historical Museum Archives includes cemetery indexes and funeral home records
Trenton Historical Society Genealogy Databases includes indexes for obituaries, death certificates, cemetery burials and census records
Wayne County Death Records Indexes 1934-1953 (excluding the City of Detroit); PDF files; from the Detroit Public Library
Wyandotte Death Index, up to 1962 downloadable PDF file

Detroit & Wayne County Cemeteries

Detroit and Nearby: Mt. Elliott Cemetery Association Genealogy Search - Burials includes listings for Mt. Elliott, Mt. Olivet, Resurrection (Clinton twp, Macomb County), All Saints (Waterford, Oakland County) and Guardian Angel (Rochester, Oakland County) cemeteries; (may not be complete)
Michigan Jewish Cemetery Index (Irwin I. Cohn Index) not complete, but presently has about 64,000 listings - includes Jewish cemeteries in the greater Detroit area and some outside of Detroit
Woodmere Cemetery - Some Early Burials (Detroit, Michigan) ongoing project
Plymouth, Michigan: Assorted Cemetery Listings (scroll down to the Michigan section) includes Civil War Veteran Burials, Old Baptist Cemetery, Presbyterian Cemetery, Riverside Cemetery, Shearer Cemetery

Ordering Detroit & Wayne County Death Certificates

Michigan Full State Death Indexes

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

Detroit & Wayne County, Michigan Death Records and Obituaries