Online Pennsylvania Death Indexes, Records & Obituaries

Online Pennsylvania Death Indexes and Obituaries

Pennsylvania Death Records Indexes 1906-1962 (PDF files) you must search each year separately; for some years surnames are listed by Soundex code

Pennsylvania Church and Town Records, 1708-1985 has over 7.5 million entries (at Ancestry/requires payment)
includes baptismal, marriage and burial records, and other items; includes digitized images of the records
Pennsylvania Veterans Burial Cards, 1777-1999 (at Ancestry/requires payment) includes digitized images of the cards

Pennsylvania Obituaries Archive (copies of individual obituaries can be obtained online for a fee) includes...
- Allentown Morning Call (1/1/1984-Current)
- Erie Times-News (1/1/1995-6/17/1999; 7/28/2000-Current)
- Harrisburg Patriot-News (8/1/1986-Current)
- Lancaster Intelligencer Journal & Lancaster New Era (1/2/1995-Current)
- Philadelphia Inquirer (1/16/1981-Current)
- Philadelphia Daily News (7/21/1982-Current)
- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (5/29/1990-Current)
- Pittsburgh Tribune-Review (1/19/2005-Current)
- Scranton Times-Tribune (9/22/2005-Current)
- Wilkes-Barre Times Leader (10/1992-Current)
- and over 100 more Pennsylvania newspapers

Adams County Library System - Index of Local Obituaries from Gettysburg Newspapers assorted years (more are being added)
Allegheny County...
- Allegheny County Cemeteries
- Allegheny County: Pittsburgh City Deaths, 1870-1905 from FamilySearch includes scanned images of the death records
- Allegheny County: Index of Death Notices and Obituaries that Appeared in Pittsburgh Area Newspapers ongoing project
- Allegheny County: St. Clair Cemetery Burials (Mt. Lebanon, PA)
- Allegheny County: McKeesport and Versailles Cemetery Burials
Allentown - see Lehigh County below
Altoona - see Blair County below
Beaver County: Beaver Cemetery Burials
Bedford County Historical Society: Pioneer Library Obituary Index
Berks County Records includes Birth, Marriage, Death & Estate Records for Berks County and the City of Reading
Bethlehem - see the Northampton County section below
Blair County...
- Blair County Death Records Indexes from the Blair County Genealogical Society
- Blair County: Altoona Mirror Obituary Index 1929 to present also has a birth index
- Blair County: Alto-Reste Park Cemetery Burials (Altoona, PA)
Butler County: Butler Area Public Library Online Obituary Database 1818-2012
Cambria County GenWeb Site includes an obituary index and many cemetery indexes
Cambria County: Grandview Cemetery Burials (Johnstown, Pennsylvania)
Centre County: Centre Daily Times Obituaries Index
Chester County Death Index 1893-1907
Chester County Archives Death Indexes, Coroner's Records Index, Will Records Indexes and more
Clarion County: Eccles-Lesher Memorial Library Burials Database includes Rimersburg, Concord, Old Concord, Independence, Sarah Furnace, Snyder and Randolph Cemeteries
Clearfield County Death Registrations 1893-1905 not yet complete - more being added
Cumberland County Cemeteries
Dauphin County: Harrisburg Newspaper Index - Marriages & Deaths from 4 Newspapers, 1799-1827
Dauphin County: for Harrisburg Patriot-News Obituaries (8/1/1986-Current) see the Pennsylvania Obituaries Archive above
Delaware County Archives includes indexes for births, marriages, deaths, wills, veteran's graves and other items
Delaware County: Arlington Cemetery Burials (Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania)
Erie County Cemeteries
Erie County Public Library Obituary Index 1822-recent scroll down for the index
Fayette County Genealogy Project - Cemetery Records also includes obituaries & other records
Greene County Genealogy and Vital Records Indexes includes indexes for births, marriages, obituaries, wills and deaths
Harrisburg - see Dauphin County above
Huntingdon County Deaths 1807-1846
Lackawanna County...
- Lackawanna County: Will, Probate and Marriage Records (requires Internet Explorer & downloadable viewer) includes digital images of will and probate records from 1878 to the present, marriage applications from 1885 to the present, and other items
- Lackawanna County Cemeteries and Genealogy Indexes includes Will Indexes 1878-1939 and other items
Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society Obituaries Index most are from the Lancaster Intelligencer Journal
Lawrence County: New Castle Public Library Marriage & Obituary Database
Lebanon County Graveyards (some with complete or partial transcriptions)
Lehigh County: Morning Call Online Obituary Index 1895-1983 some years not complete; from the Allentown Public Library
Lycoming County: Newspapers Surname Index 1807-1904 includes obituaries and marriages
McKean County Cemeteries from the Painted Hills Genealogy Society
McKean County: Bradford Era Obituary Index 1935-1995
Montgomery County: Lower Merion Historical Society Burial Records Search
Northampton County...
- Northampton County: Bangor Daily News Genealogy Index 1917-1990 for births, marriages, obituraries, and more (from the Bangor Public Library)
- Northampton County: Bethlehem Globe-Times Obituaries Indexes for assorted years back to 1867 (from the Bethlehem Area Public Library)
- Northampton County: Easton Area Public Library Obituary & Cemetery Indexes also has church records indexes and other items
Northumberland County: Mount Carmel Area Public Library Obituary Index
Philadelphia...
- Philadelphia City Death Certificates and Index 1803-1915 at FamilySearch
- Philadelphia Area: Oliver H. Bair Funeral Records Indexes, 1920-1980 (at Ancestry/requires payment)
- Philadelphia County Cemeteries - USGenWeb Archives
- Philadelphia Jewish Exponent Obituary Database 1887-2006 (from JewishGen/Ancestry; requires free registration)
- Fair Hill Burial Ground Interments historic Quaker cemetery in Philadelphia (Excel file)
- Laurel Hill Cemetery Burials (Philadelphia)
- Christ Church Philadelphia - Genealogy Search includes Baptisms 1708-1843, Marriages 1708-1826, and Burials 1709-1808
Pittsburgh - see the Allegheny County section above
Potter County Cemeteries from the Painted Hills Genealogy Society
Reading - see Berks County above
Schuylkill County: Pottsville Public Library - Obituaries and Cemeteries Indexes
Scranton - see the Lackawanna County section above
Somerset County...
- Somerset County: Johnstown Tribune-Democrat Obituary Indexes
- Somerset County Obituaries and WPA Records Project Cemetery Transcriptions
Westmoreland County...
- Westmoreland County: Latrobe Bulletin Obituaries and Death Notices Index, December 18, 1902-present from the Adams Memorial Library
- Westmoreland County: Baltzer Meyer Historical Society Index of Obituaries for Greensburg, Pennsylvania
- Westmoreland County Estate and Marriage License Search
York County Death Indexes and Genealogy Indexes includes indexes for affidavits of death 1877-1958, death records 1852-1855 & 1893-1906, coroner's records, estate files 1959-1967, and other records
York County: Bethlehem Steltz Reformed Church Cemetery Burials in Glen Rock, Pennsylvania (Excel file)

Pennsylvania Necrology Scrapbook (scroll down to "Pennsylvania Genealogy Collection") searchable digitized scrapbooks (from microfilm) of obituaries clipped from Pennsylvania newspapers from 16 October 1891 to 3 March 1904 - includes many Civil War veterans (this is a partial index for this time frame)
Eastern Pennsylvania Obituaries Index 1800s - 2000 (60,000 entries)
Assorted Pennsylvania Cemeteries (WebCemeteries) a collection of mostly small cemeteries in PA; includes a genealogy search

Also Helpful...

Pennsylvania Genealogy Databases at Ancestry (requires payment) while there is no full state death index available for PA, you can find birth, marriage, death & other genealogy records for various PA counties here; also includes census records and WWI draft cards
Online Pennsylvania Naturalization Records and Indexes
Philadelphia Passenger Lists Guide 1800-1948

Ordering Pennsylvania Birth & Death Certificates 1906 to Present (fees and restrictions apply)

Pennsylvania Department of Health Vital Records Information

Online Pennsylvania Death Records, Indexes & Obituaries

A Genealogy Records Guide