Online Tennessee Death Indexes, Records & Obituaries

Online Tennessee Death Indexes and Death Certificates

Tennessee Death Records and Index 1908-1959 (except 1913) (at Ancestry/requires payment) includes digitized death certificates
Tennessee: City Death Records, 1872-1923 for Nashville, Knoxville, and Chattanooga (at Ancestry/requires payment) coverage varies
Tennessee Death Indexes 1908-1912 and 1914-1933 from the Tennessee State Library and Archives
Note - Statewide birth and death records were not recorded in Tennessee for 1913
Tennessee Death Records and Index 1914-1955 from FamilySearch
Tennessee Death Index 1949-2009 (not complete) "Partial Indexes from 1949-2009"
Tennessee Death Index for 3 Counties for Jackson County 1914-1947, Putnam County 1908-1947 (except 1913), White County 1926-1947

Online Tennessee Obituaries - Recent

Tennessee Newspapers Obituaries Archive (recent) (copies of individual obituaries can be obtained online for a fee) includes...
- Chattanooga Courier (2/10/2011-Current)
- Knoxville News-Sentinel (1/4/1991-Current)
- Lenoir City News-Herald (9/27/1999-Current)
- Maryville Daily Times (12/1/2003-Current)
- Memphis Commercial Appeal (6/27/1990-Current)
- Newport Plain Talk (7/1/1998-Current)
- Oak Ridger (Oak Ridge, TN) - (2/17/1997-Current)
- And about 20 more Tennessee newspapers

Online Tennessee Death Indexes, Obituaries and Cemeteries by County

Benton County: Pleasant Hill Baptist Cemetery Burials
Blount County Death Records Database - includes obituaries includes more than 42,000 entries from Blount County newspapers and funeral home records
Carroll County Cemeteries
Carroll County: Oak Grove Cemetery Burials
Chattanooga - see the Hamilton County section below
Chester County Cemeteries
Davidson County and Nashville...
- Index to Obituaries in the Nashville Tennessean Newspaper 1964-present also includes a Nashville marriage records index 1864-1905
- Nashville City Cemetery Grave Search 1846-1979 most are prior to 1900
- Davidson County Cemetery Survey
- Death Notices in Nashville Newspapers 1855-1907 (not complete)
- Davidson County and Nashville Death Indexes includes...
  - Nashville Obituaries & Death Notices Index for 1913
  - Davidson County Death Records Index 1900-1913
- Davidson County: Abstracts from Methodist Publications includes some Nashville Christian Advocate death notices and other items
Greene County, Tennessee Cemetery Records (requires payment - part of an Ancestry subscription)
Hamilton County...
- Chattanooga Newspapers Obituary Index 1897-2003 (may be temporarily offline)
- Hamilton County Cemeteries through 1937 (WPA)
- Hamilton County Genealogical Society - Assorted Indexes includes cemeteries, obituaries & death indexes
Henderson County Cemeteries
Knox County Death Records, 1914-1925
Knox County: Knoxville Obituaries Index 1991-present
Loudon County, Tennessee Cemetery Inscriptions (requires payment - part of an Ancestry subscription)
Madison County Cemeteries
McNairy County Genealogy Indexes includes indexes for births, marriages, deaths, cemeteries and more
Memphis - see the Shelby County section below
Montgomery County Archives Search includes indexes for obituaries, early wills or probates, marriages, and other items
Nashville - see the Davidson County section above
Rutherford County Cemeteries
Scott County Death Indexes includes some obituaries and cemeteries
Shelby County and Memphis...
- Shelby County Death Records Search 1848-1961 "partial index and images from 1848-1961" (includes some digitized images of the death certificates for the later years) also has other genealogy indexes
- Shelby County: Memphis/Shelby County Death Index 1848-1945 click on "Memphis Shelby County History and Genealogy Index" when you get there
- Zion Christian Cemetery Burials African American cemetery in Memphis
- Shelby County: Index to Memphis Appeal Obituaries 1843-1899 (except 1850)
- Baron Hirsch Jewish Cemetery Burials (Memphis)
Sumner County Genealogy Indexes includes cemeteries and funeral home records
Williamson County Obituaries Database Search

Ordering Tennessee Vital Records

Order Tennessee Vital Records by Mail (fees and restrictions apply) for birth certificates 1914-present; death, marriage and divorce certificates for the past 50 years
For older records try the Tennessee State Library and Archives

Also Helpful...

Tennessee Genealogy Databases at Ancestry (requires payment)
includes census, military & vital records, plus newspapers & city directories
Tennessee Valley Authority Cemetery Relocation Database a list of more than 20,000 TN graves removed from areas that were to be flooded or from isolated sites to nearby burial places

Online Tennessee Death Records & Indexes

A Genealogy Records Guide