Online Florida Death Indexes, Records & Obituaries

Online Florida Death Records Indexes

Florida Death Index, 1877-1998 (at Ancestry/requires payment) records before 1917 are spotty
An Ancestry subscription also includes...
- Florida Marriage Collection, 1822-1875 and 1927-2001 (requires payment) coverage varies for 1822-1875

Florida Death Records Index, 1877-1939 from FamilySearch (free with registration) includes digitized images of the death certificates

Florida Census Mortality Schedules, 1850-1880 these list people who died in the year preceding the date the census was taken; coverage varies by county and census year; from Florida Memory/State Library and Archives of Florida
Florida, Funeral Home Records, 1887-1971 from FamilySearch (free with registration) includes 5 funeral homes in Tampa and 1 in Panama City (Bay County); coverage varies by funeral home; indexing may not be complete; images of the records are restricted

Florida Death Records Indexes, Obituaries and Cemeteries by County

Alachua County Probate Search
Alachua County Virtual Cemetery Project
Boca Raton: see the Palm Beach County section below
Broward County...
- Broward County, Florida Cemetery Records (ongoing project)
- Broward County: Dania Memorial Park (a/k/a) Woodlawn Cemetery Burials from the Genealogical Society of Broward County
- Broward County: Jewish Cemeteries (ongoing project) presently has Jewish burials in Evergreen Cemetery, Fort Lauderdale
Charlotte County: Cemeteries Index for some burials in Charlotte County
Charlotte County: Hickory Bluff Cemetery History in Punta Gorda, Florida; includes information about some people buried in the cemetery
Collier County: Naples Daily News Obituaries and Death Notices Index, July 28, 1927 to January 2008 (some years missing) from the Genealogical Society of Collier County
- Also: Collier County: Naples Daily News Obituary Index, 1927-1936 and 1947-2008 (Excel file; some years are partial) from the Collier County Public Library
Dade County: see Miami-Dade County below
DeSoto County: see Charlotte County above for one cemetery book
Duval County...
- Duval County Public Records Search, 1988-present
- Jacksonville Area Obituary Collection, 1851-2009 (at Ancestry/requires payment) includes scanned copies of over 105,000 obituaries - many are from the Jacksonville Florida Times-Union, but other newspapers from nearby counties may also be included
Escambia County and Pensacola...
- Escambia County: St. John's Historic Cemetery Burial Search (Pensacola, Florida)
- Escambia County: St. Michael's Cemetery Burials (Pensacola)
- Escambia County Genealogy Indexes incudes Fisher-Pou Funeral Home index, obituaries indexes and more
- Pensacola News Journal Obituaries Indexes, 1825-1998
Flagler County Genealogy Indexes includes some obituaries and cemetery records
Ft. Lauderdale - see Broward County above
Gainesville - see Alachua County above
Highlands County Obituaries Index early 1982-present
Hillsborough County and Tampa...
- Tampa Bay Obituary Index, 1855-1990 indexes obituaries in the Tampa Tribune and other Tampa-area newspapers; coverage varies by newspaper
- Hillsborough County: Index to Obituaries in the Tampa Tribune when you get there change the "Using" menu to "TRAILS-Local History & Obits"
- City of Tampa Cemetery Database for Jackson Heights, Marti/Colon, Oaklawn, and Woodlawn Cemeteries
- Tampa-Hillsborough County Public Library History and Genealogy Records includes Lord and Fernandez Funeral Home Records, and J L Reed Funeral Home Records
- Hillsborough County Cemeteries
- Hillsborough County: Zion Cemetery Burials, 1913-1920 African American Cemetery in Tampa; list was compiled by the Tampa Bay Times from 382 death certificates
Indian River County Library Obituary Indexes, 1916-recent PDF files (for the Vero Beach Press Journal, Sebastian Sun, Indian River Farmer, Fellsmere Farmer and Fellsmere Tribune; coverage may vary by newspaper)
Jacksonville - see Duval County above
Lee County...
- Lee County: Fort Myers News-Press Obituary Index, 1930-1997 at Ancestry/free to search
- Lee County, Florida Death Index, 1930-1997 from the Fort Myers News-Press from the Lee County Genealogical Society
Leon County: Tallahassee City-Owned Cemeteries Burial Records Index (Greenwood, Oakland, Old City, Roselawn, and Southside Cemeteries)
Manatee Genealogical Society Tombstone Inscriptions Surname Index you must be a member of the Manatee Genealogical Society to access additional information about the names
Miami-Dade County...
- Miami-Dade County Recorder's Record Search, 1974-present indexes some probate files and estate death certificates
Nassau County...
- Nassau County: Fernandina Death and Burial Records, 1896-1916
- Fernandina, Florida, Death and Burial Records, 1896-1916 at Ancestry/requires payment
- Nassau County Cemeteries and Obituaries from the Amelia Island Genealogy Society
Orange County and Orlando...
- Orlando Sentinel Obituary Indexes, 1949-1991 PDF files of handwritten indexes for each year
- Orange County: Carey Hand Funeral Home Records (Orlando and central Florida area) from the Central Florida Memory Collection
Palm Beach County...
- Palm Beach County Obituaries & Death Notices Index, 1980-early 2011; and Cemetery Records from the Genealogical Society of Palm Beach County
- Palm Beach County Official Records Search 1968-recent includes marriage licenses and some estate death certificates
- Palm Beach County Genealogy Indexes includes cemetery burials, death and obituary indexes, and more
- Palm Beach: Our Lady Queen of Peace Catholic Cemetery Burial Records Search
Pasco County: West Pasco Historical Society Obituary Database also has a burial list for Pine Hill Cemetery
Pensacola - see Escambia County above
Pinellas County...
- Pinellas County Genealogy Databases includes Pinellas County cemetery indexes, newspaper indexes (with obituaries) and a funeral home index
- Pinellas County Probate Records Search circa 1980s to present
Putnam County Cemeteries
Santa Rosa County Obituary Indexes
Sarasota County...
- Sarasota County Obituary Index Search
- Sarasota County: Cemeteries of Sarasota County Florida - A Record of Births, Deaths, and Burials PDF
St. Johns County...
- St. Johns County Deaths 1800-2011 also has other genealogy indexes; from the St. Augustine Genealogical Society
- List of deaths and/or burials, 1800-1899 in St. Johns County, Florida; and St. Johns County, Florida register of deaths occuring in or burial in for the period 1900-1949 scanned book at FamilySearch
St. Petersburg - see Pinellas County above
Tallahassee - see Leon County above
Tampa - see Hillsborough County above
Volusia County Cemeteries
Wakulla County Cemeteries also includes some cemeteries in Franklin and Leon Counties

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