Online Georgia Death Indexes, Records & Obituaries

Online Georgia Death Indexes and Obituaries

Georgia Death Index, 1919-1998 (at Ancestry/requires payment) has 3.1 million entries

Georgia Death Certificates, 1919-1927 Index and Images (at FamilySearch/free with registration) also has some listings for 1914-1918
Georgia Death Certificates, 1928-1943 Index and Images (at FamilySearch/free with registration)
Georgia Death Certificates, 1919-1927 (free) from the Georgia Archives; also has some death certificates for 1914-1918
Georgia Death Records and Index, 1914-1940 (at Ancestry/requires payment) includes digitized copies of the death certificates; 1914-1918 period is incomplete

Georgia Wills and Probate Records, 1742-1992 (at Ancestry/requires payment) coverage varies by county
Georgia Probate Records, 1742-1990 (at FamilySearch/free with registration) coverage varies by county; browsable images; indexed by name for Houston County only (so far); some handwritten indexes may be included

Georgia's Virtual Vault includes Colonial Estate Records, Colonial Will Books, Colonial Wills, and other items
Georgia: County Delayed Birth and Death Records, 1870-1960 (at FamilySearch/free with registration) includes some death registers for assorted counties; coverage varies

Online Georgia Death Indexes, Obituaries and Cemeteries by County

Atlanta: see the Fulton County section below
Augusta: see the Richmond County section below
Bibb County: Riverside Cemetery Burials (Macon, Georgia) includes Civil War veterans
Bulloch County: African American Funeral Programs from the Willow Hill Heritage and Renaissance Center
Carroll County Georgia Cemeteries - Tombstone Transcriptions from the University of West Georgia, Special Collections
Carroll County Obituary Index, 1872-2008 from the Carroll County Genealogical Society
Chatham County and Savannah...
- Chatham County: City of Savannah Burial Records Search includes Bonaventure, Greenwich Colonial, Laurel Grove North and Laurel Grove South Cemeteries
- Chatham County: Savannah, Laurel Grove Cemetery Record Keeper's Book, 1852-1942 at FamilySearch; African American cemetery in Savannah
- Savannah, Georgia Vital Records Indexes and Cemetery Burials (at Ancestry/requires payment) includes...
  - Savannah, Georgia Vital Records, 1803-1966 (births 1889-1919, marriages 1898-1911, and deaths 1803-1966)
  - Savannah, Georgia Cemetery and Burial Records, 1852-1939
  - Savannah, Georgia Cemetery Burial Lot Cards, 1807-1995 (for Laurel Grove and Bonaventure Cemeteries)
- Catholic Diocese of Savannah Cemetery Records, 1853-1975 (at Ancestry/requires payment)
- Chatham County: Savannah Morning News Obituaries Index 1913-1926 and 1987-1996 from Live Oak Public Libraries
Chattooga County: Death Notices from the Summerville News Newspaper, 1927-1942 also has some cemetery listings
Cherokee County Death Index, 1919-1943
Clarke County: Oconee Hill Cemetery Tombstone Inscriptions (Athens)
Cobb County...
- Cobb County Death Index, 1919-1940
- Cobb County: Marietta City Cemeteries includes burial listings for Marietta City Cemetery and the Marietta Confederate Cemetery
Columbus: see the Muscogee County section below
Dawson County: see the Lumpkin County section below
Decatur County Death Index, 1920-1932 and 1942 some years missing
Evans County: African American Funeral Programs, 1960-2022 earliest program is from 1961
Floyd County Death Index, 1919-1925
Floyd County: City of Rome Cemeteries 3 city owned cemeteries can be searched for burials (Eastview, Oakland and Myrtle Hill Cemeteries)
Fulton County...
- Fulton County: Oakland Cemetery Burials, Atlanta, Georgia (at Ancestry/requires payment) over 40,000 names
- Franklin Garrett Atlanta Necrology Database, 1857-1931 (includes white males 21 and over - 163,000 entries) from the Atlanta History Center
- Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Atlanta Cemeteries PDF files with burial listings for individual cemeteries
- Fulton County Records from the Atlanta History Center, 1827-1955 from FamilySearch; includes some cemetery records and obituary abstracts; not all items are indexed; coverage varies
- Fulton and Campbell Counties, Georgia, Cemetery Records, 1857-1933 (at Ancestry/requires payment)
- Atlanta African American Funeral Programs Collection most are from the late 20th-early 21st centuries
Glynn County...
- Glynn County Genealogy Indexes includes some cemetery burials, obituaries and other items; also has some listings for nearby counties
- Glynn County: Oak Grove Cemetery Burials Brunswick, Georgia
Gordon County Obituaries "Newspaper clippings of obituaries and other articles about Gordon County residents from 1800 to 2007."
Hall County: Alta Vista Cemetery Burials (Gainesville, Georgia)
Harris County - see Muscogee County below
Houston County: Evergreen Cemetery Tombstone Transcriptions, 1827-1997 in Perry, Georgia
Jones County Death Index 1919-1940
Lee County Cemetery Records
Lumpkin County...
- Lumpkin County Cemeteries
- Chestatee Regional Library System Genealogy Indexes includes some obituary indexes for Dawson County and Lumpkin County
Macon: see Bibb County above
Morgan County: Madison, Georgia Historic Cemeteries lists 4000 burials, some with links to obituaries
Muscogee County...
- Muscogee County Death Index, 1919-1939
- Muscogee County: Columbus Enquirer-Sun Death Indexes, 1800-1918
- Columbus City Cemetery Records for Linwood, Riverdale, Porterdale and East Porterdale Cemeteries (work in progress)
- Muscogee County: Linwood and Porterdale Cemeteries, Interment Records, 1866-2000 (Columbus, Georgia) at FamilySearch
- Historic Linwood Cemetery Burials (Columbus, Georgia)
- Muscogee County: Columbus, Georgia Newspapers Obituary Project, 1872-1918
Oconee County Probate Death Certificates Index, 1927-2010 (at Ancestry/requires payment)
Oglethorpe County, Georgia Index to Probate Files, 1790s-1960s
Paulding County Death Index, 1919-1927
Pickens County Genealogy Indexes includes deaths, 1919-1922; Pickens Progress obituaries index, 1997-2004; and census mortality schedules
Quitman County Deaths 1919-1930
Richmond County...
- Richmond County: Augusta-Richmond County Library Vital Records Database, 1982-2008
- Richmond County: Augusta Graveside Project burials in city maintained cemeteries; work in progress; includes Arsenal, Cedar Grove, Magnolia, Rollersville, Summerville, and Westview Cemeteries
- Richmond County: African American Funeral Programs from the Augusta-Richmond County Public Library System (mostly from the Augusta, Georgia area)
Savannah: see Chatham County above
Schley County Death Index, 1919-1940
Seminole County Death Index, 1923-1931 and 1942
Stewart County Death Index, 1919-1930
Sumter County Genealogy Indexes includes indexes for cemeteries, death certificates and obituaries
Terrell County Deaths, 1919-1930
Thomas County: African American Funeral Programs from the Thomas County Public Library System most are from the late 20th-early 21st centuries
Thomas County Public Library African-American Obituaries Index indexes 4200 obituaries; PDF
Troup County Cemetery Database may be offline
Twiggs County Deaths, 1919-1930
Webster County Death Index, 1919-1924
Wilkes County Deaths, 1919-1930

Assorted Listings for Georgia Cemeteries
- Friends of Cemeteries of Middle Georgia presently indexes 63,000 graves in Baldwin, Hancock, Jones, Washington and Wilkinson Counties
- North-Central Georgia Cemeteries (at Ancestry/requires payment) includes some cemeteries in Hall County, Rockdale County and Walnut County

Also... Georgia Genealogy Records at Ancestry (requires payment) includes census records, military records, vital records, city directories and more

Ordering Georgia Vital Records

Where to Write for Georgia Vital Records (fee required; there may be restrictions on who can order the records)

Online Georgia Death Records & Indexes

A Genealogy Guide for Finding Obituaries, Cemetery Burials & Death Certificates