Online Georgia Death Indexes, Records & Obituaries

Online Georgia Death Indexes and Obituaries

Georgia Death Index 1919-1998 2.7 million entries (at Ancestry/requires payment)
Georgia Wills and Probate Records 1742-1992 coverage varies by county (at Ancestry/requires payment)

Georgia Death Certificates 1919-1927 Index and Images (free) at FamilySearch; also has some listings for 1914-1918
Georgia Death Certificates 1928-1940 Index and Images (free) at FamilySearch
Georgia Death Certificates 1919-1927 (free) from the Georgia Archives; also has some death certificates for 1914-1918

Georgia's Virtual Vault includes Colonial Estate Records, Colonial Will Books, Colonial Wills, and other items

Georgia Obituaries Archive - Recent (you can obtain copies of individual obituaries online for a fee) includes...
- Alpharetta-Roswell Revue & News (1/5/2006-Current)
- Athens Banner-Herald (8/10/2006-Current)
- Atlanta Journal-Constitution (1985-Current)
- Augusta Chronicle (1994-Current)
- Columbus Ledger-Enquirer (6/8/1993-Current)
- Gainesville Times (4/1/1999-4/29/2004)
- Macon Telegraph (8/18/1994-Current)
- Marietta Daily Journal (12/7/1998-Current)
- Savannah Morning News (7/1/1999-Current)
- Walton Tribune (Monroe, GA) (8/3/2003-Current)
- Plus about 18 more Georgia Newspapers

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)
Chatham County and Savannah...
- Chatham County: City of Savannah Burial Records Search includes Bonaventure, Greenwich Colonial, Laurel Grove North and Laurel Grove South Cemeteries
- 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)
- Chatham County: Savannah Morning News Obituaries Index 1913-1926 and 1987-1996 from Live Oak Public Libraries
- For Savannah Morning News obituaries 7/1/1999-Current, see the Georgia Obituaries Archive above
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
- For Marietta Daily Journal Obituaries 12/7/1998-Current, see the Georgia Obituaries Archive above
Columbus: see the Muscogee County section below and the Georgia Obituaries Archive above
Dawson County: see the Lumpkin County section below
Decatur County Death Index 1920-1932 and 1942 some years missing
DeKalb County: Sylvester Cemetery Database, 1811-2002
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...
- Atlanta Constitution Birth & Marriage Announcements and Death & Funeral Notices 1868-1929 (requires payment)
- Fulton County: Oakland Cemetery Burials, Atlanta, Georgia (requires payment) over 40,000 names
  - The above 2 databases are part of an Ancestry subscription, which also includes the Georgia death index 1919-1998, listed above
- 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
- For Atlanta Journal-Constitution obituaries 1985-Current, see the Georgia Obituaries Archive above
Glynn County Genealogy Indexes includes some cemetery burials, obituaries and other items; also has some listings for nearby counties
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
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)
- Historic Linwood Cemetery Burials (Columbus, Georgia)
- Muscogee County: Columbus, Georgia Newspapers Obituary Project 1872-1918
- For Columbus Ledger-Enquirer obituaries 6/8/1993-Current, see the Georgia Obituaries Archive above
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 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)
- Richmond County: African American Funeral Programs from the East Central Georgia Regional Library (mostly from the Augusta, Georgia area)
- For Augusta Chronicle obituaries 1994-Current, see the Georgia Obituaries Archive above
Savannah: see Chatham County above; also see the Georgia Obituaries Archive above
Schley County Death Index 1919-1940
Seminole County Death Index 1923-1931 & 1942
Stewart County Death Index 1919-1930
Sumter County Genealogy Indexes includes indexes for cemeteries, death certificates and obituaries
Terrell County Deaths 1919-1930
Troup County Cemetery Database
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

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

Online Georgia Death Records & Indexes

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