Online Detroit and Wayne County, Michigan Death Records Indexes and Obituaries

Michigan Death Indexes and Records

Michigan Death Records, 1867-1897 at FamilySearch (free with registration) index plus scanned images from the death ledgers
Michigan Death Certificates Index, 1921-1952 at FamilySearch (free with registration) index only; no images
Michigan Death Records, 1897-1952 from Michiganology (free) includes scanned images of the death certificates from 1897-1943; 1944-1952 is index only
Michigan Death Records, 1867-1952 at Ancestry (requires payment) includes scanned death registers from 1867-1897; and scanned death certificates from 1897-1943; 1944-1952 is index only
Michigan Death Index, 1971-1996 at Ancestry (requires payment) index only

Detroit Obituaries and Death Records Indexes

For a Detroit News Obituary Index, 1980-2001, see the Livonia Public Library link below
Detroit Area Death Notices for Assorted Years 1800s-2003 not complete
Death Certificates Index for Armenian Immigrants through 1925 most are from Detroit and Highland Park, Michigan; and Brantford, St. Catharines, and Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Wayne County Obituaries and Death Records Indexes

Dearborn Area Deaths (index), c. 1930s-1950s also has indexes for 3 Dearborn cemeteries; from the Dearborn Genealogical Society
Deaths in the Dearborn Press, 1918-1928 also has indexes for 2 Dearborn cemeteries
Grosse Pointe Public Library Obituary Database
Livonia Public Library Obituary Indexes for the Livonia Observer, June 1955-2014; and the Detroit News, 1980-2001
Plymouth Historical Museum Archives includes cemetery indexes and funeral home records
Trenton Historical Society Genealogy Databases includes indexes for obituaries, death certificates, cemetery burials and census records
Wayne County Death Records Indexes 1934-1953 (excluding the City of Detroit); PDF files; from the Detroit Public Library
- This index is also available at Ancestry (searchable by name)...
  - Wayne County, Michigan Death Index, 1934-1953 (excluding Detroit) (requires payment)
Wyandotte, Wayne County, Michigan, Death Index, 1820-1965 at Ancestry

Detroit and Wayne County Cemeteries

Detroit and Nearby: Mt. Elliott Cemetery Association Genealogy Search - Burials includes listings for Mt. Elliott, Mt. Olivet, Resurrection (Clinton twp, Macomb County), All Saints (Waterford, Oakland County) and Guardian Angel (Rochester, Oakland County) cemeteries; (may not be complete)
Michigan Jewish Cemetery Index (Irwin I. Cohn Index) not complete, but presently has about 64,000 listings - includes Jewish cemeteries in the greater Detroit area and some outside of Detroit
Northville Historic Records includes local history indexes and a Northville cemetery index (for Oakwood Cemetery)
Plymouth, Michigan: Assorted Cemetery Listings (scroll down to the Michigan section) includes Civil War Veteran Burials, Old Baptist Cemetery, Presbyterian Cemetery, Riverside Cemetery, Shearer Cemetery
Woodmere Cemetery - Some Early Burials (Detroit, Michigan) ongoing project

Ordering Detroit and Wayne County Death Certificates

Ordering by Mail (fees and restrictions apply)...
- For information about ordering Detroit and Wayne County Death Certificates see...
  - Wayne County Clerk - Death Certificates
- For information about ordering Vital Records (including death certificates) for the state of Michigan see...
  - Birth, Death, Marriage and Divorce Records - State of Michigan

Michigan Full State Death Indexes

Also See...

Michigan Genealogy Records at Ancestry (requires payment)
includes census records, cemetery burials, military records, vital records, city directories and more

Detroit & Wayne County, Michigan Death Records and Obituaries