Online New York Death Indexes & Records

Online New York Death Records Indexes

New York State Death Indexes (these do not include New York City; see the NYC section below)
- New York State Death Index, 1880-2017 free from Reclaim the Records
- New York State Genealogical Research Death Index, 1957 to 50 years ago free; currently ends in late 1972
- New York State Death Records Index, 1957-1972 at Ancestry/requires payment
- New York State Death Records Index, 1880-1956 free from FamilySearch with images of the index from Reclaim the Records; requires registration; Deaths for Yonkers, Buffalo and Albany are not included until 1915.
- New York State Death Index, 1880-1956 at Ancestry/requires payment; starts with 1852 for the city of Buffalo and 1870 for the city of Albany; Yonkers starts with 1875, but 1890 to about 1914 or 1915 is missing for Yonkers
- New York State Death Indexes, 1880-1956 free; at Archive.org/from Reclaim the Records; scanned images of the indexes for each year, but not searchable by name; does not include Yonkers, Buffalo, and Albany from 1880 to about 1914 or 1915; for Buffalo death indexes for those years, see the Ancestry index above or the Erie County section below

New York Wills and Probate Records, 1659-1999 (at Ancestry/requires payment) coverage varies by county
New York Census Mortality Schedules for 1850, 1860, 1870, and 1880 at Ancestry/requires payment; for some people who died in the year prior to the census being taken

New York Death Records Indexes, Obituaries and Cemeteries by County

Albany County...
- Albany County: Berne Historical Project - includes cemetery records
- Albany Rural Cemetery Grave Search see the next listing for scanned burial cards for this cemetery
- Albany County: Burial Cards for Albany Rural Cemetery in Menands, New York, 1791-2011 (at Ancestry/requires payment)
- Albany County: Town of Guilderland, NY Cemetery Burials from the Guilderland Public Library
- Albany County Cemetery Burials for St. Agnes Cemetery, Menands; St. John's Cemetery, Albany; St. Mary's Cemetery, Albany; and State Street Burial Grounds, Albany; coverage varies
Allegany County...
- Allegany County Cemeteries
- Allegany County Historical Society Genealogy Indexes includes cemetery burials and obituaries
- Allegany County: Woodlawn Cemetery Burials in Almond, New York
Brooklyn - see the New York City section below
Buffalo - see the Erie County section below
Cattaraugus County Cemeteries
Cayuga County: St. Joseph's Cemetery Burials in Auburn, New York
Chautauqua County...
- Chautauqua County Cemetery Indexes also has some church records
- Chautauqua County Cemeteries also has some church death and burial records
Chemung County Library Obituaries Indexes
Columbia County: Index to Burials 60,000 names
Delaware County Cemeteries and Genealogy Indexes includes indexes for cemetery burials, probate files, vital records and some obituaries
Dutchess County: Interments in Dutchess County Cemeteries before 1880
Erie County and Buffalo...
- Buffalo Death Indexes, 1852-1944 at Archive.org/from Reclaim the Records; scanned images of the indexes
- Death and Obituary Indexes from the Buffalo and Erie County Public Library includes: Buffalo Deaths, 1882-1892; Death Notices and Obituaries in the Buffalo News, 4-22-2009 to 2010; Index to Births, Marriages, and Deaths found in select Buffalo and Erie County Publications, 1870s-1950; some cemetery burial records; and other items
- Indexes To Select Death Notices From The Buffalo, NY Area has over 167,000 names
- Erie County: Dziennik Dla Wszystkich Death Notice Database, 1911-1957 Polish language newspaper from Buffalo, New York
- Erie County: Forest Lawn Group of Cemeteries Search includes Forest Lawn Cemetery in Buffalo; St. Matthew's Cemetery in West Seneca; Lakeside Cemetery in Hamburg; Williamsville Cemetery; cremations at Buffalo Cremation; and others
- Erie County: Hamburg, New York, Prospect Lawn Cemetery Index, 1850-1950 (at Ancestry/requires payment)
- Erie County: Lackawanna, Holy Cross Cemetery Records, 1855-1965 at FamilySearch
- Erie County: Lodge Cemetery Records (Jewish Cemetery in Buffalo, NY)
- Erie County Cemeteries
Essex County: Willsboro Heritage Society Cemetery Burial Lists
Franklin County Cemeteries
Fulton County Cemeteries
Genesee County Obituary Indexes, 1898-1980 and 2006-2008
Hamilton County Cemeteries also has indexes for other genealogy items
Herkimer County Cemetery Transcriptions
Ithaca - see Tompkins County below
Jefferson County Estate Claims Index, 1800s
Jefferson County Vital Records, 1847-1849
Livingston County: Dansville Obituary Index, 1958-present
Livingston County Historian Genealogy Records Index includes burials up to 1885 and other items
Long Island...
- See the separate sections for Nassau County, Suffolk County and New York City (Brooklyn and Queens)
Madison County Cemeteries
Madison County: Cemetery Inscriptions of Madison County, New York - Towns of Fenner & Nelson (requires payment - part of an Ancestry subscription)
Manhattan - see the New York City section below
Monroe County...
- Rochester Public Library Genealogy Indexes and Life Records Database
  - Rochester Life Records Database indexes birth, death and marriage notices from City of Rochester newspapers.
  - Monroe County Genealogy Indexes includes: Garland Cemetery Index; Brockport Deaths (from newspapers), 1856-1923 and 1925-1953; Persons Buried in Ogden, NY, 1803-2004; and other items (PDF files)
- Mt. Hope and Riverside Cemetery Records Search (Rochester) PDF files of handwritten records
- Monroe County Catholic Cemeteries...
  - Holy Sepulchre Cemetery and Ascension Garden Burials Catholic Cemeteries in Rochester and Henrietta, New York
  - Burials in St. Mary's Catholic Cemetery (Clarkson, NY)
- Monroe County GenWeb Genealogy Indexes includes cemeteries, wills, and vital records extracted from older newspapers
- Rochester Genealogical Society Church Records includes: "Index to Episcopal Church Records of Rochester 1820-1851" (PDF file), and scanned images for some other church records
- Monroe County: Webster Union Cemetery Burials Webster, New York
- Monroe County: Village of Churchville Cemetery Records Search
- Monroe County: Maplewood Cemetery Burials Henrietta, NY
Montgomery County Tombstone Inscriptions
Nassau County...
- Nassau County: Glen Cove Public Library Obituaries Index
- Nassau County: West Hempstead Obituary Index
- Nassau County: Town of Oyster Bay, New York Death Index, 1847-1849 and 1881-1920
- Nassau County: Historic Cemeteries of Oyster Bay PDF file
- Nassau County: St. Paul's Presbyterian Church Cemetery Burials in Elmont, New York
- Also see: "Catholic Cemeteries of Long Island" in the Suffolk County section below.

New York City Death Records, Obituaries and Indexes
The New York City section has moved to its own webpage...
- New York City Death Records and Indexes - includes Manhattan, the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten Island

Niagara County: Lockport Union Sun and Journal Obituary Index, 1900-1903 and 2007-2011 Excel file

Oneida County...

Oneida County GenWeb Site includes death indexes, obituaries and cemetery listings
Oneida County: Waterville Times Obituary Index, 1856-1895

Onondaga County...

Onondaga County: Genealogy Databases includes a necrology (deaths) database, obituary clippings, Woodlawn Cemetery burials (Syracuse), and other items; from the Onondaga County Public Libraries
Onondaga County: Diocese of Syracuse Catholic Cemeteries Search
Onondaga County: Skaneateles Historical Society Archives - Genealogy Indexes includes newspaper death indexes and some cemetery burials

Ontario County...

Ontario County Records and Archives Center includes town vital records for: Hopewell, Gorham, Seneca and the Village of Canandaigua; also includes property, marriage, census and naturalization indexes for Ontario County
Ontario County: Town of Gorham Historical Society Surname Index indexes some cemetery burials and other items
Ontario County: Victor Village Cemetery Index
Ontario County: Woodlawn Cemetery Burials Canandaigua, New York

Orange County...

Orange County: Goshen Public Library Obituary Index
Orange County: Middletown Thrall Library Obituary Database, c.1981-1988
Orange County: Warwick Valley Genealogical Resources includes cemetery and obituary indexes; from the Albert Wisner Public Library
Orange County: Persons Buried in Old Town Cemetery Newburgh, New York

Orleans County Cemeteries - With Surname Index

Oswego County...

Oswego County: Town of Granby Cemeteries
Oswego County: See Onondaga County above for Catholic cemeteries

Poughkeepsie - see the Dutchess County section above

Queens - see the New York City section above

Rensselaer County...

Rensselaer County Cemetery Database
Rensselaer County: Town of Nassau Cemeteries
Rensselaer County: Stephentown Cemeteries Name Index
Rensselaer County: Troy, New York Genealogy Indexes includes newspaper death notices, cemetery burials and more (from the Troy Irish Genealogy Society)

Rochester - see the Monroe County section above

Rockland County...

Rockland County Cemetery Records and Funeral Homes
Rockland County: Ascension Cemetery Burials Catholic Cemetery in Airmont, NY

Saratoga County...

Saratoga County, New York, Cemetery Records, Volume I (requires payment - part of an Ancestry subscription)
Saratoga County Cemeteries
Saratoga County: St. Joseph's Cemetery Interment Records, 1862-2013 Waterford, NY
Saratoga County Clerk Online Records Access includes some wills and cemetery deeds (requires registration)

Schenectady County...

Indexes to Vital Records in Newspapers of Schenectady County and the Capital District Area for assorted years
Schenectady County: Vale Cemetery Burials Schenectady, New York

Schoharie County Cemeteries

Seneca County: Lake View Cemetery Burials Interlaken, New York

Steuben County Cemeteries from the Painted Hills Genealogy Society

Steuben County Obituaries Index

Suffolk County...
- Suffolk County: Indexes to Local Moriches Newspapers includes obituaries
- Suffolk County: Index to Birth, Marriage and Death Announcements in The Long Island Advance, 1878-1926 from the Patchogue-Medford Library
- Suffolk County: Mattituck-Laurel Library Genealogy Resources includes Suffolk Times Obituary Index, Gildersleeve Scrapbook Obituaries Index, and other items
- Suffolk County: Connetquot Public Library Obituary Index from the Ronkonkoma Review, Brookhaven Review, and Islip Bulletin; the Connetquot Public Library district includes the hamlets of Ronkonkoma, Bohemia and Oakdale, Long Island, New York
- Suffolk County Cemetery Burials...
  - Jewish Cemeteries...
    - Wellwood Beth Moses Cemetery Burials Search Jewish cemetery in West Babylon, New York
    - New Montefiore Jewish Cemetery Burials West Babylon, New York
    - Mount Ararat Jewish Cemetery Burials Lindenhurst, New York
  - Catholic Cemeteries of Long Island - Locate a Loved One Includes...
    - Cemetery of the Holy Rood (Westbury, Nassau County)
    - Queen of Peace Cemetery (Old Westbury, Nassau County)
    - Holy Sepulchre Cemetery (Coram)
    - Queen of All Saints Cemetery (Central Islip)
  - Holy Cross Polish National Catholic Cemetery Burials Commack, Long Island
  - Southampton Town's Historic Cemeteries Project
  - Suffolk County: Gravestone Inscriptions from Oakland Cemetery, Sag Harbor (requires payment - part of an Ancestry subscription)
  - Brookhaven Cemetery Burials also has an index for Brentwood Cemetery
- Sullivan County...
  - Sullivan County: Gravestone Inscriptions of Stanton or Centennial Cemetery, Wurtsboro (at Ancestry/requires payment)
  - Sullivan County: Gravestone Inscriptions of Bridgeville Cemetery, Bridgeville; Old Fulton or Fraser Cemetery, Ferndale; Old Fallsburg (Palen's), Fallsburg (at Ancestry/requires payment)
- Syracuse - see the Onondaga County section above
- Tioga County GenWeb Site includes cemetery indexes and other items
- Tompkins County...
- Ulster County...
  - Ulster County Town Clerk Returns of Birth, Deaths and Marriages c.(1847-1850, 1873-1884); also has other genealogy indexes
  - Ulster County: Old Dutch Church Genealogy Records First Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of Kingston, New York; includes graveyard burial records, 1696-1880, and other items
- Utica - see the Oneida County section above
- Warren County...
  - Warren County Almshouse Burial Permits, 1911-1933; and Almshouse Reports of Death, 1906-1930
  - Warren County Cemeteries includes assorted cemetery transcripts and almshouse cemetery images
- Washington County: Salem Bancroft Public Library Cemetery Archives also includes some cemeteries in Bennington County, Vermont
- Washington County Genealogy Indexes includes Fort Ann Deaths, 1860-1894; Death Records from the Salem Press, January 2, 1874 to January 28, 1948; and other items
- Wayne County GenWeb Site includes some cemetery listings
- Westchester County...
  - Westchester County Archives Assorted Genealogy and Other Indexes includes indexes for Wills, Veterans WPA Cemetery Records and Marriages
  - Westchester County: Yonkers, Birth and Death Registration and Indexes, 1875-1916 from FamilySearch
  - Westchester County: Yonkers Death Index and Registers, 1875-1889 at Archive.org/from Reclaim The Records; scanned books - not searchable by name
  - Westchester County: Field Library Obituary Index index of death notices from Peekskill, New York newspapers from the mid-1800s to the present
  - Westchester County: Larchmont and Mamaroneck Cemeteries
  - Westchester County: Gate of Heaven Cemetery Burials Catholic Cemetery in Hawthorne, NY; Babe Ruth and Jimmy Cagney are buried here.
  - Westchester County: The Old Burial Grounds of the Town of North Castle, N.Y. PDF of scanned book that lists burials
- Yates County...
  - Yates County Vital Records Indexes also has indexes for estates
  - Yates County, Swann Vital Records Collection, 1723-2009 from FamilySearch
  - Yates County: Penn Yan Democrat Births, Marriages and Deaths Index, 1899-1939 look in the "Yates County Historian" section
  - Yates County Cemeteries
- Yonkers: see the Westchester County section above
New York State Cemeteries and Miscellaneous
- New York Gravestone Photo Project
- New York, Cemetery Abstracts, 1800-1965 from FamilySearch; miscellaneous collection of cemetery records from New York State; has 175,000 entries
- Northern New York Tombstone Transcription Project for Clinton, Essex, and Franklin Counties
- Western New York Genealogy Indexes from the Painted Hills Genealogy Society includes cemetery burials and other indexes for Allegany County, Cattaraugus County, Chautauqua County and Steuben County
- New York, Church and Civil Deaths, 1824-1962 collection of miscellaneous NY records from FamilySearch
- 10,000 Vital Records of Western New York, 1809-1850 (at Ancestry/requires payment) scanned searchable book; includes marriage and death notices from the Republican Advocate of Batavia, the Steuben Farmers Advocate of Bath, the Geneva Gazette, the Jamestown Journal, and Palmyra's Wayne Sentinel; coverage varies
Ordering New York State (except NYC) Death Certificates and Vital Records
- New York State (except NYC) Vital Records information for ordering by mail
- For ordering New York City vital records: See the New York City section above
Other Helpful New York Genealogy Resources
- New York Vital Records and Genealogy Indexes on the Internet
- Online New York Naturalization Records and Indexes
- Finding New York Ship Passenger Lists and Records 1820-1957
- New York Genealogy Databases at Ancestry (requires payment) includes New York census records, WWI and WWII records, immigration and vital records indexes, and more

Online New York Death Records & Indexes

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