Online Tennessee Death Indexes, Records & Obituaries

Online Tennessee Death Indexes and Death Certificates

Tennessee Death Records and Index 1908-1958 (except 1913) (at Ancestry/requires payment) includes digitized death certificates
Tennessee Death Records and Index 1914-1966 from FamilySearch (free with registration)
Tennessee: City Death Records, 1872-1923 for Nashville, Knoxville, and Chattanooga (at Ancestry/requires payment) coverage varies
Tennessee Death Indexes 1908-1912 and 1914-1933 from the Tennessee State Library and Archives
Note - Statewide birth and death records were not recorded in Tennessee for 1913
Tennessee Death Index 1949-2014 (not complete) "Partial Indexes from 1949-2014"
Tennessee Death Index for 3 Counties for Jackson County 1914-1947, Putnam County 1908-1947 (except 1913), White County 1926-1947

Online Tennessee Obituaries - Recent

Tennessee Newspapers Obituaries Archive (recent) (copies of individual obituaries can be obtained online for a fee) includes...
- Chattanooga Courier (2/10/2011-Current)
- Knoxville News-Sentinel (1/4/1991-Current)
- Lenoir City News-Herald (9/27/1999-Current)
- Maryville Daily Times (12/1/2003-Current)
- Memphis Commercial Appeal (6/27/1990-Current)
- Newport Plain Talk (7/1/1998-Current)
- Oak Ridger (Oak Ridge, TN) - (2/17/1997-Current)
- And about 20 more Tennessee newspapers

Tennessee Cemetery Burials

TNGenWeb Cemetery Database for several counties; has nearly 450,000 burials listed

Online Tennessee Probate Records

Tennessee Wills and Probate Records, 1727-2008 (at Ancestry/requires payment) coverage varies by county

Tennessee Death Indexes, Obituaries and Cemeteries by County

Anderson County: City of Oak Ridge Public Library Obituary Index, September 1943-Recent from the Oak Ridge Journal and Oak Ridger newspapers
Blount County Death Records Database - includes obituaries includes more than 42,000 entries from Blount County newspapers and funeral home records
Bradley County Obituary Index 1865-Current from the Cleveland Bradley County Library
Carroll County Cemeteries
Chattanooga - see the Hamilton County section below
Chester County Cemeteries
Clarksville - see the Montgomery County section below
Davidson County and Nashville...
- Index to Obituaries in the Nashville Tennessean Newspaper 1964-2013
- Nashville City Cemetery Grave Search 1846-1979 most are prior to 1900
- Calvary Catholic Cemetery Burials - Diocese of Nashville
- Davidson County Cemetery Survey
- Davidson County and Nashville Obituary Indexes includes...
  - Nashville Obituaries and Death Notices Index for 1913
  - Death Notices in Nashville Newspapers 1855-1907 (not complete)
- Metropolitan Nashville/Davidson County Archives Genealogy Indexes includes Wills Index 1783-1924, Nashville Globe Obituaries Index 1907-1918 (African American Newspaper), Birth and Marriage Indexes, and other items
  - Davidson County Death Records Index 1900-1913
- Davidson County: Abstracts from Methodist Publications includes some Nashville Christian Advocate death notices and other items
Greene County, Tennessee Cemetery Records (requires payment - part of an Ancestry subscription)
Hamilton County...
- Chattanooga Public Library Newspapers Obituary Index 1897-2014 from the Chattanooga Times, News Free Press, and the Chattanooga Times Free Press
- Hamilton County Cemeteries through 1937 (WPA)
- Hamilton County Genealogical Society - Assorted Indexes includes cemeteries, obituaries and death indexes
- Hamilton County: Forest Hills Cemetery Burials in Chattanooga, Tennessee
Henderson County Cemeteries
Knox County...
- Knox County Death Records, 1914-1925
- Knox County Cross Index Search indexes obituaries, wills, marriages and other items
Loudon County, Tennessee Cemetery Inscriptions (requires payment - part of an Ancestry subscription)
Madison County Cemeteries also has many other genealogy indexes
McNairy County Genealogy Indexes includes indexes for births, marriages, deaths, cemeteries and more
Memphis - see the Shelby County section below
Montgomery County...
- Montgomery County Archives Search includes indexes for obituaries, early wills or probates, marriages, and other items
- Montgomery County Death Sources Database and Leaf-Chronicle Obituary Index the death sources database is derived from cemetery burials, funeral home records, obituaries and other items; from the Clarksville-Montgomery County Public Library
Nashville - see the Davidson County section above
Rutherford County Cemeteries
Scott County Death Indexes includes some obituaries and cemeteries
Shelby County and Memphis...
- Shelby County Death Records Search 1848-1963 "partial index and images...;" includes digitized images of some of the death certificates for the later years; also has other genealogy indexes
- Shelby County: Memphis/Shelby County Death Index 1848-1945
- Zion Christian Cemetery Burials African American cemetery in Memphis
- Shelby County: Index to Memphis Appeal Obituaries 1843-1900 (except 1850)
- Baron Hirsch Jewish Cemetery Burials (Memphis)
Sullivan County Obituary Index 1990-1999
Sumner County Genealogy Indexes includes cemeteries and funeral home records
Tipton County: Covington Leader Obituaries Index 1917-1953 also has a marriage records index
Williamson County Obituaries Database Search

Ordering Tennessee Vital Records

Order Tennessee Vital Records by Mail (fees and restrictions apply) for birth certificates 1914-present; death, marriage and divorce certificates for the past 50 years
For older records try the Tennessee State Library and Archives

Also Helpful...

For a list of some Tennessee birth indexes, see the Tennessee section at: Birth Records and Indexes on the Internet (USA)
Ancestry's Tennessee Genealogy Records Collection (requires payment)
includes census records, cemetery burials, military records, vital records and more
Tennessee Valley Authority Cemetery Relocation Database a list of more than 20,000 graves removed from areas that were to be flooded or from isolated sites to nearby burial places; for Tennessee and nearby states

Online Tennessee Death Records & Indexes

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