{"id":179,"date":"2006-05-27T20:11:03","date_gmt":"2006-05-28T03:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/27\/online-death-indexes\/"},"modified":"2020-10-04T15:43:56","modified_gmt":"2020-10-04T22:43:56","slug":"online-death-indexes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/179","title":{"rendered":"Online Death Indexes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Online Death Indexes provide&nbsp;useful sources of birth and death information.&nbsp; For the most part, these Death Indexes are transcriptions of other Indexes and are subject to the errors associated with transcriptions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a title=\"Ancestry.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ancestry.com\">Ancestry.com<\/a> offers the following State death indexes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Alabama 1908-1959<\/li><li>Arkansas 1914-1950<\/li><li>California 1940-1997<\/li><li>Connecticut 1949-1971<\/li><li>Florida 1877-1998<\/li><li>Georgia 1919-1998<\/li><li>Idaho 1911-1951<\/li><li>Indiana 1882-1920<\/li><li>Kentucky 1911-2000<\/li><li>Louisiana 1900-1949<\/li><li>Maine 1960-1997<\/li><li>Massachusetts 1970-2003<\/li><li>Michigan 1971-1996<\/li><li>Minnesota 1908-2002<\/li><li>Montana 1907-2002<\/li><li>North Carolina 1908-1996<\/li><li>Ohio 1958-2002<\/li><li>Oregon 1903-1998<\/li><li>Rhode Island 1630-1930<\/li><li>South Carolina 1915-1952<\/li><li>South Dakota 1905-1955<\/li><li>Texas 1964-1998<\/li><li>Utah 1905-1951<\/li><li>Vermont 1981-2001<\/li><li>Washington 1940-1996<\/li><li>Wisconsin 1820-1907<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Ancestry.com also holds the following Provincial Death Indexes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>British Columbia 1872-1979<\/li><li>Ontario 1869-1932<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Other significant online death indexes include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a title=\"Arizona 1878-1975\" href=\"http:\/\/genealogy.az.gov\/\">Arizona 1870-1969<\/a> (with images of documents)<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/s1.sos.mo.gov\/records\/archives\/archivesdb\/birthdeath\/\">Missouri pre-1910<\/a> (1883-1893)<\/li><li><a title=\"Missouri 1910-1955\" href=\"https:\/\/s1.sos.mo.gov\/records\/archives\/archivesmvc\/deathcertificates\/\">Missouri 1910-1969<\/a> (with images of documents)<\/li><li><a title=\"VitalSearch\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vitalsearch-worldwide.com\/\">VitalSearch<\/a> (scans of\u00c2\u00a0some state indexes)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>My Great Aunt Mary is listed in the Massachusetts Death Index at Ancestry.com.&nbsp; The information provided there includes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Name:&nbsp; Mary M. Golinski<\/li><li>Certificate Number:&nbsp; 045417<\/li><li>Death Place:&nbsp; Worcester<\/li><li>Death Date: 18 Sep 1975<\/li><li>Birth Place:&nbsp; Other<\/li><li>Birth Date:&nbsp; &#8212;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>For many of the entries in the Massachusetts Death Index, the birth date is provided.&nbsp; Unfortunately, this is not the case for my Great Aunt Mary.&nbsp; Nonetheless, the&nbsp;Death Index&nbsp;can certainly&nbsp;be considered a&nbsp;secondary&nbsp;source for&nbsp;death information&nbsp;and may even help locate the death certificate itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Copyright \u00a9 2006 by Stephen J. Danko<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Online Death Indexes provide&nbsp;useful sources of birth and death information.&nbsp; For the most part, these Death Indexes are transcriptions of other Indexes and are subject to the errors associated with transcriptions. 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