Georgia Death Certificate

Georgia Division of Public Health
Vital Records
Room 217-H 47
Trinity Ave., SW
Atlanta, Georgia 30334-5600
Tel: 404-656-4750

• Georgia Death Index 1919-1998 2.7 million entries/at Ancestry.com (requires payment)
• Georgia Death Certificates 1919-1927 includes scanned copies of the death certificates available for free downloading
• 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 (7/22/1994-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
• Bibb County: Riverside Cemetery Burials in Macon, Georgia (includes Civil War veterans)
• Chatham County: Savannah Morning News Obituaries Index 1916-1926 and 1987-1996 from Live Oak Public Libraries
• Chattooga County: Death Notices from the Summerville News Newspaper 1927-1942 also has some cemetery listings
• Cherokee County Death Index 1919-1943
• Cobb County Death Index 1919-1940
• Decatur County Death Index 1919-ongoing
• Dougherty County: City of Albany Clerk of Court Public Records Indexes includes death certificates & probate records
• Floyd County Death Index 1919-1925
• 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
• Jones County Death Index 1919-1940
• Lee County Cemetery Records
• Lumpkin County Cemeteries
• Muscogee County Death Index 1919-1939
• Oglethorpe County, Georgia Index to Probate Files 1790s-1960s
• Paulding County Death Index 1919-1927
• Quitman County Deaths 1919-1930
• Randolph County Deaths 1919-1930
• Richmond County: Augusta-Richmond County Library Vital Records Database 1982-present
• Schley County Death Index 1919-1940
• Seminole County Death Index 1923-1931 & 1942
• Stewart County Deaths 1919-1930
• Terrell County Deaths 1919-1930
• Twiggs County Deaths 1919-1930
• Webster County Death Index 1919-1924
• Wilkes County Deaths 1919-1930
• Assorted Listings for Georgia Cemeteries
  • African American Cemeteries and Obituaries about 80,000 entries for Chattahoochee, Harris, Marion, Muscogee, Schley & Sumter counties in Georgia, and Russell County, Alabama
  • Friends of Cemeteries of Middle Georgia presently indexes 43,000 graves in Baldwin, Hancock, Jones, Washington & Wilkinson Counties