Florida Death Certificate

State of Florida Dept. of Health
Vital Statistics
1217 Pearl Street
P.O. Box 210
Jacksonville, FL 32231-0042
Tel: 904-359-6900 904-359-6911

• Florida Death Index 1877-1998 (records before 1917 are spotty) requires payment - part of an Ancestry subscription, which also includes...
  • Florida Marriage Collection, 1822-1875 and 1927-2001
  • Florida Divorce Index 1927-2001
• Alachua County Probate Search
• Bay County Obituaries Index and Cemetery Burials obituaries & death notices are from the Panama City News Herald from 1 July 1987 to 20 April 2006
• Broward County, Florida Cemetery Records ongoing project
• Collier County: Naples Daily News Obituary Index 1927-1936 & 1947-2005
• Duval County Public Records Search 1988-present
• Duval County: Jacksonville Florida Times-Union Obituaries Archive 1997-present
• Highlands County Obituaries Index early 1982-mid 2006
• Hillsborough County: Index to Obituaries in the Tampa Tribune 1905-present
• Indian River County: Vero Beach Press Journal Obituary Index 1919-2001 also has 2002-2005 in Excel format (downloadable)
• Leon County: Tallahassee City-Owned Cemeteries Burial Records Index (Greenwood, Oakland, Old City, Roselawn, and Southside Cemeteries)
• Miami-Dade County Recorder's Record Search 1974-present indexes some probate files and estate death certificates
• Orange County Public Records Search includes death certificate index 1955-present
• Palm Beach County Death Certificates 1968-recent includes online images and other records (note: DC is the document type for death certificate)
• Pinellas County Databases includes Pinellas County cemetery indexes, newspaper indexes (with obituaries) and a funeral home index
• Pinellas County: St. Petersburg Times Obituaries 2002-present also see the Florida Obituaries Archive below
• Sarasota County: Cemeteries of Sarasota County Florida - A Record of Births, Deaths, and Burials PDF files
• Volusia County Cemeteries
• Florida Obituaries Archive - Recent (you can obtain copies of individual obituaries online for a fee) includes...
  • Boca Raton News (3/2/2006-Current)
  • Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel (1/1/1986-Current)
  • Jacksonville Florida Times-Union (1/12/1996-Current)
  • Miami Herald (1/1/1983-Current)
  • Orlando Sentinel (4/1/1985-Current)
  • Palm Beach Daily News (1/2/2000-Current)
  • Palm Beach Post (1/1/1989-Current)
  • Pensacola News Journal (1/1/1999-Current)
  • St. Petersburg Times (1/1/1987-Current)
  • Tallahassee Democrat (1/1/1994-Current)
  • Tampa Tribune (8/13/1990-Current)
  • And nearly 30 more Florida newspapers
• Assorted Listings for Florida Cemeteries
  • Cemeteries of Wakulla, Franklin & Leon Counties
  • Names Found in Florida Cemeteries listings for some cemeteries in Jackson, Leon, St. Johns, Seminole, Sumter, Volusia, and Wakulla Counties