Illinois Death Certificate

Illinois State Vital Records
Office Division of Vital Records
605 West Jefferson Street
Springfield, IL 62702-5097

• Illinois Death Index 1916-1950
• Illinois Death Index pre-1916 for only a few counties - more will be added
  • List of Counties Presently in the pre-1916 Index includes Cook County death index 1871-1915
• 1929 Illinois Roll of Honor Database contains the burial locations of 72,000 Illinois veterans
• Illinois Newspaper Obituaries Archive includes recent obituaries for 100 IL newspapers, mostly from the 2000s, but some date back to the 1980s & 1990s (requires payment for full results - you can obtain online copies of individual obituaries for a fee)
• Adams County: Quincy Public Library Historical Newspaper Archive 1835-1890
• Adams County: Greenmount Cemetery Burials in Quincy, IL (not complete)
• Boone County Cemeteries & Obituaries
• Brown County: Index to Cemetery Burials 1825-1972
• Cass County Deaths 1878-1915
• Clinton County GenWeb Site includes Deaths December 1877-June 1903, St. Dominic's Catholic Church Death Records 1858-1927 (in Breese, Illinois), cemetery listings, and other indexes
• Coles County: City of Mattoon Death Certificate registers Index 1899-1918
• Coles County: Dodge Grove Cemetery Records (Mattoon, Illinois)
• Cook County & Chicago...
  • The Cook County section has moved to its own webpage...
    • Chicago & Cook County Death Indexes, Records & Obituaries
• DeWitt County GenWeb Site - includes a Death Index 1878-1917 and other indexes
• DeWitt County Coroner's Inquest Files Index 1924-1977
• Du Page County: Wheaton Vital Records Database January 1885-July 1887 from the Wheaton Public Library (includes births, marriages & deaths)
• DuPage County Cemetery Records
• Hamilton County: McLeansboro Obituaries 1996-2001
• Iroquois County Databases (includes death, cemetery & probate indexes, plus many others)
• Kane County: Elgin Genealogical Society includes a probate index, funeral home index, Civil War dead and more (for Elgin, IL)
• Kankakee County Death Index 1877-1916
• Kankakee County: Kankakee Area Obituaries Index
• Lake County
  • Lake County: Highland Park Obituary Index 1874-2005
  • Lake County: Barrington Courier-Review Indexes and Barrington Cemetery Listings
  • Lake County: Vital Records published in Mundelein Newspapers includes obituaries
  • Cook Memorial Public Library Obituary Index, 1894-March 10, 1988 from the Lake County Independent and Waukegan Weekly Sun, Libertyville Independent, and Independent Register (some issues are missing)
• Logan County Cemeteries
• Macon County Death Index December 1877-1915 is included in the Illinois State Archives Pre-1916 index listed above
• Macoupin County Coroner's Inquest Files Index 1835-1928
• Macoupin County GenWeb Site - includes cemeteries and more
• Madison County: Glen Carbon Village Cemetery Records
• Mascoutah Herald Obituaries 1912-1971 does not include 1941
• McHenry County Assorted Indexes includes death notices from assorted newspapers about 1856-1989
• McHenry County: Algonquin Area Obituary Index - Jan 1, 2005-present scroll down to the obituaries index link
• Menard County Deaths 1877-1910
• Menard County Cemetery Records
• St. Clair County Genealogical Society: Assorted Genealogy Indexes includes Millstadt Enterprise Obituary Index 1897-1949, Freeburg Tribune Obituary Index 1904-1939, recent Belleville News Democrat Obituaries, Proofs of Death 1870-1880, Funeral Card Collection, tombstone indexes & more
• Sangamon County GenWeb Site includes many cemetery listings (Springfield is in Sangamon County)
• Schuyler County Genealogy Records includes some death records and cemeteries
• Vermilion County: Pape Mortuary Genealogical Database (over 100,000 records) has listings for Eastern IL & Western IN
• Vermilion County Coroner's Inquest Files Index 1908-1956
• Washington County Records includes obituaries 1998-early 21st century, cemetery listings and early probate records (pre-1910)
• Wayne County Coroner's Inquest Record Index 1888-1960
• Will County GenWeb Site includes cemetery listings & obituaries for Joliet & Will County
• Winnebago County Cemeteries
• Woodford County: Prairie District Library Obituaries, 1887-2000
• Illinois Probate & Will Indexes...
  • Clinton County Wills Index (not complete)
  • Jackson County Probate Index
  • Livingston County Probate case files Index 1837-1958
  • Madison County Probate case files Index 1813-1910
  • Mclean County Probate Record Index 1834-1934
  • Mclean County Will Record Index 1838-1940
  • Peoria County Probate case files Index 1825-1887
  • Rock Island County Probate Case Files Index 1834-1899
  • Sangamon County Probate Case Files Index 1821-1885