Source Information

Ancestry.com. Virginia, U.S., Death Records, 1912-2014 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015.
Original data: Virginia, Deaths, 1912–2014. Virginia Department of Health, Richmond, Virginia.

About Virginia, U.S., Death Records, 1912-2014

This collection contains an index of details extracted from Virginia death records for the years 1988–2014, as well as images of death records for 1912–1991, which fall outside the 25-year privacy restriction. Most records contain birth years and spouse and parent names. You may also find age at death, death date, place of death, death registration date, place of birth, and a death certificate date.

For images of closed records (records that fall within years under the privacy restriction), contact the Virginia Department of Health.

Note: Social Security numbers have been redacted from the images in order to protect privacy.

Updates:
20 Feb 2020: Added images for certificates from 1992 and 1993.
22 Sep 2022: Added images for certificates from 1994 and 1995.