San Francisco Genealogy - Obituaries and Death Notices

Obituaries and Death Records

Over 10,950 Death Records online

This is an free online collection of mainly pre-1906 death records for people who had a San Francisco connection. A few more recent records included as well. All of the records in this collection include a source citation, so that you can determine where the record can be found. Most of these records are from historic newspapers, but there may be other record types as well, such as full obituaries, death/funeral notices, cemetery records, mortuary records and burial permits.

If you have any San Francisco death records among your research notes, particularly if they are from pre-1906, we invite you to submit them to be included in this growing collection. Records regarding your own families of interest may include your e-mail address if you wish that other researchrs be able to contact you. Records for families that are unknown to you are welcome, too, so please consider sharing them as well....they may be of great help to another researcher! For those records, you will be listed as the transcriber, but we will not include your e-mail address.

Please note:

We do *not* have copies of these records, nor can we answer questions about the people mentioned, since we are only presenting the collection online for your use.
If there is a "contact" name, you may contact the researcher with questions about the families mentioned in the record, but they have *not* necessarily volunteered to provide copies.
Source information for each entry is provided for your convenience so that you will know where the record was found. It is *highly* recommended that you view the record yourself to verify the accuracy of the transcription. Some of the older microfilmed newspapers, especially, are very difficult to read, and transcription errors may have occurred.

If you are looking for an death notice or obituary and it isn't here, request one for free.