Van Buren Co. Michigan

Death Records

Official state government deaths were begun in 1867. Other records that may lead to clues about a death of a person are obituaries, church records, funeral home records, mortality census records, family history records, grave stone readings, military records and cemetery records.

Deaths 1935-1945 Index

The Van Buren County Death Record Index 1935-1945 was completed by VBRGS. You can order copies of the records from the VBRGS.

Seeking Michigan

SeekingMichigan has death records for all of Michigan from 1897-1952. Images of the certificates are available into the early 1940's with the later ones to 1952 completely indexed. Just go to the top of the page marked Search Digital Arvhive area to retrieve records. Can't find a record you know should be there? Get creative in the spelling or search a date, county, mother's name.

FamilySearch.org

Search records from the county for the years 1867-1897 and retrieve copies of the record book page. Also available are the deaths from 1921-1952 which will take you to the image on Seeking Michigan site. The Social Security Index is also available on this site, plus their collections of grave stone readings, and burials and records database they maintain.

Submitted Death Data

This data was submitted by researchers to Michigan Family History Network from various sources.