These Terms and Conditions for Florida Obituary Records explain the rules you agree to when you use this website. By visiting, browsing, or running a Florida obituary search, you accept every rule listed below.
If you do not accept these rules, stop using the site right away. This page covers what you can do, what you cannot do, how we handle Florida death records, and which outside resources we link to for Florida obituary archives and Florida newspapers obituary pages.
Agreement to These Terms
Your use of this site means you agree to follow these Terms and Conditions for Florida Obituary Records. We list them in plain words so every visitor knows what to expect. Read each section with care. If a rule does not fit your needs, leave the site. Continued use means you accept every term in this document and any updates we post later.
Who These Terms Cover
These terms apply to every person who visits this site. They cover guests, members, and anyone who runs a Florida obituary lookup, reads Florida historical obituaries, or downloads data from our pages. They also cover any tool, bot, or script that touches our site.
Changes to the Terms
We can update these Terms and Conditions for Florida Obituary Records at any moment. When we change a rule, the new version goes live right away on this page. Check back often to read the latest version. Your continued use after a change means you accept the new rules.
What This Site Offers
This site serves as a private resource that helps you locate Florida obituary records online, free Florida obituary search options, and links to Florida obituary archives. We do not hold the actual records. We point you to outside databases where you can pull old Florida obituaries, Florida newspaper archives, and Florida obituary by name lookups.
Records We Help You Locate
Our pages cover a wide range of Florida death records and related items. You can use our site to find Florida obituary database entries, Florida vital records obituary data, and Florida funeral home obituaries from many counties. We also list Florida Memory obituaries and Tampa Bay Times obituaries, Miami Herald obituaries, and Orlando Sentinel obituaries from major Florida papers.
Tools and Search Aids
We provide search aids that help you build a Florida obituary search. These aids include name filters, date ranges, and county filters for Miami-Dade County obituaries, Broward County obituaries, and Hillsborough County obituaries. Each tool sends you to the right outside source so you can complete your lookup.
User Rules and Conduct
You agree to use this site only for lawful purposes. A Florida obituary lookup or a search through Florida historical obituaries is legal for personal, family, or scholarly reasons. You may not use data from this site to stalk, harass, or harm any person.
Prohibited Actions
The list below covers actions we do not allow on this site. Any breach of these rules can lead to a block on your access.
- No scraping, bots, or scripts that pull data from our pages at high speed
- No hacking, probing, or attacks on our servers or systems
- No use of site data to make decisions about jobs, housing, credit, or insurance
- No resale of our content without our written consent
- No posting of harmful code, viruses, or worms through our contact forms
- No attempts to bypass limits we set on search tools or pages
Personal Responsibility
You alone bear responsibility for how you use the data you pull from our site. We are not liable for any harm that results from your use of Florida obituary records, free Florida obituary search results, or any other item you access through our links.
FCRA and Consumer Use Limits
This site is not a consumer reporting agency. We are not bound by the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA). We do not provide consumer reports or private investigator services. You may not use data from this site for any purpose the FCRA covers.
What the FCRA Covers
The FCRA controls how data is used for credit, employment, insurance, and housing choices. You may not use Florida obituary records or Florida death records from this site to screen tenants, hire workers, fire workers, approve insurance, or deny a loan. Any such use breaks both these Terms and Conditions for Florida Obituary Records and federal law.
Permitted Uses
You may use data from this site for personal family research, school projects, historical study, or genealogy work. A Florida genealogy obituary records lookup is a common lawful use. A Florida obituary by name search to find a lost relative is also lawful. We support these uses fully.
Outside Links and Partners
We link to many outside sites that hold actual Florida obituary records. These sites include Ancestry Florida obituaries, Find a Grave Florida, Newspapers.com Florida obituaries, and Legacy.com Florida obituaries. Each outside site has its own rules. Once you click a link, you leave our site and enter theirs.
Partner Sites We Link To
The table below shows the main outside resources we link to for Florida obituary records. Each one has its own terms, fees, and data rules. Read their terms before you use them.
| Site Name | Type of Records | Access Type |
|---|---|---|
| Ancestry Florida obituaries | Full genealogy and obituary database | Paid subscription |
| Find a Grave Florida | Memorials, graves, and obituaries | Free with optional accounts |
| Newspapers.com Florida obituaries | Florida newspaper archives and clippings | Paid subscription |
| Legacy.com Florida obituaries | Recent Florida obituaries and guest books | Free with paid add-ons |
| Florida Memory obituaries | State Library and Archives items | Free public access |
Florida State Library Records
The Florida State Library obituary records are a key free resource. The State Library holds old newspapers and an obituary index that spans many decades. We link to their pages so you can run a Florida obituary lookup at no cost.
No Guarante Data
We do our best to list accurate sources, but we cannot promise that every record is correct, current, or complete. Florida death records and Florida obituary archives grow and change every day. A name in a Florida obituary index today may move or vanish tomorrow.
Possible Errors
You may find a wrong date, a wrong spelling, or a wrong county in our listings. This can happen because Florida newspaper archives come from scans of old paper. A scan can miss a line, or a name can be hard to read. We are not liable for errors like these.
Data Freshness
Recent Florida obituaries appear on partner sites within hours of release. Old Florida obituaries take longer to index. We update our pages often, but a delay of a few days or weeks is normal. If you need a fresh record, check the funeral home or newspaper site first.
Limits on Our Liability
To the fullest extent the law allows, we are not liable for any harm that comes from your use of this site. This covers direct harm, indirect harm, lost data, lost profits, or any other kind of loss. Our total liability to you for any claim tied to these Terms and Conditions for Florida Obituary Records will not exceed the amount you paid us, which is zero in most cases.
What Liability Covers
This limit covers errors in our content, broken links to outside sites, site downtime, slow performance, and any security breach that exposes your data. It also covers data theft, viruses, and other harmful code you may pick up from our pages or from sites we link to.
Third Party Harm
We are not liable for the acts of any outside site we link to. If a partner site harms you, that is a matter between you and them. We do not control their data, their staff, or their rules.
If a third party sues us because of something you did on this site, you agree to cover our legal costs and any award the court grants against us. This duty applies if you broke these Terms and Conditions for Florida Obituary Records or if you misused the site in any way. Use the site with care. Do not post content. Do not run a Florida obituary lookup for a reason that breaks the law. If you do, you may have to pay for our defense in court. We take this duty seriously. The text, layout, logos, images, and code on this site belong to us or to our licensors. You may read and use the site for personal research. You may not copy our pages, repost our text, or sell our data without our written consent. You may share a link to our pages. You may quote a short excerpt from our site for a review or a school paper if you credit us. You may print a page for your own files. You may not mirror our site or scrape it for a database. You may not copy full pages, lift our logo, or pass off our text as your own. You may not build a tool that reads our pages in bulk. Any such act breaks these Terms and Conditions for Florida Obituary Records. Florida has 67 counties, and each one keeps its own death records. We list county level pages so you can run a Florida obituary lookup in the right place. The list covers large counties and small ones alike. Miami-Dade County obituaries and Broward County obituaries are two of the most searched sets on our site. Both counties have major papers that print obituaries daily. The Miami Herald runs a long obituary archive that reaches back many years. Palm Beach County is also a common search target. Orange County, home to Orlando, is the source of many Orlando Sentinel obituaries. The Sentinel keeps a paid archive and a free recent obituaries page. Osceola, Seminole, and Volusia counties round out the central region. Hillsborough County obituaries come from the Tampa Bay Times. The Tampa Bay Times obituaries page lists recent deaths, and the Times archive holds older items. Pinellas and Pasco counties sit next to Hillsborough and have their own local papers. A Florida death certificate is the official record of a death in the state. We link to the Florida Department of Health, which keeps certified copies of these records. The Department of Health holds records from 1917 onward. Older records live at the State Archives. Florida law lets family members, legal reps, and people with a court order get a certified death can order online, by mail, or in person. We list the steps on our county pages so you do not have to search the whole state site for each county office. A death certificate holds the legal facts: name, date, place, cause. An obituary holds the personal story and family notes. Most people start with an obituary and then order a certificate. Both items come from different places, so you may need both for a full record. A Florida obituary index is a list of names from old obituaries. Many libraries and genealogy groups have built these indexes over the years. We link to the main indexes so you can run a Florida obituary by name search without paying for a full subscription. Family Search, run by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, has a free Florida obituary index that covers many decades. The Florida State Library obituary records also have a free index. Both are great tools for old Florida obituaries. Many county libraries have built their own Florida obituary database. The Tampa Bay Times keeps one. The Orlando Sentinel keeps one. The Miami Herald keeps one. Each one covers a different slice of the state, so you may need to check more than one for a full picture. We can block your access to this site at any moment, for any reason, with or without notice. If you break these Terms and Conditions for Florida Obituary Records, expect to lose access right away. We do not refund any fees for paid tools if we block you for a breach. Common triggers for a block include scraping, hacking, spamming our contact forms, or using the site for FCRA covered tasks. A pattern of odd traffic from your IP address can also trigger a block. These Terms Obituary Records follow the laws of the State of Florida. Any dispute tied to this site will be heard in a Florida court. By using this site, you agree to that venue and that choice of law. If a court finds that any part of these terms is void or cannot be enforced, the rest of the terms still hold. We will adjust the void part as little as possible to keep the rest of the rules intact. If you have a question about these Terms and Conditions for Florida Obituary Records, reach out through our contact page. We do our best to reply within a few business days. Please do not send urgent legal notices through the contact form; use postal mail for any legal matter. The state office of vital records handles statewide Florida death records and Florida vital records obituary data. Their office is open to the public during business hours. The phone number and address below are the current public contact points for 2026. Phone: 904-359-6900. Mailing address: 1217 Pearl Street, Jacksonville, FL 32202. Visiting hours: Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Eastern Time. You can order certified Florida death certificates through this office or through any county health department in the state. Many visitors ask the same set of questions about these Terms and Conditions for Florida Obituary Records. The answers below cover the most common ones. Each answer is short, direct, and based on what we know about Florida public records law as of 2026. If your question is not here, send it through our contact form. No. You may not use data from this site for a job background check, a tenant screen, an insurance check, or a credit check. The Fair Credit Reporting Act covers all of those uses. A Florida obituary lookup is fine for family history, but not for a job or housing choice. If you need a consumer report, hire a licensed consumer reporting agency. Many Florida obituary archives are free, but not all of them. The Florida Memory obituaries and Find a Grave Florida are free. Ancestry Florida obituaries and Newspapers.com Florida obituaries charge a fee. A free Florida obituary search works for most basic needs, but a deep genealogy project may need a paid tool. Check each partner site for current prices. Florida death records go back to 1917 at the state level. Florida newspapers obituary pages go back much further in some cities. The Tampa Bay Times obituaries reach back to the 1800s. The Miami Herald obituaries reach back to the early 1900s. Old Florida obituaries from the 1800s are rare but do exist in the State Library collection. Yes. The Florida Department of Health runs an online order system for Florida death certificates. You can also order by mail or in person at a county health office. The fee is set by state law and may change from year to year. Check the current fee on the Department of Health site before you order. An obituary is a longer piece, often written by the family, with a story about the person who died. A death notice is a short paid notice in the paper with the basic facts: name, age, date, place, and service times. Both appear in Florida newspaper archives, but a death notice is shorter and cheaper. A full obituary costs more and has more detail. Most obituary sites let a family edit or remove a notice they posted. Legacy.com and funeral home sites often have an edit link on the page. Newspapers may take a paid notice down if the family asks. The State Archives do not remove records; they keep public records as a matter of law. Each partner site has its own rules for edits and removals. You do not need an account to use our site. Some partner sites, like Find a Grave Florida, work better with a free account. Others, like Ancestry Florida obituaries, require a paid account for full access. We list the access type for each partner on our resource pages so you know what to expect before you click.What This Means for You
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Florida Death Certificates
Who Can Get a Death Certificate
Difference Between a Certificate and an Obituary
Florida Obituary Index
Family Search and State Library
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