Louisiana Funeral Home Records online may include funeral home or mortuary records, funeral programs, burial insurance records and more. These records contain information related to death and burial such as:

• name of the deceased

• death certificate

• death date and place

• burial date and place

• birth date and place

• copy of the obituary

• name of informant (often a relative)

• residence of deceased

• list of surviving relatives

• residences of relatives

• funeral program including speakers and pall bearers

• biographical information for the deceased

• burial insurance

Also see:

Louisiana Birth, Marriage, and Death Records online

Louisiana Substitute Birth, Marriage, and Death Records online

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Louisiana Funeral Home Records online at the federal level

US – Mortuary Records – United States, Panama Canal Zone, Index to the Gorgas Hospital Mortuary Registers, 1906-1991, index, at FS

Louisiana Funeral Home Records online at the parish level

Jefferson Parish – Funeral Homes – Death Records and Obituaries, 1923-1991, at FS

Orleans Parish – Funeral Homes – Death Records and Obituaries, 1923-1991, at FS

Orleans Parish – Vital Records – Requests for Release of Bodies to Funeral Homes, 1910-1924, at FS

Plaquemines Parish – Funeral Homes – Death Records and Obituaries, 1923-1991, at FS

St. Tammany Parish – Funeral Homes – Poole Funeral Home Records, at STPL

Vernon Parish – Funeral Homes – Hixson Funeral Records, Vernon Parish, Louisiana, at FS

Washington Parish – Funeral Homes – Poole Funeral Home Records, at USGWA

Louisiana Funeral Home Records online at the city level

New Orleans – Cemeteries – The Epidemic Summer : List of Interments in All the Cemeteries of New Orleans, from the First of May to the First of November, 1853, Together with Names and Ages of Deceased, Places of Nativity, Causes of Deaths, Date of Interment and Name of Cemetery in Which Interred. Alphabetically Arranged. To Which Are Added a Review of the Yellow Fever, Its Causes, Etc, and an Interesting and Useful Abstract of Mortuary Statistics, at FS

Shreveport – Funeral Homes – Osborne Funeral Home Index, page 116, at ALTGA