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One of the main goals for genealogists is to find obituaries. Obituaries are a gold mine of information. They provide death dates and locations, funeral and cemetery information, and more importantly – information about the relatives of the deceased’s family and extended family. This family name information is often not found anywhere else.
Over the past few decades, thanks to volunteers, librarians, and archivists, many indexes to obituary information and transcriptions of obituaries from newspapers have been provided for free online. These searchable indexes provide the location in old newspapers where the obituary can be found. Sometimes the scanned newspaper clipping is included.
And remember you can always find online historical newspapers to search for obituaries for free on this website (links at Newspaper Links).
Here are a few articles that may be helpful:
- How to Find Historical Obituaries
- What is the Future of Obituaries?
- What is the Difference Between an Obituary, a Death Notice, an Obituary Index, and a Death Index?
- 32 Reasons Why Searching for Obituaries is Like Finding Gold
- 9 Ways to Effectively Find Obituaries in Online Newspapers
Each entry below will be appended with one of the five types of obituaries: Transcriptions, Clippings, Index, Abstracts, or Online.
Online entries present an obituary on a website that publishes online obituaries, generally, a phenomenon that occurs after the year 2000.
Indexes are just that, an index that at a minimum includes the deceased’s name and the name and date of the newspaper that the obituary appears in. Some indexes also include the date of death, so be careful if you record the date in your genealogy database. Make sure that it is the death date.
General U.S.
- Currentobituary.com index, 2001-2014
- Obituary Daily Times Index, 1995-2016
- U.S., Selected Jewish Obituaries, 1948-2002
- United Methodist Church Annual Conference Journal Memoirs and Obituary Index
- United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014
- United States, Obituaries, American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1899-2012
Montana Obituaries
- Augusta, Augusta Newspapers Obituary Index ca. 1915-1938
- Beaverhead County, Obituaries (Abstracts)
- Beaverhead County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Beaverhead County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Big Horn County Obituaries
- Big Horn County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Big Horn County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Billings Gazette Obituary Indexes
- Billings Gazette Vitals Index
- Billings Gazette, Lovell Chronicle, The Yellowstone County News, and The Billings Outpost, Obituaries, 2002, 2003, 2004 (Clippings)
- Billings, Yellowstone County Obituaries 1955-1969
- Blaine County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Blaine County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Broadwater County Obituaries
- Broadwater County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Broadwater County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Butte, Butte-Silver Bow Public Archives
- Carbon County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Carbon County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Carbon County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Carter County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Cascade County Death and Obituary Indexes
- Cascade County, Index to Obituaries, 1880-2002
- Cascade County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Cascade County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Choteau Newspapers Obituary Index ca. 1891-2011
- Chouteau County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Chouteau County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Custer County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Custer County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Custer County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Daniels County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Dawson County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Dawson County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Deer Lodge County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Deer Lodge County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Fairfield Newspapers Obituary Index ca. 1926-2006
- Fallon County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Fergus County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Fergus County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Flathead County Deaths and Obituaries (Clippings)
- Flathead County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Flathead County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Flathead County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Fort Benton, River Press, Obituaries, 1882-1921
- Gallatin County Death and Obituary Indexes
- Gallatin County Obituary Index
- Gallatin County, Historical Obituaries
- Gallatin County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Gallatin County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Gallatin County, Obituaries, 1860-2019
- Garfield County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Glacier County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Glacier County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Glacier County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Glasgow – St. Raphael Parish Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Golden Valley County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Granite County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Granite County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Great Falls Pioneers, Obituaries, 1917-1944 (Clippings)
- Havre Hill Deaths and Obituaries (Clippings)
- Hill County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Hill County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Hill County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Jefferson County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Jefferson County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Jefferson County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Judith Basin County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Judith Basin County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Kalispell, Daily Interlake, Obituaries 1999 – 2004, 2011 – 2015 (Clippings)
- Lake County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Lewis & Clark County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Lewis & Clark County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Lewis and Clark County Obituary Indexes
- Liberty County Obituaries (Clippings)
- Liberty County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Lincoln County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Lincoln County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Madison County Obituaries
- Madison County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Madison County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Madison County, Obituaries, 1870-1933 (Clippings)
- McCone County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Meagher County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Meagher County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Meagher County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Mineral County Deaths and Obituary Clippings, 1870-2010
- Mineral County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Mineral County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Mineral County, Obituaries, 1870-2010
- Missoula County Obituary Index
- Missoula County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Missoula County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Montana GenealogyBuff Obituary Files
- Montana Obituaries – Obit City
- Musselshell County Obituaries
- Musselshell County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Park County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Park County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Park County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Phillips County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Phillips County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Polson, Tribal Obituaries (Clippings)
- Pondera County Obituaries
- Pondera County Obituaries
- Pondera County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Powder River County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Powell County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Powell County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Prairie County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Ravalli County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Ravalli County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Ravalli County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Richland County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Roosevelt County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Rosebud County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Rosebud County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Sanders County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Sanders County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Silver Bow County Obituaries
- Silver Bow County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Silver Bow County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Silver Bow, Butte-Silver Bow Public Archives
- Stillwater County Obituaries
- Stillwater County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Stillwater County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Sweet Grass County Obituaries
- Sweet Grass County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Sweet Grass County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Teton County Obituary Index
- Teton County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Teton County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Toole County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Toole County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Toole County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Treasure County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Valley County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Wheatland County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Wibaux County Obituaries
- Wibaux County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Wibaux County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Yellowstone County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Yellowstone County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Yellowstone County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Yellowstone Genealogy Forum, Yellowstone County Obituaries, 1955-1969
- Yellowstone Genealogy Forum, Obituaries
If you wish to search this state’s historic newspapers for obituaries, click on Montana Online Historical Newspapers Summary
Good Luck and Happy Hunting!