One of the main goals for genealogists in searching historic newspapers is to find obituaries. Obituaries are a gold mine of information. They provide death dates and locations, funeral and cemetery information, and sometimes 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, a great number of indexes to death information and obituaries from newspapers have been provided for free online. These searchable indexes or index lists provide the location in old newspapers where the obituary can be found. Sometimes the obituary clipping or transcription is even provided.
Below is a list of links to Alabama obituary indexes, an alternative means to newspaper searching to find obituary information. If the newspaper clippings are available, or if the obituaries are transcribed, they will be denoted. Please be aware that if you find a desired obituary in an index, that the holder of the actual obituary (e.g., library or genealogical society) may charge a small fee to send you a copy of the obituary itself.
(Updated January 2021; recently added links are in BOLD)
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
Alabama
- Alabama Obituaries – Obit City
- African American Miscellaneous Obituaries
- Alabama Citizen Obituary Index
- Alabama GenealogyBuff Obituary Files
- Alabama USGenWeb Obituary Project
- Baldwin County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Baldwin County Obituaries
- Birmingham, Alabama, Obituary Index, 1930-1996
- Birmingham Area Newspapers Obituary Index
- Blount County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Blount County Obituary Index 1915-1940
- Blount County, Obituaries from the Southern Democrat, 1971-1979
- Butler County Obituary Indexes
- Calhoun County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Central Alabama Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Chambers County Obituaries
- Coffee County Obituaries
- Colbert County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Covington County Newspaper Obituary Index
- Covington County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Cullman County Death Notices and Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Geneva County Death Notices and Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Houston County, Obituaries from the Winslette Chapel Methodist Church Cemetery
- Huntsville–Madison County Public Library Newspaper Obituary Index
- Huntsville-Madison County Public Library Obituary Index, 1819-2006
- Jefferson County Death Notices and Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Lamar County Death Notices and Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Lauderdale County Death and Obituary Index
- Lauderdale County Death Notices and Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Lauderdale County Obituaries, from the Florence Times
- Lawrence County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Lawrence County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Limestone County Obituary Index
- Limestone County Death Notices, 1828-1891
- Macon County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Madison County Death Notices and Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Marion County Death Notices and Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Miscellaneous Alabama Obituaries by County
- Monroe County Eagle Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Morgan County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Ozark Dale County Public Library Obituaries (clippings)
- Pike County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Pike County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Shelby County Obituary Indexes 1866-2009
- Southern Democrat Obituary Index
- Tallapoossa County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Tuscaloosa County Obituary Index
- Tuscaloosa News Obituary Index
- Walker County Death Notices and Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Winston County Haleyville Journal and Miscellaneous Obituary Indexes
- Winston New Era Obituaries 1899-1909
- Winston Herald Abstracts of Obituaries
If you wish to search this state’s historic newspapers for obituaries, click on Alabama Online Historical Newspapers Summary
Good Luck and Happy Hunting!
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An addition to this page, under the genealogy section of the Tuscaloosa Public Library’s website (www.tuscaloosa-library.org) an obituary index for the Tuscaloosa News can be found that encompasses January 1, 1942-December 31, 1992.
Jennie, Thank you for the link. I will add it for my next update
The link for Fayette County above is for Indiana, not Alabama.
Thanks. I will fix it.