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 Arizona 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 February, 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
Arizona
- Arizona GenealogyBuff Obituary Files
- Arizona Law Enforcement Deaths
- Arizona Newspapers, Obituary card index, 1993-1994 (clippings)
- Arizona Obituaries – Obit City
- Arizona Obituary Archive (transcriptions)
- Arizona Obituary Card Index, 1860-present
- Arizona Obituary and Death Notice Archive
- Arizona Obituary Index to Arizona Newspapers, 1993-1994
- Arizona Republic Obituaries 2002- (transcriptions)
- Arizona Republican Newspaper Obituary Index 1890-1920
- Arizona USGenWeb Obituary Project
- Cochise County Obituaries
- Cochise County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Flagstaff, Arizona Champion/Coconino Sun Newspaper Obituary Index
- Flagstaff Obituaries (clippings)
- Flagstaff, Arizona Daily Sun, Obituaries, 1986-June 2014 (clippings)
- Gila County Deaths and Obits (transcriptions)
- Gila County Obituaries
- Gila County Obituaries
- Gila County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Gila County, Obituaries, 1884-2006 (clippings)
- Gila County, Obituaries, 1957-2015 (clippings)
- Graham County Obits (transcriptions)
- Maricopa County Miscellaneous Obits and Index
- Maricopa County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Maricopa County, Obituaries, 1948-2005 (clippings)
- Mesa AZ FamilySearch Library Obituary Index
- Mohave County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Mohave County Obituaries 1869- (transcriptions)
- Native American Obituaries
- Navajo County Obituaries
- Payson Deaths and Obituaries, 1948-2008 (clippings)
- Pima County Obits (transcriptions)
- Pima County Obituaries
- Pima County Obituaries (clippings)
- Prescott Newspaper Obituary Index
- Sedona Obituary Indexes
- Western States Deseret News Deaths (card file) 1970
- West Valley Genealogical Society Obituaries
- Wickenburg Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Yavapai County Obits (transcriptions)
- Yavapai County Obituaries
- Yavapai County Obituary Database
- Yavapai Newspaper Obituary Index Project
- Yuma County Obituaries
If you wish to search this state’s historic newspapers for obituaries, click on Arizona Online Historical Newspapers Summary
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