
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, a great number of 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 are recording the date in your genealogy database. Make sure that it is the death date.
(Updated May 2023)
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 Obituaries
- Apache County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Apache County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Arizona Biographical Database, Obituary Index
- Arizona GenealogyBuff Obituary Files
- Arizona Law Enforcement Deaths
- Arizona Newspapers, Obituary Card Index, 1993-1994 (Clippings)
- Arizona Obituaries – Obit City
- Arizona Obituary and Death Notice Archive
- Arizona Obituary Archive (Transcriptions)
- Arizona Obituary Card Index, 1860-present
- Arizona Obituary Index to Arizona Newspapers, 1993-1994
- Arizona Republic Obituaries 2002- (Transcriptions)
- Arizona Republican Newspaper Obituary Index 1890-1920
- Cochise County Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Cochise County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Cochise County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Cochise County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Coconino County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Coconino County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Coconino County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Flagstaff Obituaries (Clippings)
- Flagstaff, Arizona Champion/Coconino Sun (Newspaper Obituary Index,1883 to 2004
- Flagstaff, Arizona Champion/Coconino Sun Newspaper Obituary Index
- Flagstaff, Arizona Daily Sun, Obituaries, 1986-June 2014 (Clippings)
- Gila County Obituaries
- Gila County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Gila County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Gila County, Obituaries, 1884-2006 (Clippings)
- Gila County, Obituaries, 1957-2015 (Clippings)
- Graham County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Graham County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Greenlee County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Greenlee County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- La Paz County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Lake Havasu City, Obituary Index
- Maricopa County Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Maricopa County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Maricopa County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Maricopa County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Maricopa County, Obituaries, 1948-2005 (Clippings)
- Mesa AZ FamilySearch Library Obituary Index
- Mohave County Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Mohave County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Mohave County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Mohave County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Native American Obituaries
- Navajo County Obituaries
- Navajo County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Navajo County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Payson Deaths and Obituaries, 1948-2008 (Clippings)
- Pima County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Pima County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Pima County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Pinal County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Pinal County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Pinal County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Prescott Area Obituaries
- Santa Cruz County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Santa Cruz County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Santa Cruz County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Sedona Obituary Indexes
- West Valley Genealogical Society Obituaries
- Western States Deseret News Deaths (card File) 1970
- Wickenburg Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Wickenburg Obituaries Index
- Yavapai County Obituary Database
- Yavapai County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Yavapai County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Yavapai County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Yavapai Newspaper Obituary Index Project
- Yuma County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Yuma County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
If you wish to search this state’s historic newspapers for obituaries, click on Arizona Online Historical Newspapers Summary
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