
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
Colorado Obituaries
- Adams County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Adams County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Alamosa County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Arapahoe County Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Arapahoe County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Arapahoe County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Archuleta County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Archuleta County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Archuleta County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Aurora Public Library Obituary Index
- Baca County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Bent County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Bent County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Bent County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Boulder County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Boulder County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Boulder County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Boulder Daily Camera Obituary Index from 1970 – 1974
- Boulder Death and Obituary Index
- Broomfield County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Chaffee County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Chaffee County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Cheyenne County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Cheyenne County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Clear Creek County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Clear Creek County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Clear Creek County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Colorado GenealogyBuff Obituary Files
- Colorado Obituary Archive
- Colorado Obituary Project
- Colorado Springs Gazette Death and Obituary Index
- Colorado Statesman Obituary Index
- Colorado Obituaries – Obit City
- Conejos County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Conejos County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Costilla County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Costilla County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Crowley County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Crowley County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Custer County Obituaries
- Custer County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Custer County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Delta County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Delta County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Delta County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Denver County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Denver County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Denver County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Denver Obituary Index Project
- Denver Obituary Indexes
- Denver Public Library microfilm Obituaries 1944-1959
- Dolores County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Dolores County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Douglas County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Douglas County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Douglas County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Eagle County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Eagle County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Eagle Valley Library District Obituaries
- El Paso County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- El Paso County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Elbert County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Elbert County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Foothills Genealogy Society Area Obituary Index
- Fort Collins Coloradoan Obituaries (Clippings)
- Fremont County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Fremont County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Fremont County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Garfield County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Garfield County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Gilpin County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Gilpin County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Gilpin County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Glenwood Springs, Burdge Funeral Home Records, 1919-1953
- Grand County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Grand Junction Obituary Index
- Gunnison County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Gunnison County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Hinsdale County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Hinsdale County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Hinsdale County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Huerfano County Obituary Card Index
- Huerfano County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Huerfano County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Huerfano County, Pueblo County, and Las Animas Deaths and Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Index to Trail Magazine 1908-1929: Deaths and Obituaries
- Intermountain Jewish News (IJN) Death and Obituary Index
- Jackson County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Jefferson County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Jefferson County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Jefferson County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Kiowa County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Kiowa County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Kit Carson County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Kit Carson County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Kit Carson County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- La Plata County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- La Plata County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- La Plata County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Lafayette & Louisville Genealogy Society, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Lake County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Lake County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Lake County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Larimer County Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Larimer County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Larimer County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Las Animas County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Las Animas County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Las Animas County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Lincoln County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Lincoln County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Littleton Independent Death and Obituary Index
- Logan County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Meeker, Obituary Index
- Mesa County Death and Obituary Index
- Mesa County Public Library Obituary Index
- Mesa County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Mesa County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Mesa County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Mineral County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Moffat County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Moffat County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Montezuma County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Montezuma County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Montezuma County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Montrose County Obituary Indexes
- Montrose County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Montrose County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Morgan County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Morgan County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Native American Obituaries
- Otero County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Otero County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Ouray County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Ouray County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Park County Death and Obituary Index
- Park County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Park County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Phillips County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Phillips County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Pitkin County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Pitkin County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Prowers County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Prowers County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Pueblo County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Pueblo County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Pueblo Death and Obituary Index
- Rio Blanco County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Rio Blanco County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Rio Grande County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Rio Grande County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Routt County Deaths and Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Routt County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Routt County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Routt County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Saguache County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Saguache County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- San Juan County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- San Juan County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- San Miguel County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Sedgwick County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Silver World Newspaper, Obituaries 1978 – 2005
- Summit County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Summit County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Teller County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Teller County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Teller County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Tri County Obituary Project
- Washington County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Washington County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Washington County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Weld County, Master Index
- Weld County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Yuma County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Yuma County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Yuma County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
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