Free Delaware Obituaries and Obituary Index Links

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.

Obituary Genealogy Guide

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 2022)

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

Delaware

• Delaware GenealogyBuff Obituary Files
• Delaware Obituaries – Obit City​​
• Delaware Obituary Archives (Index free only)
• Delaware Obituary Collection (Transcriptions)
• Delaware USGenWeb Obituary Project
• Kent County Obituaries
• Kent County Obituaries and Death Notices (Transcriptions)
• Kent County Obituaries and Funeral Announcements
• New Castle County Miscellaneous Obituaries (Transcriptions)
• New Castle County Obituaries (Transcriptions)
• New Castle County Obituaries (Transcriptions)
• New Castle County Obituaries (Transcriptions)
• Newark Post Obituaries – Obituaries
• Obituaries – Cape Gazette
• Spicer-Mullikin Funeral Homes Obituaries 2010-present (Transcriptions)
• Sussex County Obituaries (Transcriptions)
• Sussex County Obituaries (Transcriptions)
• The News Journal Obituaries – Wilmington 

If you wish to search this state’s historic newspapers for obituaries, click on Delaware Online Historical Newspapers Summary