
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
Florida Obituaries
- Alachua County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Alachua County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Baker County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Baker County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Baker County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Bay County Obituary Indexes
- Bay County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Bay County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Bay County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Bradford County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Bradford County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Bradford County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Brevard County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Brevard County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Brevard Genealogical Society, Obituary Indexes
- Broward County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Broward County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Calhoun County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Calhoun County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Charlotte County Miscellaneous Obituaries
- Charlotte County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Charlotte County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Charlotte County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Citrus County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Citrus County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Citrus County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Clay County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Clay County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Collier County Death and Obituary Index
- Collier County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Collier County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Collier County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Columbia County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Columbia County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Columbia County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- DeSoto County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- DeSoto County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- DeSoto County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Dixie County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Dixie County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Dixie County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Duval County Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Duval County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Duval County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Duval County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Escambia County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Escambia County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Escambia County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Fernandina Obituary Index
- Flagler County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Flagler County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Florida Deaths and Obituaries
- Florida GenealogyBuff Obituary Files
- Florida Miscellaneous Obituary Records
- Florida Obituaries – Obit City
- Florida USGenWeb Obituary Project
- Fort Meyers Senior High School Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Franklin County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Franklin County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Gadsden County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Gadsden County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Gadsden County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Gainesville Sun Obituary Index, 1986-2007
- Gilchrist County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Glades County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Glades County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Glades County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Gulf County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Hamilton County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Hamilton County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Hardee County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Hardee County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Hardee County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Hendry County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Hendry County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Hendry County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Hernando County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Hernando County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Hernando County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Highlands County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Highlands County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Highlands County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Hillsborough County – Tampa Tribune Obituary Index
- Hillsborough County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Hillsborough County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Hillsborough County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Holmes County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Holmes County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Holmes County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Indian River County Obituary Index
- Indian River County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Indian River County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Indian River Genealogical Society Obituary Index
- Jackson County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Jackson County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Jacksonville Newspaper Indexes
- Jefferson County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Jefferson County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Lafayette County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Lafayette County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Lake County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Lake County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Lake County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Lee County, Florida, Obituary Index, 1930-1997
- Lee County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Lee County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Lee County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Leon County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Leon County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Leon County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Levy County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Levy County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Levy County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Liberty County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Madison County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Madison County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Madison County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Manatee County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Manatee County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Manatee County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Marion County Obituaries (Abstracts)
- Marion County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Marion County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Marion County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Martin County Genealogical Society Death and Obituary Index
- Martin County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Martin County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Miami-Dade County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Miami-Dade County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Miami-Dade County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Miami-Dade Obituary Index
- Monroe County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Monroe County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Naples Death and Obituary Index
- Nassau County Obituaries
- Nassau County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Nassau County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Okaloosa County Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Okaloosa County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Okaloosa County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Okeechobee County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Okeechobee County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Orange County Library System Epoch Legacies
- Orange County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Orange County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Orlando Obituary Index, 1949-1991
- Osceola County Miscellaneous Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Osceola County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Osceola County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Osceola County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Palm Beach County Death and Obituary Index
- Palm Beach County Obituary Index
- Palm Beach County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Palm Beach County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Palm Beach Post Newspaper Index to Obituaries, 1980 through 1989
- Pasco County Death and Obituary Index
- Pasco County Obituary Index
- Pasco County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Pasco County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Pasco County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Pinellas County, Miscellaneous Obituaries, 1972-1992
- Pinellas County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Pinellas County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Pinellas County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Pinellas Death and Obituary Index
- Polk County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Polk County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Polk County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Putnam County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Putnam County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Putnam County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Saint Johns County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Saint Johns County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Saint Johns County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Saint Lucie County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Saint Lucie County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Saint Lucie County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Santa Rosa County Obituary Indexes
- Santa Rosa County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Sarasota County Death and Obituary Index
- Sarasota County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Sarasota County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Seminole County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Seminole County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Seminole County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- St. Johns County, List of Deaths and/or Burials, 1800-1949
- St. Petersburg Times Death and Obituary Index
- Sumter County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Sumter County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Suwannee County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Suwannee County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Taylor County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Taylor County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Union County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Union County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Volusia County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Volusia County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Volusia County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Wakulla County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Wakulla County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Walton County, Obituaries (Tranacriptions)
- Walton County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Washington County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Washington County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- West Pasco Historical Society Obituary index
- Winter Haven Herald Obituary Index
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