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 Idaho 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 October 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
Idaho
- Ada County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Ada County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Ada County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Bannock County, Obituaries, 1963-2013 (clippings)
- Bear Lake County Obituaries
- Bingham County, Funeral records and Obituaries, 1980-2015
- Bingham County, Obituaries, 1983-2012 (clippings)
- Boise Obituary Index
- Bonner County Obituaries
- Bonner County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Bonner County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Boundary County Obituaries
- Boundary County Obituaries
- Buhl Herald Obituaries, 1964-1966 and 1968-1971
- Canyon County Obituaries
- Canyon County Obituaries (clippings)
- Canyon County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Caribou County, Soda Springs, obituaries, 2015
- Cassia County, obituaries, 1907-2007 (clippings)
- Cassia County, obituaries, 1972-2013 (clippings)
- Clearwater County Obituaries
- Coeur d’Alene Press, Obituary Index
- Eastern Idaho Death and Obituary Index
- Eastern Idaho obituaries, 1977 to 1991 (clippings)
- Eastern Idaho obituaries, 1977 to 1991 (clippings)
- Emmett area, Gem County, Obituaries from local papers, 1960 to 1986
- Gem County Obituaries
- Gem County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Gem County, Emmett Area, Obituaries, (1873-1960)
- Gooding County Obituary Indexes
- Hartford Times Obituaries 1961-1963 (clippings)
- Idaho GenealogyBuff Obituary Files
- Idaho County Obituaries
- Idaho County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Idaho Falls, The Post-Register Obituaries, January through December 1965 (clippings)
- Idaho Falls, The Post-Register, Obituaries, January through December 1964 (clippings)
- Idaho Falls, Post Register newspaper obituaries index, 1886-1992
- Idaho Obituaries – Obit City
- Idaho USGenWeb Obituary Project
- Idaho, Miscellaneous Funeral Home Obituaries, 1990-2017
- Idaho, Obituary Collection, 1868-2013
- Idaho, Southeast Counties Obituaries, 1864-2007
- Idaho, Southern Counties Obituaries, 1943-2013
- Jerome County Obituaries
- Kootenai County Obituaries
- Kootenai County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Latah County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Logan Newspaper Obituaries (clippings)
- Minidoka County, Obituaries, 1907-2015 (clippings)
- Minidoka County, Rupert, Obituaries, 1964-1969 (clippings)
- Nez Perce County (transcriptions)
- Oneida County, Miscellaneous obituary files
- Oneida County, Obituaries, 1909-2010
- Payette County Deaths and Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Payette County Obituaries
- Ririe-Shelton District, Obituary Collection (clippings)
- Shoshone County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- South Idaho Press, Burley, Obituaries 1999-2007 (clippings)
- Southeast Counties Deaths and Obituaries, 1864-2007 (transcriptions)
- Southern Counties Deaths and Obituaries, 1943-2013 (transcriptions)
- Twin Falls County Obituaries
- Twin Falls Daily News, Obituaries, (1931-1964) (clippings)
- Twin Falls, Idaho Times News, Intermountain Obituaries (1965) (clippings)
- Valley County Obituaries (transcriptions and clippings)
- Valley County Obituary Indexes
- Valley County, obituaries, 1940-2000 (clippings)
- Washington County Obituaries
If you wish to search this state’s historic newspapers for obituaries, click on Idaho Online Historical Newspapers Summary
Good Luck and Happy Hunting!
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