
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
Indiana Obituaries
- Adams County, Indiana, and surrounding area, Obituaries 1962-1963-1964
- Adams County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Adams County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Adams County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Allen County Area Obituary Index
- Allen County Obituary Index, 1900-December 18, 2022
- Allen County, Indiana, Obituary Index, 1841-2010
- Allen County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Allen County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Allen County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Anderson Daily Bulletin and Herald Bulletin Obituary Index, 1907-1997
- Anderson Herald Bulletin Obituary Index,m 1998-2017
- Bartholomew County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Bartholomew County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Bartholomew County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Benton County, Funeral Cards and Obituaries (Clippings)
- Benton County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Benton County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Blackford County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Blackford County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Blackford County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Boone County Indexes
- Boone County Obituary Indexes
- Boone County, Indiana Obituary Extracts, 1921-1930
- Boone County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Boone County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Boone County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Bremen County Obituaries (Clippings)
- Brown County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Brown County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Brownsburg Public Library Death and Obituary Index
- Carroll County Obituaries
- Carroll County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Carroll County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Carroll County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Cass County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Cass County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Cass County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Clark County Obituary Index
- Clark County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Clay County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Clay County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Clay County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Clinton County Obituaries
- Clinton County Obituary Index
- Clinton County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Clinton County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Clinton County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Columbia City Obituary Indexes
- Crawford County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Crawford County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Crawfordsville District Public Library Obituary Search
- Crown Point Obituary Index
- Culver Necrology File Obituaries (Clippings)
- Daviess County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Daviess County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Daviess County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Daviess County, Washington Times Herald Obituaries, 1984-2012 (Clippings)
- Dearborn County Death and Obituary Index
- Dearborn County Newspaper Obituary Index
- Dearborn County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Dearborn County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Dearborn County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Dearborn County, Obituaries Extracts, 1820-1850
- Decatur County Obituaries
- Decatur County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Decatur County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Decatur County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Decatur Daily Democrat Obituary Index (Transcriptions)
- DeKalb County Death and Obituary Index (Clippings)
- DeKalb County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- DeKalb County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- DeKalb County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Delaware County Obituary Index
- Delaware County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Delaware County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Delaware County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Dubois County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Dubois County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Dubois County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Edinburgh Obituaries
- Edinburgh Wright-Hageman Public Library Death and Obituary Index (Transcriptions)
- Elkhart County Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Elkhart County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Elkhart County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Elkhart County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Elkhart Truth Death and Obituary Index
- Evansville Area and Southwestern Indiana Death and Obituary Index
- Evansville Newspaper Index
- Fayette County Library Death and Obituary Index
- Fayette County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Fayette County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Floyd County Death and Obituary Newspaper Index (Transcriptions)
- Floyd County Obituaries
- Floyd County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Floyd County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Floyd County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette Index to Obituaries 1900-1918
- Fort Wayne Newspapers, Obituary Records 1841-1900
- Fort Wayne News-Sentinel and the Journal-Gazette, Obituary Records January 1, 1919 – February 23, 1938
- Fountain County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Fountain County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Fountain County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Franklin County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Franklin County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Fulton County Death and Obituary Index (Transcriptions)
- Fulton County Obituary Index
- Fulton County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Fulton County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Garrett Public Library Death and Obituary Index
- Gibson County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Gibson County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Gibson County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Goodland Herald Newspaper, Obituary Index 1904-1935, missing years 1906, 1908, 1909 & 1931
- Grant County Death and Obituary Index
- Grant County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Grant County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Grant County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Greene County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Greene County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Greensburg-Decatur County Public Library Obituary Index
- Hamilton County Newspaper Death and Obituary Index
- Hamilton County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Hamilton County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Hammond Times Obituary Index
- Hancock County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Hancock County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Harrison County Public Library Obituary Index
- Harrison County, Index Cards to Corydon Democrat Newspaper Obituaries, 1861-2008
- Harrison County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Harrison County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Harrison County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Harrison County, Obituaries, Birth and Marriage announcements, 1845-2005 (Transcriptions)
- Hendricks County Death and Obituary Index
- Hendricks County Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Hendricks County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Hendricks County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Hendricks County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Henry County Obituary Indexes
- Henry County, Indiana, Newspaper and Obituary Index, 1800-1993
- Henry County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Henry County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Henry County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Howard County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Howard County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Howard County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Huntington County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Huntington County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Indiana GenealogyBuff Obituary Files
- Indiana Legacy Death and Obituary Index
- Indiana Newspaper Indexes
- Indiana Obituaries – Obit City
- Indiana USGenWeb Obituary Project
- Jackson County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Jackson County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Jackson County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Jamestown, Boone County, Abstracted Obits and Biographies, 1898-1902
- Jasper County Public Library Obituary Index
- Jasper County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Jasper County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Jasper County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Jay County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Jay County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Jay County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Jefferson County Obituary Index
- Jefferson County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Jefferson County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Jefferson County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Jennings County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Jennings County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Jennings County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Johnson County Obituaries
- Johnson County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Johnson County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Johnson County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Knox County Obituary Indexes
- Knox County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Knox County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Knox County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Kokomo Miscellaneous Obituaries Index
- Kokomo Newspapers Death and Obituary Index 2003-
- Kokomo Tribune Obituary Index
- Kosciusko County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Kosciusko County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Kosciusko County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Lafayette Leader Death and Obituary Index
- LaGrange County Obituaries
- LaGrange County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- LaGrange County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- LaGrange County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Lake County Obituary Index
- Lake County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Lake County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Lake County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Lapel/Pendleton Deaths and Obituaries Index, 1870-2007
- LaPorte County Obituary Indexes (Transcriptions)
- LaPorte County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- LaPorte County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- LaPorte County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Lawrence County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Lawrence County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Lawrence County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Lawrenceburg Public Library Death and Obituary Index
- Lebanon Patriot & Weekly Patriot Online Index of Obituaries and Death Notices from 1870–73
- Lebanon Reporter Obituary Index
- Logansport Obituary Index
- Logansport Weekly Journal, Abstracts 1849-1870
- Madison County Obituary Indexes
- Madison County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Madison County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Madison County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Marion County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Marion County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Marion Public Library, Obituary Index Search
- Marshall County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Marshall County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Martin County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Martin County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Martin County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Miami County Death and Obituary Indexes
- Miami County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Miami County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Michigan City Obituary Index
- Michigan City, Indiana, Obituary Index, 1887-2011
- Monroe County Obituary Index
- Monroe County Obituary Index
- Monroe County, Indiana, Obituary Index, 1899-2011
- Monroe County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Monroe County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Monroe County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Montgomery County, Indiana, Obituary Index, 1877-2010
- Montgomery County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Montgomery County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Montgomery County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Mooresville Public Library Death and Obituary Index
- Morgan County Public Library Death and Obituary Index
- Morgan County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Morgan County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Morgan County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Newton County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Newton County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Newton County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Noble County Genealogical Society Death and Obituary Index
- Noble County Obituary Index (Transcriptions)
- Noble County Obituaries
- Noble County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Noble County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Noble County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Noble County, Albion New Era, Obituaries : Obituaries and news items from other sources in Noble County,
- North Madison Public Library/Elwood Death and Obituary Index
- North Webster Death and Obituary Index
- Ohio County Obituary Index
- Ohio County, Obituaries (Index)
- Ohio County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Orange County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Orange County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Orange County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Owen County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Owen County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Owen County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Parke County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Parke County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Parke County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Perry County Death and Obituary Index (Transcriptions)
- Perry County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Perry County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Peru Death and Obituary Index
- Pike County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Plymouth, Marshall County Obituary Index
- Porter County Death and Obituary Index
- Porter County Death and Obituary Index (Transcriptions)
- Porter County Obituary Indexes
- Porter County, Indiana, Vidette-Messenger and Vidette-Times Obituary Index, 1927-2011
- Porter County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Porter County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Posey County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Posey County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Posey County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Pulaski County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Pulaski County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Pulaski County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Putnam County Deaths and Obituaries (Clippings)
- Putnam County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Putnam County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Putnam County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Randolph County Obituaries
- Randolph County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Randolph County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Randolph County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Ripley County, Obituaries
- Ripley County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Ripley County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Ripley County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Rush County Obituary Index
- Rush County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Rush County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Rush County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Scott County Obituary Index to The Chronicle
- Scott County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Scott County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Shelby County Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Shelby County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Shelby County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Shelby County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- South Whitley area, Obituaries 1885-1930
- Spencer County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Spencer County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- St. Joseph County Obituary Index
- St. Joseph County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- St. Joseph County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- St. Joseph County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Starke County Obituary Indexes
- Starke County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Starke County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Starke County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Steuben County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Steuben County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Steuben County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Sullivan County Death and Obituary Index
- Sullivan County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Sullivan County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Switzerland County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Switzerland County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Switzerland County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Tippecanoe County Historical Association Obituary Indexes
- Tippecanoe County Obituary Index
- Tippecanoe County, Death and Obituary Indexes
- Tippecanoe County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Tippecanoe County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Tippecanoe County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Tipton County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Tipton County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Tri-state Obituaries: (Indiana-Ohio-Michigan), 1970-1974
- Union County Obituary Index
- Union County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Union County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Vanderburgh County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Vanderburgh County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Vanderburgh County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Vejay Obituary Indexes
- Vermillion County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Vermillion County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Vermillion County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Vigo County Obituary Index
- Vigo County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Vigo County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Vigo County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Wabash County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Wabash County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Wabash County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Wabash Plaindealer Death and Obituary Index
- Wabash Valley, Indiana, Obituary Index, 1900-2013
- Wakarusa Public Library Obituary Index (Transcriptions)
- Warren County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Warren County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Warrick County Death Notices and Obituary Indexes (Transcriptions)
- Warrick County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Warrick County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Warsaw Times-Union, and Milford The Paper, 1985 Obituary Abstracts
- Warsaw, Index to Obituaries
- Washington County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Washington County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Washington County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Wayne County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Wayne County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Wells County Obituary Index
- Wells County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Wells County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Wells County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Western Christian Advocate Obituaries and Marriages 1848-
- White County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- White County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- White County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Whitley County Obituaries Index 858-1910
- Whitley County Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Whitley County Peabody Public Library Death and Obituary Index
- Whitley County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Whitley County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Whitley County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
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