
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 September 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
Kansas
- Allen County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Allen County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Allen County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Anderson County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Anderson County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Anderson County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Atchison County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Atchison County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Atchison County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Atchison Globe Obituaries (clippings)
- Barber County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Barber County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Barber County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Barton County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Barton County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Barton County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Bourbon County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Bourbon County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Bourbon County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Brown County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Brown County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Brown County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Butler County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Butler County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Butler County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Chapman newspapers, Obituaries 1901-1930 (transcriptions)
- Chase County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Chase County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Chase County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Chase County, Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Chautauqua County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Chautauqua County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Cherokee County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Cherokee County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Cherokee County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Cheyenne County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Clark County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Clark County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Clay County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Clay County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Cloud County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Cloud County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Cloud County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Coffey County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Coffey County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Coffey County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Comanche County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Comanche County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Cowley County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Cowley County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Cowley County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Crawford County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Crawford County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Crawford County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Decatur County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Decatur County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Decatur County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Dickinson County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Dickinson County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Doniphan County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Doniphan County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Doniphan County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Douglas County Newspaper Index (includes deaths and obituaries)
- Douglas County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Douglas County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Douglas County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Edwards County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Edwards County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Elk County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Elk County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Ellis County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Ellis County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Ellsworth County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Ellsworth County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Emporia Gazette Obituary Index
- Emporia Gazette, Indexes to Death Notices
- Eureka, The Lutheran Newspaper, Obituaries and other Genealogical extracts
- Fairview, The Courier, births, deaths & marriages & other articles of genealogical interest 1893 – 1896
- Finney County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Finney County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Finney County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Ford County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Ford County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Ford County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Franklin County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Franklin County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Geary County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Geary County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Gove County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Gove County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Gove County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Graham County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Graham County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Graham County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Grant County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Grant County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Gray County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Gray County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Greeley County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Greeley County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Greenwood County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Greenwood County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Greenwood County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Hamilton County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Harper County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Harper County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Harvey County Database (transcriptions)
- Harvey County Genealogical Society Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Harvey County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Harvey County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Harvey County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Haskell County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Hodgeman County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Hodgeman County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Jackson County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Jackson County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Jefferson County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Jefferson County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Jewell County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Jewell County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Jewell County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Johnson County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Johnson County Obituary Index
- Johnson County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Johnson County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Johnson County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Kansas GenealogyBuff Obituary Files
- Kansas Obituaries – Obit City
- Kansas, Fraternal Order Death Notices Index
- Kearny County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Kearny County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Kingman County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Kingman County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Kiowa County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Kiowa County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Labette County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Labette County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Labette County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Lane County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Lane County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Leavenworth County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Leavenworth County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Lincoln County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Lincoln County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Lincoln County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Linn County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Linn County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Linn County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Logan County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Logan County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Lyon County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Lyon County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Lyon County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Marion County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Marion County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Marshall County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Marshall County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Marshall County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- McPherson County Obituary Index
- McPherson County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- McPherson County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- McPherson Obituary Index
- Meade County Obituary Index
- Meade County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Meade County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Miami County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Miami County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Miami County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Mitchell County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Mitchell County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Montgomery County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Montgomery County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Montgomery County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Morris County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Morris County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Morris County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Morton County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Morton County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Morton County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Nemaha County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Nemaha County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Neosho County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Neosho County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Neosho County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Ness County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Ness County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Newton Obituary Index
- Norton County Deaths and Obituaries
- Norton County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Norton County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Norton County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Onaga Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Osage County Cemeteries & Old Soldiers & Obituaries
- Osage County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Osage County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Osage County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Osborne County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Ottawa County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Ottawa County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Ottawa Obituaries 1965-1999
- Ottawa Obituaries 2000-2003
- Pawnee County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Pawnee County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Phillips County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Phillips County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Plainville Times Obituary Index
- Pleasanton Herald Obituaries 1885-97
- Pottawatomie County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Pottawatomie County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Pottawatomie County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Pratt County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Pratt County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Rawlins County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Rawlins County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Rawlins County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Reno County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Reno County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Reno County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Republic County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Republic County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Rice County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Rice County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Rice County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Riley County, Obituaries (clippings)
- Riley County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Riley County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Rooks County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Rooks County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Rooks County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Rossville People and Obituary Search
- Rush County Deaths and Obituaries Index
- Rush County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Rush County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Russell County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Russell County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Russell County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Saline County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Saline County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Scott County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Sedgwick County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Sedgwick County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Sedgwick County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Seward County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Seward County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Shawnee County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Shawnee County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Shawnee County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Sheridan County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Sheridan County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Sheridan County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Sherman County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Sherman County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Smith County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Smith County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Stafford County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Stafford County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Stafford County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Stanton County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Stanton County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Stevens County Obituary Index
- Stevens County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Stevens County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Stevens County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Sumner County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Sumner County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Sumner County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Thomas County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Thomas County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Topeka and Shawnee County Obituaries Index
- Trego County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Trego County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Wabaunsee County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Wabaunsee County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Wallace County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Wallace County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Washington County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Washington County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Wichita County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Wichita County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Wichita County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Wichita Eagle/Beacon Obituary Index
- Wichita Newspapers Obituary Index
- Wilson County Death and Obituary Index
- Wilson County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Wilson County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Woodson County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Woodson County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Woodson County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Wyandotte County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Wyandotte County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Wyandotte County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
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