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 Kansas 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
Kansas
- Allen County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Allen County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Anderson County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Anderson County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Atchison County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Atchison Globe Obituaries (clippings)
- Atchison County Obituaries
- Atchison County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Barber County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Barton County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Barton County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Bourbon County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Bourbon County Obituary Index
- Brown County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Butler County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Butler County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Chapman newspapers, Obituaries 1901-1930 (transcriptions)
- Chase County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Chase County Obituary Index
- Chase County, Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Chautauqua County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Chautauqua County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Cherokee County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Cherokee County Obituaries Index
- Cheyenne County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Clark County Obituaries
- Clark County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Clay County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Cloud County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Coffey County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Coffey County Obituary Index
- Comanche County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Cowley County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Crawford County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Crawford County Obituary Index
- Decatur County Obituaries
- Decatur County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Dickinson County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Doniphan County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Douglas County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Douglas County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Douglas County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Douglas County Newspaper Index (includes deaths and obituaries)
- Edwards County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Elk County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Elk County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Ellis County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Ellsworth County Obituaries and Death Notices (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 and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Ford County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Franklin County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Franklin County Obituary Index
- Geary County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Gove County Obituaries
- Gove County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Graham County Obituaries
- Graham County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Grant County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Gray County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Greeley County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Greenwood County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Hamilton County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Harper County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Harper County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Harvey County Database (transcriptions)
- Harvey County Genealogical Society Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Harvey County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Haskell County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Hodgeman County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Jackson County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Jackson County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Jefferson County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Jefferson County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Jewell County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Johnson County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Johnson County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Johnson County Obituary Index
- Johnson County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Kansas GenealogyBuff Obituary Files
- Kansas Genealogy Society Obituary Index 1870-1999
- Kansas Genealogy Society Obituary Index 2000-2006
- Kansas Obituaries – Obit City
- Kansas USGenWeb Obituary Project
- Kansas, Fraternal Order Death Notices Index
- Kearny County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Kingman County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Kiowa County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Labette County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Lane County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Leavenworth County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Leavenworth County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Lincoln County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Lincoln County Obituary Index (some transcribed)
- Linn County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Linn County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Logan County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Lyon County Obituaries
- Lyon County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Marion County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Marshall County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Marshall County Obituary Index (transcriptions)
- McPherson County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- McPherson County Obituary Index
- McPherson Obituary Index
- Meade County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Meade County Obituary Index
- Miami County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Miami County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Mitchell County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Montgomery County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Montgomery County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Morris County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Morton County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Nemaha County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Neosho County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Ness County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Newton Obituary Index
- Norton County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Norton County Obituary Index
- Onaga Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Osage City Library Obituary Index
- Osage County Cemeteries & Old Soldiers & Obituaries
- Osage County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Osage County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Osborne County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Ottawa County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Pawnee County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Phillips County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Plainville Times Obituary Index
- Pleasanton Herald Obituaries 1885-97
- Pottawatomie County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Pratt County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Rawlins County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Reno County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Reno County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Republic County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Rice County Obituaries
- Rice County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Riley County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Riley County, Obituaries (clippings)
- Rooks County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Rooks County Obituary Index
- Rossville People and Obituary Search
- Rush County Deaths and Obituaries Index
- Rush County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Russell County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Saline County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Scott County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Sedgwick County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Sedgwick County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Sedgwick County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Seward County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Seward County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Shawnee County Obituaries
- Shawnee County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Shawnee County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Sheridan County Obituaries
- Sheridan County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Sherman County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Smith County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Stafford County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Stanton County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Stevens County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Stevens County Obituary Index
- Sumner County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Thomas County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Topeka and Shawnee County Obituaries Index
- Trego County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Trego County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Wabaunsee County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Wallace County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Washington County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Washington County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Wichita County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Wichita Eagle/Beacon Obituary Index
- Wichita Newspapers Obituary Index
- Wilson County Death and Obituary Index
- Wilson County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Woodson County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Wyandotte County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Wyandotte County Obituaries
If you wish to search this state’s historic newspapers for obituaries, click on Kansas Online Historical Newspapers Summary
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