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 Louisiana 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
Louisiana
- Acadia Parish Death and Obituary Index
- Allen Parish Miscellaneous Obituaries
- Ascension Parish Obituaries
- Ascension Parish Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Assumption Parish Pioneer Extracts
- Assumption Parish, Death Notices, 1867-1954
- Baton Rouge Obituary Index
- Beauregard Parish Miscellaneous Obituaries
- Bossier Parish Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Caddo Parish Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Caddo Parish Obituaries Miscellaneous (transcriptions)
- Calcasieu Parish Death and Obituary Indexes
- Catahoula Parish Obituary Records
- East Baton Rouge Obituaries Miscellaneous (transcriptions)
- East Baton Rouge Public Library Advocate Obituary Indexes 1952-1991
- East Baton Rouge Parish Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Franklin Parish Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Iberia Parish Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Jefferson Parish Death and Obituary Index
- Jefferson Parish Obituaries Miscellaneous (transcriptions)
- Lafayette Advertiser Obituaries
- Lafayette Parish Obituaries Miscellaneous (transcriptions)
- Lafourche Parish Obituaries
- Lafourche Parish Obituaries (transcriptions)
- LaSalle Parish Obituaries
- Livingston Parish Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Louisiana Biography and Obituary – Death and Obituary Index
- Louisiana GenealogyBuff Obituary Files
- Louisiana Obituaries – Obit City
- Louisiana Obituary Indexes by Parish
- Louisiana USGenWeb Obituary Project
- Madison Parish Obituaries
- Monroe News-Star Obituaries 2006-2013 (transcriptions)
- Morehouse Parish Obituary Records
- New Orleans, Mothe Funeral Home, Death Records and Obituaries, 1923-1991
- New Orleans, Obituaries Scrap Album (clippings)
- Orleans Parish Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Orleans Parish Obituaries 2005-2011 (transcriptions)
- Orleans Parish Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Orleans Parish Times Picayune Obituary Index
- Ouachita Parish Obituaries
- Ouachita Parish Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Plaquemines Parish Obituary Indexes
- Rapides Parish Library Obituary Index Search
- Rapides Parish Obituaries Index (transcriptions)
- Richland Parish Obituaries
- Sabine Parish Obituary Records (transcriptions)
- St. Helena Parish Obituaries
- St. John the Baptist Parish Obituaries
- St. Landry Parish Obituaries (transcriptions)
- St. Tammany Parish Obituaries Miscellaneous (transcriptions)
- Tangipahoa Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Tangipahoa Parish Obituaries and Obituary Index (transcriptions)
- Terrebonne Parish Obituaries (transcriptions)
- The East Baton Rouge Advocate Obituary Index
- Times Picayune Obituary Notices
- Union Parish Obituaries
- Vernon Parish Obituaries (transcriptions and clippings)
- Washington Parish Library Obituary Indexes
- Washington Parish Obituaries
- Washington Parish Obituary Indexes
- West Carroll Parish Obituaries
- West Carroll Parish Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Winn Parish Obituary Records
If you wish to search this state’s historic newspapers for obituaries, click on Louisiana Online Historical Newspapers Summary
Good Luck and Happy Hunting!
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