
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.
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
Mississippi Obituaries
- Adams County Miscellaneous Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Adams County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Adams County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Adams County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Alcorn County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Alcorn County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Alcorn County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Amite County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Amite County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Amite County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Attala County, Early Obituary Records (Transcriptions)
- Attala County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Attala County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Attala Short Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Benton County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Benton County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Bolivar County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Brookhaven Daily Leader Obituary Index
- Caledonia, Lowndes County, Burials and Obituaries, 1974-1983 (Transcriptions)
- Calhoun County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Calhoun County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Calhoun County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Carroll County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Carroll County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Carroll County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Chickasaw County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Chickasaw County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Choctaw County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Choctaw County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Claiborne County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Claiborne County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Claiborne County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Clarke County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Clarke County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Clarksdale, Obituaries from Newspaper Scrapbooks (clippings)
- Clay County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Clay County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Coahoma County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Copiah County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Copiah County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Copiah County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Covington County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Covington County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Desoto County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Desoto County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Desoto County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Forrest County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Forrest County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Franklin County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Franklin County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- George County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- George County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- George County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Greene County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Greene County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Grenada County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Grenada County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Grenada County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Hancock County Obituary Index
- Hancock County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Hancock County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Harrison County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Harrison County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Hinds County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Hinds County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Hinds County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Holmes County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Humphreys County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Humphreys County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Itawamba County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Itawamba County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Itawamba County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Jackson County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Jackson County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Jackson County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Jasper County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Jefferson County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Jefferson County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Jefferson County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Jefferson Davis County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Jones County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Jones County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Jones County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Kemper County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Kemper County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Kemper County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Lafayette County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Lafayette County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Lafayette County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Lamar County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Lamar County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Lauderdale County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Lauderdale County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Lauderdale County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Lawrence County Press Obituary Index
- Lawrence County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Lawrence County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Lawrence County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Leake County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Leake County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Lee County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Lee County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Lee County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Leflore County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Leflore County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Lincoln County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Lincoln County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Lincoln-Lawrence-Franklin Regional Library – Obituary Indexes
- Lowndes County Egger Cemetery Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Lowndes County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Lowndes County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Lowndes County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Madison County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Madison County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Marion County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Marion County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Marshall County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Marshall County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Marshall County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Mississippi GenealogyBuff Obituary Files
- Mississippi Obituaries – Obit City
- Monroe County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Monroe County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Montgomery County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Montgomery County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Montgomery County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Newton County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Noxubee County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Oktibbeha County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Panola County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Panola County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Pearl River County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Pearl River County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Perry County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Perry County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Pike County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Pike County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Pike County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Pontotoc County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Pontotoc County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Pontotoc County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Prentiss County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Prentiss County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Prentiss County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Quitman County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Quitman County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Rankin County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Rankin County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Rankin County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Scott County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Scott County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Scott County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Sharkey County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Simpson County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Smith County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Smith County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Stone County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Sunflower County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Sunflower County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Sunflower County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Tallahatchie County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Tallahatchie County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Tallahatchie County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Tate County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Tate County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Tippah County Death Notices
- Tippah County, Death Notices (Transcriptions)
- Tippah County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Tippah County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Tippah County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Tishomingo County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Tishomingo County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Tishomingo County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Tunica County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Tunica County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Union County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Union County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Union County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- University of Mississippi Miscellaneous Obituaries
- Walthall County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Walthall County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Walthall County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Warren County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Warren County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Warren County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Washington County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Washington County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Washington County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Wayne County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Wayne County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Webster County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Webster County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Wilkinson County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Wilkinson County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Winston County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Winston County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Winston County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Yalobusha County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Yalobusha County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Yazoo County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Yazoo County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Yazoo County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
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