
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
Missouri Obituaries
- Adair County Obituary Indexes
- Adair County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Adair County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Andrew County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Andrew County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Andrew County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Atchison County Deaths from Newspapers
- Atchison County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Atchison County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Atchison County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Audrain County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Audrain County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Audrain County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Barry County Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Barry County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Barry County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Barry County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Barton County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Barton County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Barton County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Bates County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Bates County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Benton County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Benton County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Bollinger County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Bollinger County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Bollinger County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Boone County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Boone County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Boone County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Buchanan County Death and Obituary Index
- Buchanan County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Buchanan County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Buchanan County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Butler County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Butler County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Caldwell County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Caldwell County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Caldwell County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Callaway County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Callaway County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Callaway County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Callaway Obituaries 1848-1873
- Callaway Obituary Index
- Camden County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Camden County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Camden County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Cape Girardeau County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Cape Girardeau County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Carroll County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Carroll County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Carroll County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Carter County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Carter County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Carter County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Cass County Historical Society Obituaries
- Cass County Obituary Index
- Cass County Memorial Card & Obituary Collection
- Cass County, Missouri, Obituary Index, 1870-2011
- Cass County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Cass County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Catholic Tribune Deaths
- Cedar County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Cedar County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Cedar County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Chariton County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Chariton County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Chariton County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Christian County Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Christian County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Christian County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Christian County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Clark County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Clark County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Clay County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Clay County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Clay County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Clinton County Death Notices
- Clinton County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Clinton County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Clinton County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Cole County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Cole County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Cooper County Obituaries
- Cooper County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Cooper County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Cooper County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Crawford County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Crawford County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Crawford County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Dade County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Dade County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Dallas County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Dallas County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Daviess County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Daviess County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Dekalb County Death Notices from area Newspapers 1907-1910
- DeKalb County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- DeKalb County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Dent County Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Dent County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Dent County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Dent County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Douglas County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Douglas County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Dunklin County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Dunklin County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Dunklin County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Farmington Area Obituaries (Clippings)
- Franklin County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Franklin County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Franklin County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Gasconade County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Gasconade County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Gasconade Valley Obituary Indexes
- Gentry County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Gentry County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Greene County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Greene County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Grundy County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Grundy County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Grundy County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Harrison County Obituary Index
- Harrison County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Harrison County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Harrison County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Henry County Obituary Index (Transcriptions)
- Henry County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Henry County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Hickory County Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Hickory County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Hickory County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Hickory County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Holt County Deaths from Newspapers
- Holt County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Holt County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Howard County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Howard County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Howard County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Howell County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Howell County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Howell County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Iron County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Iron County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Iron County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Jackson County Obituaries
- Jackson County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Jackson County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Jackson County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Jasper County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Jasper County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Jasper County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Jefferson County Newspaper Index
- Jefferson County Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Jefferson County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Jefferson County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Johnson County Obituaries 1985
- Johnson County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Johnson County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Johnson County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Johnson County, Obituary Index
- Kirksville Daily Express Obituary Index
- Knox County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Knox County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Knox County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Laclede County, New Hope Cemetery, Burials and Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Laclede County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Laclede County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Lafayette County, Obituaries (Abstracts)
- Lafayette County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Lafayette County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Lawrence County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Lawrence County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Lewis County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Lewis County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Lewis County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Lincoln County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Lincoln County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Linn County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Linn County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Livingston County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Livingston County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Livingston County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Macon County Obituary Indexes
- Macon County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Macon County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Macon County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Madison County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Maries County Obituary Indexes
- Maries County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Marion County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Marion County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- McDonald County Area Obituary Index
- McDonald County, Missouri, Obituary Index, 1899-2008
- McDonald County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- McDonald County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- McDonald County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Mercer County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Mercer County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Mercer County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Midwest Genealogy Center Indexes (Transcriptions)
- Miller County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Miller County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Miller County Obituaries Index (Transcriptions)
- Mississippi County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Mississippi County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Missouri GenealogyBuff Obituary Files
- Missouri men from Newspapers, Obituary Index, 1808-1854
- Missouri Obituaries – Obit City
- Missouri Obituaries (Clippings) 1968
- Missouri Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Missouri, St. Louis Public Library Obituary Index, 1880-2011
- Moniteau County Obituary Indexes
- Moniteau County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Moniteau County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Moniteau County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Monroe County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Monroe County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Monroe County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Montgomery County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Montgomery County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Montgomery County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Morgan County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Morgan County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- New Madrid County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- New Madrid County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- New Madrid County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Newton County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Newton County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Newton County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Nodaway County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Nodaway County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Nodaway County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- North Eastern Missouri Obituaries, ca. 1959-1981 (Clippings)
- Northwest Missouri Genealogical Society Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Oregon County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Oregon County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Oregon County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Osage County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Osage County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Ozark County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Ozark County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Ozark County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Ozarks Genealogical Society Obituary Index
- Ozarks Obituary Collection
- Pemiscot County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Pemiscot County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Perry County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Perry County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Pettis County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Pettis County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Phelps County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Phelps County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Phelps, Crawford, Dent and Washington Counties Obituaries, ca. 1880-1990 (Clippings)
- Pike County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Pike County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Platte County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Platte County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Platte County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Polk County Genealogical Society Obituary Index
- Polk County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Polk County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Polk County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Pulaski County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Putnam County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Putnam County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Putnam County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Ralls County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Ralls County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Randolph County Death and Obituary Indexes
- Randolph County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Randolph County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Ray County Obituary Indexes
- Ray County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Ray County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Ray County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Reynolds County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Reynolds County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Ripley County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Ripley County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Ripley County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Saline County Obituary Index
- Saline County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Saline County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Saline County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Schuyler County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Scotland County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Scotland County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Scott County Obituaries
- Scott County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Scott County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Scott County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Shannon County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Shannon County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Shelby County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Shelby County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Shelby County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Sparta News-Plaindealer, Births, Marriages and Obituaries (Clippings)
- Springfield, Greene County, Newspaper Clippings, 1939-1991
- St. Charles County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- St. Charles County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- St. Clair County, Missouri, U.S., Obituarie Index, 1888-1928
- St. Clair County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- St. Clair County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- St. Clair County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- St. Francois County Obituary Index (Clippings)
- St. Francois County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- St. Francois County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- St. Francois County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- St. Genevieve County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- St. Joseph Gazette Deaths
- St. Joseph Public Library Obituary Database
- St. Louis Argus Obituary Index
- St. Louis Christian Advocate Obituaries Index 1851-1882
- St. Louis County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- St. Louis County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- St. Louis County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- St. Louis Globe-Democrat Obituary Clipping Index
- St. Louis Globe-Democrat Obituary Index
- St. Louis Obituary Index
- St. Louis Post-Dispatch Obituary Search
- St. Louis Sun Obituary Index, 1989-1990
- St. Louis, Missouri, St. Louis Post-Dispatch Obituary Index, 1880-2009
- Stoddard County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Stoddard County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Stone County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Sullivan County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Sullivan County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Taney County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Taney County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Taney County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Texas County Obituaries, 1939-1981
- Texas County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Texas County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Texas County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Vernon County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Vernon County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Vernon County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Warren 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)
- Westliche Post Obituaries Index 1876-1894
- Weston Chronicle and Buchanan County News, Obituaries (Clippings)
- Worth County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Worth County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Worth County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Wright County Progress Death Notices and Obituaries, 1900 -1910 (Clippings)
- Wright County Republican and The Hartville Democrat Death Notices and Obituaries (Clippings)
- Wright County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Wright County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Wright County, Progress Newspaper, Death Notices and Obituaries 1900-1910 (Clippings)
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