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 Montana 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
Montana
- Big Horn County Obituaries
- Billings Gazette Obituary Indexes
- Billings Gazette, Lovell Chronicle, The Yellowstone County News, and The Billings Outpost, Obituaries, 2002, 2003, 2004 (clippings)
- Billings, Yellowstone County Obituaries 1955-1969
- Cascade County Death and Obituary Indexes
- Cascade County, Index to Obituaries, 1880-2002
- Dillon Obituaries 2003-04 (transcriptions)
- Fallon County Obituaries
- Fergus County Deaths and Obituaries from Lewiston Newspaper (transcriptions)
- Flathead County Deaths and Obituaries (clippings)
- Fort Benton, River Press, Obituaries, 1882-1921
- Gallatin County Death and Obituary Indexes
- Gallatin County Obituary Index
- Glasgow – St. Raphael Parish Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Granite County Obituaries
- Great Falls Pioneers, Obituaries, 1917-1944 (clippings)
- Havre Hill Deaths and Obituaries (clippings)
- Hill County Obituaries and Death Notices
- Kalispell, Daily Interlake, Obituaries 1999 – 2004, 2011 – 2015 (clippings)
- Lewis and Clark County Obituary Indexes
- Liberty County Deaths and Obituaries (clippings)
- Liberty County Obituaries (clippings)
- Liberty County Obituaries and Death Notices
- Madison County, Madisonian Obituary Index 1996-2002
- Madison County Obituaries
- Madison County, Obituaries, 1870-1933 (clippings)
- Mineral County Deaths and Obituary Clippings, 1870-2010
- Missoula County Obituary Index
- Montana GenealogyBuff Obituary Files
- Montana Memory Project Obituaries (clippings)
- Montana Obituaries – Obit City
- Montana USGenWeb Obituary Project
- Polson, Tribal Obituaries (clippings)
- Ravalli County Newspapers Obituary Indexes 1999-2005
- Ravalli County Deaths and Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Rosebud County Obituaries and Death Notices
- Sweetgrass County Obituary Indexes
- Teton County Obituary Index
- Toole County Obituaries and Death Notices
- Yellowstone County Obituaries and Death Notices
If you wish to search this state’s historic newspapers for obituaries, click on Montana Online Historical Newspapers Summary
Good Luck and Happy Hunting!
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