
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
Nebraska Obituaries
- Adams County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Adams County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Antelope County Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Antelope County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Antelope County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Antelope County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Arthur County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Arthur County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Banner County, Obituaries (Index)
- Banner County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Banner County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Blaine County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Blaine County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Blaine County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Boone County Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Boone County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Boone County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Boone County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Box Butte County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Boyd County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Boyd County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Brown County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Brown County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Buffalo County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Buffalo County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Buffalo County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Burt County Obituaries
- Burt County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Burt County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Butler County Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Butler County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Butler County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Cass County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Cass County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Cass County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Cedar County Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Cedar County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Cedar County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Chase County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Cherry County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Cherry County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Cheyenne County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Cheyenne County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Clay County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Clay County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Colfax County Miscellaneous Obituaries
- Colfax County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Colfax County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Colfax County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Columbus Library Obituary Index
- Cuming County Obituaries
- Cuming County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Cuming County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Cuming County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Custer County Obituaries
- Custer County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Custer County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Dakota County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Dakota County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Dakota County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Dawes County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Dawes County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Dawes County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Dawes County, Obituaries, 1921-2016 (Clippings)
- Dawson County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Dawson County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Dawson County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Deuel County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Deuel County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Dixon County Death Notices and Obituaries
- Dixon County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Dixon County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Dixon County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Dodge County Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Dodge County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Dodge County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Dodge County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Douglas County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Douglas County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Douglas County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Dundy County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Fairbury Obituary Index
- Farnam, Obituaries and Index (Transcriptions)
- Fillmore County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Fillmore County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Fillmore County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Franklin County Obituary Index
- Franklin County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Franklin County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Franklin County, Obituaries, 1890-2000 (Clippings)
- Frontier County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Furnas County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Furnas County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Gage County Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Gage County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Gage County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Gage County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Garden County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Garfield County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Garfield County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Gosper County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Grant County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Greeley County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Greeley County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Hall County Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Hall County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Hall County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Hamilton County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Hamilton County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Harlan County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Harlan County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Harlan County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Hayes County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Hayes County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Hitchcock County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Hitchcock County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Holt County Obituaries
- Holt County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Holt County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Hooker County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Howard County Vital Records and Obituary Indexes
- Howard County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Jefferson County Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Jefferson County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Jefferson County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Johnson County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Kearney County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Kearney County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Keith County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Keith County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Keya Paha County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Keya Paha County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Kimball County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Kimball County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Knox County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Knox County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Lancaster County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Lancaster County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Lincoln County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Lincoln County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Lincoln County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Lincoln Death and Obituary Index
- Lincoln Public Library Obituary Index
- Logan County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Logan County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Loup County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Madison County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Madison County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- McPherson County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- McPherson County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Merrick County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Merrick County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Morrill County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Nance County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Nance County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Nebraska GenealogyBuff Obituary Files
- Nebraska Newspaper Extraction Project (Index)
- Nebraska Obituaries
- Nebraska Obituaries – Obit City
- Nebraska Obituary Abstracts
- Nebraska Obituary and Death Notice Archive (Transcriptions)
- Nebraska, Miscellaneous Obituaries
- Nemaha County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Nemaha County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Nuckolls County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Nuckolls County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Obituary Index from American Citizen Newspaper, Omaha, Nebraska
- Obituary Index from Omaha Guide Newspaper (North Omaha Newspaper)
- Obituary Index from South Omaha Sun Newspaper
- Omaha Guide Newspaper Obituary Index 1932 – 1958
- Omaha Obits Index
- Omaha Obituary Index
- Omaha World-Herald, Mortuary Notices and Obituaries, 1986-1993 (Clippings)
- Otoe County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Otoe County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Otoe County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Pawnee County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Pawnee County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Pawnee County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Perkins County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Perkins County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Perkins County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Phelps County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Phelps County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Phelps County, Obituaries, 1881-2017 (Clippings)
- Phelps County, Obituaries, 1887-1937 (Transcriptions)
- Pierce County Call and Pierce County Leader Obituary Index
- Pierce County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Pierce County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Platte County Columbus Telegram Obituary Index
- Platte County Obituary Indexes
- Platte County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Platte County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Platte County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Polk County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Pottawattamie County Newspapers Obituary Index
- Randolph Times Newspaper Obituary Index
- Red Willow County Obituary Index
- Red Willow County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Red Willow County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Richardson County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Rock County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Rock County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Saline County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Saline County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Sarpy County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Sarpy County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Saunders County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Scotts Bluff County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Scotts Bluff County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Seward County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Sheridan County Obituaries
- Sheridan County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Sheridan County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Sherman County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Sherman County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Sioux County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Stanton County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Stanton County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Thayer County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Thayer County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Thayer County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Thomas County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Thomas County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Thurston County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Thurston County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Thurston County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Valley County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Washington County Death and Obituary Index
- 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)
- Wheeler County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- York County Metz Mortuary Obituaries
- York County Obituary Index
- York County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- York County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- York County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
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5 replies on “Free Nebraska Obituaries and Obituary Index Links”
Trying to find obit for Matilda Hickey Derr and husband John Derr interred in Tecumesh, Johnson County, Nebraska. John b Feb 28 1828 d Mar 18 1911. Matilda b 1829 d Aug 8 1898.
Looking for info on my gggrandfather, Daniel Morgan, who settled Seward County Nebraska.
Needing help finding an obit for a great-great-uncle. Died late October 1903 in ‘western Nebraska’. There was apparently an accident with a threshing machine, his hand was caught it in. Blood poison set it and it killed him. Left a wife Rachael Ina and son Gean/Gene. No more specifics other than ‘western Nebraska’.
Dundy County obituary index – Obits may be requested by email.
Laura,
Could you give me the url for the Dundy County Obituary Index? I have searched and can’t seem to find one.
Thanks