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 Nebraska 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
Nebraska
- Antelope County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Boone County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Buffalo County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Burt County Obituaries
- Butler County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Cass County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Cedar County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Cedar County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Colfax County Miscellaneous Obituaries
- Columbus Library Obituary Index
- Cuming County Obituaries
- Custer County Obituaries
- Custer County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Dawes County, Obituaries, 1921-2016 (clippings)
- Dixon County Death Notices and Obituaries
- Dodge County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Douglas County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Dundy County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Fairbury Obituary Index
- Farnam Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Franklin County Obituary Index
- Franklin County, Obituaries, 1890-2000 (clippings)
- Gage County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Gage County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Garfield County Obituary Index
- Geneva, Nebraska Signal Obituaries 1995-1999 (transcriptions)
- Greeley County Obituaries
- Greeley County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Greeley County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Hall County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Holt County Obituaries
- Howard County Vital Records and Obituary Indexes
- Jefferson County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Jefferson County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Keith County News Obituary Index
- Knox County Obituary Index
- Lancaster County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Lincoln Death and Obituary Index
- Lincoln Public Library Obituary Index
- Madison County Genealogical Society Obituaries
- Nebraska Newspaper Extraction Project (Index)
- Nebraska GenealogyBuff Obituary Files
- Nebraska Obituaries
- Nebraska Obituaries – Obit City
- Nebraska Obituary Abstracts
- Nebraska USGenWeb Obituary Project
- 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
- Otoe County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Phelps County, Obituaries, 1881-2017 (clippings)
- Phelps County, Obituaries, 1887-1937 (transcriptions)
- Pierce County Call and Pierce County Leader Obituary Index
- Platte County Columbus Telegram Obituary Index
- Platte County Obituary Indexes
- Pottawattamie County Newspapers Obituary Index
- Randolph Times Newspaper Obituary Index
- Red Willow County Obituary Index
- Sarpy County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Saunders County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Sheridan County Obituaries
- Thayer County Obituaries
- Valley County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Washington County Death and Obituary Index
- York County Obituary Index
If you wish to search this state’s historic newspapers for obituaries, click on Nebraska Online Historical Newspapers Summary
Good Luck and Happy Hunting!
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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