
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
Nevada Obituaries
- Alpine County Records, including Obituaries., 1864-1983
- California/Nevada Newspaper Death Notices, 1863-1930
- Carson City County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Carson City County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Carson City County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Carson City Newspaper Index
- Carson City Recorder Genealogy Indexes
- Carson City Records, including Obituaries
- Churchill County Obituary Index
- Churchill County Records, including Obituaries
- Churchill County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Churchill County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Clark County Records, including Obituaries
- Clark County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Clark County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Douglas County Records, including Obituaries
- Douglas County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Douglas County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Elko County Records, including Obituaries, 1863-1938
- Elko County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Elko Daily Free Press Newspaper Clippings, 1967-1972
- Elko Independent (Clippings]: 1970-1972
- Esmeralda County Records, including Obituaries
- Esmeralda County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Esmeralda County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Esmeralda County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Eureka County Records, including Obituaries, 1864-1983
- Eureka County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Eureka County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Humboldt County Records, including Obituaries, 1861-1983
- Humboldt County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Humboldt County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Lander County Records, including Obituaries, 1886-1983
- Lander County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Lander County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Lander County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Lincoln County Records, 1871-1978
- Lincoln County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Lincoln County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Lincoln County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Lyon County Records, including Obituaries
- Lyon County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Lyon County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Mineral County Obituary Index
- Mineral County Records, including Obituaries
- Mineral County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Mineral County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Mineral County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Moapa Valley, Overton, and St. Thomas area Newspaper Clippings 1909-1931
- Nevada Appeal Obituary Index
- Nevada Death and Obituary Records from Various sources
- Nevada GenealogyBuff Obituary Files
- Nevada Historical Research Miscellaneous History, including Obituaries
- Nevada Obituaries – Obit City
- Nevada Obituary Archives (Index free only)
- Nevada State Journal: Vital Records, 1968-1971
- Nye County Records, including Obituaries
- Nye County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Nye County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Pahrump, Nevada Genealogical Society Obits 1970-2009 (Clippings)
- Pershing County Records, including Obituaries, 1922-1975
- Pershing County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Pershing County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Reno, Mountain View Cemetery, Newspaper Obituaries Indexes, 1924-1975
- Sparks & Washoe, Sparks Tribune, Vital Records, including Obituaries
- Sparks Tribune: Obituaries and Vital records (Clippings)
- Storey County Records, including Obituaries
- Storey County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Storey County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Washoe County Records, including Obituaries
- Washoe County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Washoe County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Western States Deseret News Deaths (card File) 1970
- White Pine County Records, including Obituaries
- White Pine County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- White Pine County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
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