
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
New Jersey Obituaries
- Atlantic City Newspaper Obituary and Newspaper Index Search
- Atlantic County Miscellaneous Obituary Collection Links
- Atlantic County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Atlantic County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Atlantic County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Bayonne Herald and Greenville Register Obituary Index
- Belvidere Obituary Index
- Bergen County Newspaper and Obituary Indexes
- Bergen County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Bergen County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Bernardsville News Obituary Index
- Bloomfield Obituary Indexes
- Burlington County Library Newspaper Notices Index
- Burlington County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Burlington County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Burlington County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Camden County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Camden County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Camden County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Cape May County Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Cape May County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Cape May County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Cumberland County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Cumberland County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Dover Daily Journal Obituary Index
- Elizabeth Genealogy Vertical File Index
- Essex County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Essex County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Gloucester County Announcements (index)
- Gloucester County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Gloucester County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Hackensack Republican Newspaper and Obituary Index 1873-1938
- Hudson County Genealogical Society – Genealogy Databases
- Hudson County Jersey Journal Obituaries
- Hudson County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Hudson County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Hunterdon County Democrat, Obituaries
- Hunterdon County Obituary Index
- Hunterdon County Obituary Transcriptions
- Hunterdon County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Hunterdon County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Jersey Journal Obituaries Index
- Jewish Community Voice Obituaries
- Madison Historical Society Obituary Indexes
- Medical Register of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, Index of Obituaries published, 1862-1895
- Mercer County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Mercer County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Mercer County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Middlesex County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Middlesex County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Middlesex County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Monmouth County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Monmouth County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Morris County Newspapers Deaths and Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Morris County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Morris County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Morris County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- New Jersey Citizen Newspaper and Obituary Index
- New Jersey GenealogyBuff Obituary Files
- New Jersey Obituaries – Obit City
- New Jersey Obituaries and Death Notices
- New Jersey Obituary and Death Notice Archive
- New Jersey World War I Deaths: Descriptive Cards, Photographs, and Correspondence
- Ocean County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Ocean County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Ocean County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Passaic County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Passaic County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Plainfield Courier News Obituary Index
- Princeton Alumni Weekly Memorial Index, 1894-2011
- Princeton Public Library Local Newspaper Index
- Princeton Theological Seminary Necrological Report presented to the Alumni Association
- Princeton Theological Seminary, Obituaries of deceased Alumni, 1827-1842
- Red Bank-Shrewsbury Patch Obituaries – 2007- (Transcriptions)
- Salem County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Salem County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Somerset County Messenger Gazette Obituary Index 1986 – 2012
- Somerset County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Somerset County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Somerset County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Sussex County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Sussex County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Sussex County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Trenton Chronological Newspaper Indexes
- Trenton Evening Times Death and Obituary Index 1885-1953
- Trenton Obituaries Index
- Two River Times Obituaries 2011-
- Union County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Union County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Union County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Warren County Obituary Index, 1848-1914
- Warren County, New Jersey, Obituary Index, 1848-1914
- Warren County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Warren County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Warren County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Woodbridge Sentinel Obituaries (Transcriptions)
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