
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 Mexico Obituaries
- Albuquerque Journal Obituaries – 2005-
- Bernalillo County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Bernalillo County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Catron County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Chaves County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Chaves County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Chaves County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Cibola County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Cibola County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Colfax County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Curry County, New Mexico Abstracts of Obituaries, 1912-2005
- Curry County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Curry County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Curry County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- De Baca County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- De Baca County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- De Baca County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Doña Ana County Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Dona Ana County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Dona Ana County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Dona Ana County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Eddy County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Eddy County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Eddy County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Grant County Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Grant County Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Grant County Obituary Index
- Grant County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Grant County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Guadalupe County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Guadalupe County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Harding County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Harding County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Hidalgo County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Lea County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Lincoln County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Lincoln County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Lincoln Independent 1890 – Obituary Index
- Los Alamos County Obituary Index
- Los Alamos County, Obituaries (Index)
- Los Alamos County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Los Alamos County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Luna County Obituary Index 2007-2009
- Luna County, Obituaries (Index)
- Luna County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Luna County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- McKinley County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- McKinley County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Miscellaneous New Mexico Obituary Indexes (by County)
- Mora County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Mora County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Native American Obituaries Index
- New Mexico GenealogyBuff Obituary Files
- New Mexico Military Institute Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- New Mexico Obituaries – Obit City
- New Mexico Obituary and Death Notice Archive (Transcriptions)
- New Mexico USGenWeb Obituary Project
- Otero County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Otero County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Otero County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Palace of the Governors Obituary Index
- Quay County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Quay County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Rio Arriba County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Rio Arriba County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Rio Arriba County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Roosevelt County Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Roosevelt County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Roosevelt County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- San Juan County Newspaper Obituary Records Index
- San Juan County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- San Juan County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- San Miguel County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- San Miguel County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Sandoval County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Sandoval County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Santa Fe County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Santa Fe County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Santa Fe New Mexican Obituaries 2000- (Transcriptions)
- Sierra County Obituary Index
- Sierra County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Socorro County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Socorro County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Socorro County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Taos County Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Taos County Obituary Transcriptions
- Taos County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Taos County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Taos County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Torrance County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Torrance County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Union County Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Union County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Union County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Valencia County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Valencia County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- White Oaks Golden Era, 1884-1886 – Obituary Index
If you wish to search this state’s historic newspapers for obituaries, click on New Mexico Online Historical Newspapers Summary
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One reply on “Free New Mexico Obituaries and Obituary Index Links”
Hi,
A close relative of mine passed away 3 months ago and I am not sure about the status of his estate in probate. In short, I need a “probate registry service” for a standing search. Please advise.
Oli