
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
North Dakota Obituaries
- Adams County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Adams County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Adams County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Barnes County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Barnes County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Benson County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Benson County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Benson County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Benson County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Billings County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Billings County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Bottineau County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Bowman County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Bowman County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Bowman County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Bowman County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Burke County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Burleigh County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Burleigh County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Cass County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Cass County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Cass County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Cavalier County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Cavalier County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Dickey County, Obituaries (Abstracts)
- Dickey County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Dickey County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Divide County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Divide County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Dunn County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Dunn County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Eddy County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Eddy County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Emmons County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Emmons County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Emmons County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Fargo Forum Obituary Index
- Foster County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Foster County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Foster County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Golden Valley County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Golden Valley County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Grand Forks County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Grand Forks County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Grand Forks County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Grant County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Grant County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Grant County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Grant County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Griggs County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Hankinson News, Marriage and Death Announcement Extractions
- Hettinger County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Hettinger County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Hettinger County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Kidder County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Kidder County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- La Moure County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- La Moure County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Logan County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Logan County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Logan County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- McHenry County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- McHenry County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- McIntosh County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- McIntosh County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- McIntosh County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- McKenzie County Farmer Obituary Index 1997-
- McKenzie County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- McLean County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- McLean County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- McLean County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Mercer County Obituaries
- Mercer County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Mercer County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Morton County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Morton County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Morton County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Mountrail County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Mountrail County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Mountrail County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Nelson County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- North Dakota Biography Index
- North Dakota GenealogyBuff Obituary Files
- North Dakota Obituaries – Obit City
- North Dakota Obituary Archives (Index only is free)
- North Dakota, Obituaries, 1929-2005 (clippings)
- Oliver County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Oliver County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Pembina County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Pembina County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Pierce County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Ramsey County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Ransom County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Renville County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Richland County, Obituaries (Clippings)
- Richland County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Rolette County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Sargent County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Sargent County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Sargent County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Sheridan County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Sioux County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Sioux County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Slope County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Stark County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Stark County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Steele County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Stutsman County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Stutsman County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Towner County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Traill County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Traill County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Traill County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Valley City Newspapers Obituary Index
- Walsh County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Walsh County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Walsh County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Ward County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Ward County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Ward County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Wells County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Williams County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Williams County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
If you wish to search this state’s historic newspapers for obituaries, click on North Dakota Online Historical Newspapers Summary
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