
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
Oregon Obituaries
- Baker County Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Baker County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Baker County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Baker County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Bend Bulletin Newspaper Index
- Benton County Obituary Index
- Benton County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Benton County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Benton County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Clackamas County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Clackamas County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Clackamas County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Clackamas Death and Obituary Index
- Clatsop County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Clatsop County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Clatsop County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Columbia County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Columbia County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Columbia County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Coos County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Coos County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Coos County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Crook County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Crook County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Curry County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Curry County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Curry County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Deschutes County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Deschutes County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Deschutes County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Douglas County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Douglas County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Douglas County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- East Oregonian Obituaries, 1994-1998 (Clippings)
- Forest Grove Newspaper Obituary Index
- Genealogical Forum of Oregon Miscellaneous Obituary Clipping Index
- Genealogical Forum of Oregon Obituary Indexes
- Gilliam County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Gilliam County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Gilliam County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Grant County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Grant County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Grant’s Pass Courier Obituary Index
- Grants Pass Daily Courier, Obituaries
- Harney County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Harney County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Harney County, Obituary Index
- Hillsboro Death and Obituary Index
- Hood River County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Hood River County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Hood River County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Jackson County Obituary Indexes
- Jackson County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Jackson County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Jefferson County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Jefferson County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Josephine County Obituary Index
- Josephine County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Josephine County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Josephine County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Klamath County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Klamath County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Lake County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Lake County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Lake Oswego Newspapers Index
- Lane County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Lane County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Lane County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Lincoln County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Lincoln County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Lincoln County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Linn County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Linn County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Linn County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Linn Genealogical Society People Search
- Malheur County, Nyssa, Newspaper Obituaries, 1956-1995 (Clippings)
- Malheur County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Malheur County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Malheur County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Marion County Articles of History from Newspapers, 1850-1914 (Clippings)
- Marion County, Family Records and Obituaries (Clippings)
- Marion County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Marion County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Marion County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Milton-Freewater, Obituary Index
- Morrow County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Morrow County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Morrow County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Multnomah County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Multnomah County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Multnomah County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Northwest Heritage Obituaries with Canby Index
- Oregon GenealogyBuff Obituary Files
- Oregon Index Online, Obituaries Index Cards
- Oregon Obituaries – Obit City
- Oregon Obituary Index
- Oregon Obituary Index
- Polk County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Polk County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Sherman County Death and Obituaries Index (Transcriptions)
- Sherman County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Sherman County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Sherman County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Silverton County Obituaries, 1883-2000 (Clippings)
- Silverton, Funeral cards and Obituaries
- Silverton, Obituary Collection, 1874-1920, 1924, 1959 (Transcriptions)
- Tigard Death and Obituary Index
- Tillamook County Obituary Index
- Tillamook County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Tillamook County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Tillamook County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Umatilla County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Umatilla County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Umatilla County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Union County Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Union County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Union County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Union County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Union County, Obituaries and other Vital Records 1890-1930 (Clippings)
- Upper Coquille Valley Obituary Index
- Wallowa County Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Wallowa County Obituary Index (Transcriptions)
- Wallowa County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Wallowa County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Wallowa County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Wasco County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Wasco County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Wasco County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Washington County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Washington County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Washington County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Wheeler County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Wheeler County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Wheeler County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Yamhill County Obituary Index
- Yamhill County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Yamhill County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Yamhill County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
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