
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
Pennsylvania Obituaries
- Adams County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Adams County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Adams County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Adams County, PA-Roots – Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Allegheny County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Allegheny County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Allegheny County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Allegheny County, PA-Roots – Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Allegheny County/Pittsburgh Area Newspapers Death and Obituary Index
- Allegheny Valley Daily News Obituary Index
- Allentown Morning Call Obituary Indexes 1895-1983
- Altoona Area Obituary Index
- Altoona Mirror Obituary Collection
- Altoona, Pennsylvania, Altoona Mirror Obituary Index, 1929-2010
- Armstrong County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Armstrong County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Armstrong County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Armstrong County, PA-Roots – Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Beaver County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Beaver County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Beaver County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Beaver County, PA-Roots – Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Beaver County, Pennsylvania, Obituary Records, 1920-1969
- Bedford County Obituary Index
- Bedford County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Bedford County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Bedford County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Bedford County, PA-Roots – Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Bellefonte, Democratic Watchman Index to Obituaries
- Berks County, Hamburg, Obituary and Marriage Collection, 1825-1994
- Berks County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Berks County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Berks County, PA-Roots – Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Bethlehem Obituary Index
- Blair County Obituary Index
- Blair County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Blair County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Blair County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Blair County, PA-Roots – Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Bradford County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Bradford County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Bradford County, PA-Roots – Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Bristol Death and Obituary Index
- Bucks County Obituaries and Indexes
- Bucks County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Bucks County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Bucks County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Bucks County, PA-Roots – Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Butler County Obituary Index
- Butler County Obituary Index, 1810-2010
- Butler County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Butler County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Butler County, PA-Roots – Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Cambria County Death and Obituary Index
- Cambria County Library Obituary Indexes
- Cambria County Obituary Index
- Cambria County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Cambria County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Cambria County, PA-Roots – Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Cambria Memory, Obituaries (Clippings)
- Cameron County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Cameron County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Cameron County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Cameron County, PA-Roots – Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Carbon County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Carbon County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Carbon County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Carbon County, PA-Roots – Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Centre County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Centre County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Centre County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Centre County, PA-Roots – Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Centre Daily Times Obituary Index (Clippings)
- Chester County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Chester County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Chester County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Chester County, PA-Roots – Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Clarion County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Clarion County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Clarion County, PA-Roots – Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Clearfield County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Clearfield County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Clearfield County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Clearfield County, PA-Roots – Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Clinton County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Clinton County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Clinton County, PA-Roots – Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Columbia County Death Notice Index
- Columbia County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Columbia County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Columbia County, PA-Roots – Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Crawford County Obituaries (Clippings)
- Crawford County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Crawford County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Crawford County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Crawford County, PA-Roots – Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Cumberland County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Cumberland County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Cumberland County, PA-Roots – Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Dauphin County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Dauphin County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Dauphin County, PA-Roots – Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Delaware County Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Delaware County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Delaware County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Delaware County, PA-Roots – Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Democratic Watchman Index to Obituaries 1855-1888
- Dubois, Newspaper Obituaries 1950-1951
- Elk County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Elk County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Elk County, PA-Roots – Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Erie County Public Library Obituary Index 1822-
- Erie County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Erie County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Erie County, PA-Roots – Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Fayette County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Fayette County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Fayette County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Fayette County, Obituary Index
- Fayette County, PA-Roots – Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Forest County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Forest County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Forest County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Forest County, PA-Roots – Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Franklin County Death and Obituary Index
- Franklin County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Franklin County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Franklin County, PA-Roots – Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Fulton County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Fulton County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Fulton County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Fulton County, PA-Roots – Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Gettysburg Death Notices 1802-1834
- Greene County Deaths and Obituaries
- Greene County Obituary Index 1822-1958, 1980-1981
- Greene County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Greene County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Greene County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Greene County, PA-Roots – Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Harrisburg Newspaper Index – Deaths
- Huntingdon County Obituary Index
- Huntingdon County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Huntingdon County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Huntingdon County, PA-Roots – Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Indiana County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Indiana County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Indiana County, PA-Roots – Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Jefferson County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Jefferson County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Jefferson County, PA-Roots – Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Jefferson County/Brockway Obituary and Record Index
- Juniata County, Obituaries (Abstracts)
- Juniata County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Juniata County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Juniata County, PA-Roots – Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Lackawanna County Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Lackawanna County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Lackawanna County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Lackawanna County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Lackawanna County, Obituaries from the Scranton Republican, 1916-1935
- Lackawanna County, PA-Roots – Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Lancaster County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Lancaster County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Lancaster County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Lancaster County, PA-Roots – Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society Obituary Index
- Latrobe Bulletin Death and Obituary Index
- Lawrence County Obituaries
- Lawrence County Obituary Database
- Lawrence County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Lawrence County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Lawrence County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Lawrence County, PA-Roots – Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Lawrence County, Pennsylvania Obituary Index, 1850-2010
- Lebanon County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Lebanon County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Lebanon County, PA-Roots – Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Lehigh County Morning Call Obituary Index
- Lehigh County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Lehigh County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Lehigh County, PA-Roots – Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Lititz Death and Obituary Index
- Luzerne County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Luzerne County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Luzerne County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Luzerne County, PA-Roots – Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Lycoming County – Newspaper Index
- Lycoming County Obituaries
- Lycoming County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Lycoming County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Lycoming County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Lycoming County, PA-Roots – Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Marshall College and of Franklin and Marshall College, Obituary record of the lives of deceased Alumni
- McDonald Newspaper Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- McKean County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- McKean County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- McKean County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- McKean County, PA-Roots – Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Mercer County Miscellaneous Obituaries
- Mercer County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Mercer County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Mercer County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Mercer County, PA-Roots – Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Mifflin County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Mifflin County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Mifflin County, PA-Roots – Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Mon Valley Obituaries and Index
- Monroe County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Monroe County, PA-Roots – Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Montgomery County Historical Society Obituary Indexes
- Montgomery County Obituaries
- Montgomery County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Montgomery County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Montgomery County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Montgomery County, PA-Roots – Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Montour County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Montour County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Montour County, PA-Roots – Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- New Castle Public Library Marriage & Obituary Database
- Northampton County Bangor Daily News Obituary Index
- Northampton County Bethlehem Globe-Times Obituaries
- Northampton County Easton Area Public Library Obituary Index
- Northampton County Obituaries from the Easton Express
- Northampton County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Northampton County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Northampton County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Northampton County, PA-Roots – Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Northumberland County Obituary Index
- Northumberland County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Northumberland County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Northumberland County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Northumberland County, PA-Roots – Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Obituaries from Venango & Butler Counties
- Pennsylvania Gazette Index to Obituary Notices 1728-1791
- Pennsylvania GenealogyBuff Obituary Files
- Pennsylvania Necrology Scrapbook (obituaries)
- Pennsylvania Obituaries – Obit City
- Pennsylvania Obituaries, 1977-2010
- Pennsylvania Obituary and Marriage Collection, 1947-2010
- Pennsylvania, Lehigh County, Emmaus, Obituaries, 1995-1997
- Perry County Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Perry County, Obituaries (Abstracts)
- Perry County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Perry County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Perry County, PA-Roots – Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Philadelphia County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Philadelphia County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Philadelphia County, PA-Roots – Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Philadelphia Jewish Exponent Obituary Index, 1887-2006
- Philadelphia, Poulson’s American Daily Advertiser, Notices of Marriages & Deaths, 1791-1839
- Pike County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Pike County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Pike County, PA-Roots – Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Potter County Early Obituaries
- Potter County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Potter County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Potter County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Potter County, PA-Roots – Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Schuylkill County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Schuylkill County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Schuylkill County, PA-Roots – Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Schuylkill County, Schuylkill Haven, Funeral Home Obituary Cards, 1914-2007
- Snyder County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Snyder County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Snyder County, PA-Roots – Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Somerset County, Obituaries (Clippings)
- Somerset County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Somerset County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Somerset County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Somerset County, PA-Roots – Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Sullivan County Obituaries
- Sullivan County Registry of Obituaries
- Sullivan County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Sullivan County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Sullivan County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Sullivan County, PA-Roots – Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Susquehanna County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Susquehanna County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Susquehanna County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Susquehanna County, PA-Roots – Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Tioga County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Tioga County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Tioga County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Tioga County, PA-Roots – Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Union County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Union County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Union County, PA-Roots – Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Venango County Obituaries
- Venango County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Venango County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Venango County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Venango County, PA-Roots – Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Warren County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Warren County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Warren County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Warren County, PA-Roots – Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Washington County Obituaries
- Washington County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Washington County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Washington County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Washington County, PA-Roots – Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Wayne County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Wayne County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Wayne County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Wayne County, PA-Roots – Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Western Pennsylvania Obituaries and Marriages from Newspaper Clippings
- Westmoreland County – Baltzer Meyer Historical Society Obituary Index
- Westmoreland County, Marriage and Death Notices from weekly Newspapers, 1818-1865
- Westmoreland County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Westmoreland County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Westmoreland County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Westmoreland County, PA-Roots – Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Wyoming County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Wyoming County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Wyoming County, PA-Roots – Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- York County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- York County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- York County, PA-Roots – Obituaries (Transcriptions)
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7 replies on “Free Pennsylvania Obituaries and Obituary Index Links”
The Warren Tribune Chronicle Obit Index, second from the end above, is in Ohio not Pennsylvania.
Oops! Thanks, Denise. Fixed.
The URL to the Erie County Obituary Index has changed to https://erielibrary.org/resources/obituary-services/
Kenneth, Thanks for all of your hard work. I thought you’d want to know that the forth, and final, entry for Cambria County Pennsylvania (Cambria County Obituary Indexes) is no longer an active site.
Thanks. Fixed.
Hi ! I’m trying to access Bethlem index in Pennsylvania but it failed, “Access from your area has been temporarily limited for security reasons.”
I’m living in France
Can I have some help please ? 🙁
The site works from my location in Arizona. It must be something from that site that restricts access maybe only in the U.S. I don’t know how I can help you.