
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
Utah Obituaries
- Beaver County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Beaver County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Box Elder County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Box Elder County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Box Elder County, Obituary Collection, 1930-2015
- Box Elder County, Utah Obituary File, 1931-2000 (Clippings)
- Brigham City, Box Elder Journal Obituaries, January 1975 to August 1978 (Clippings)
- Cache County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Cache County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Cache County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Carbon County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Carbon County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Carbon County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Daggett County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Daggett County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Daughters of Utah Pioneers Scrapbooks, Newspaper and Obituary Clippings
- Davis County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Davis County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Delta Obituaries, 1911-2013 (Clippings)
- Deseret News Semi-Weekly Death and Obituary Index 1865-1900
- Deseret News Weekly Death and Obituary Index 1852-1888
- Desert News Obituaries: Aug. 1964 thru Dec. 31 1965 (Clippings)
- Duchesne County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Duchesne County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Emery County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Emery County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Garfield County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Grand County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Hooper, Weber County Obituaries (Clippings)
- Iron County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Juab County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Juab County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Kane County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Kane County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Kane County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Kaysville, Obituaries, 1917-1990’s (Clippings)
- Logan Newspaper Obituaries 1974-1977 (Clippings)
- Millard County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Millard County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Millard County, Obituaries (Clippings)
- Morgan County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Morgan County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Native American Obituaries
- ObitsUtah Obituary Index
- Obituaries from Utah Newspapers, 1850-2005 (Clippings)
- Ogden Standard Examiner, Obituaries, 1947-2011 (Clippings)
- Ogden Standard Examiner, Obituaries, 1988-2000 (Clippings)
- Piute County Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Piute County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Piute County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Rich County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Salt Lake County Miscellaneous Obituaries (Clippings)
- Salt Lake County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Salt Lake County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Salt Lake County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Salt Lake Tribune and Deseret News Obituary Index 1862- (Clippings)
- Salt Lake Tribune, Miscellaneous Obituaries 1948-1951
- San Juan County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- San Juan County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Sanpete County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Sanpete County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Sanpete County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Sevier County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Sevier County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Summit County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Summit County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Tooele County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Tooele County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Tremonton and Garland Obituaries, 1959-2013 (Clippings)
- Uintah County Library, Obituaries Search (Transcriptions)
- Uintah County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Uintah County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Utah County Obituary Index
- Utah County Obituary Index
- Utah County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Utah County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Utah County, Utah, Obituary Index, 1874-2010
- Utah GenealogyBuff Obituary Files
- Utah Obituaries – Obit City
- Utah Obituary Project, 1940-1985
- Utah, Obituary Index, 1900-2013
- Wasatch County Obituary Indexes
- Wasatch County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Wasatch County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Wasatch County, Obituary Index, 2003-2012
- Washington County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Washington County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Wayne County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Wayne County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Weber County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Weber County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Weber County, Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Western States Deseret News, Deaths and Index to Obituaries, 1970
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