One of the main goals for genealogists in searching historic newspapers is to find obituaries. Obituaries are a gold mine of information. They provide death dates and locations, funeral and cemetery information and sometimes 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 death information and obituaries from newspapers have been provided for free online. These searchable indexes or index lists provide the location in old newspapers where the obituary can be found. Sometimes the obituary clipping or transcription is even provided.
Below is a list of links to Utah obituary indexes, an alternative means to newspaper searching to find obituary information. If the newspaper clippings are available, or if the obituaries are transcribed, they will be denoted. Please be aware that if you find a desired obituary in an index, that the holder of the actual obituary (e.g., library or genealogical society) may charge a small fee to send you a copy of the obituary itself.
(Updated February, 2021; recently added links are in BOLD)
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
- Brigham City, Box Elder Journal Obituaries, January 1975 to August 1978 (clippings)
- Box Elder County Obituaries
- Box Elder County, Utah Obituary file, 1931-2000 (clippings)
- Box Elder County, Obituary Collection, 1930-2015
- Box Elder News Obituary Index, 1905-1926
- Cache County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Carbon County Death and Obituary Index
- Daggett County Obituaries
- Daughters of Utah Pioneers Scrapbooks, Newspaper and Obituary Clippings
- 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)
- Hooper, Weber County Obituaries (clippings)
- Iron County Obituaries
- Kaysville, Obituaries, 1917-1990’s (clippings)
- Logan Newspaper obituaries 1974-1977 (clippings)
- Millard County, Obituaries (clippings)
- Millard 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
- Piute County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Salt Lake County Miscellaneous Obituaries (clippings)
- Salt Lake County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Salt Lake Tribune and Deseret News Obituary index 1862- (clippings)
- Salt Lake Tribune, Miscellaneous Obituaries 1948-1951
- Tooele County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Tremonton and Garland Obituaries, 1959-2013 (clippings)
- Utah County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Utah County Obituary Index
- Utah County Obituary Index
- Utah County, Obituary Index, 1874-2010
- Utah Obituary Project, 1940-1985
- Utah, Obituary Index, 1900-2013
- Utah County Obituary Index
- Utah GenealogyBuff Obituary Files
- Utah Obituaries – Obit City
- Utah USGenWeb Obituary Project
- Wasatch County Obituary Indexes
- Wasatch County, Obituary Index, 2003-2012
- Weber County Obituaries
- Weber County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Weber County Standard Examiner Obituary Index
- Western States Deseret News, Deaths and Index to Obituaries, 1970
If you wish to search this state’s historic newspapers for obituaries, click on Utah Online Historical Newspapers Summary
Good Luck and Happy Hunting!
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