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 Wyoming 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 October 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
Wyoming
- Albany County Obituaries and Death Notices
- Albany County Obituary Index 1958-1968
- Albany County Obituary Indexes
- Campbell County Death and Obituary Index
- Campbell County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Campbell County Obituaries and Death Notices (abstracts)
- Converse County Obituaries
- Crook County Obituaries
- Fremont County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Fremont County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Johnson County Obituaries and Death Notices
- Johnson County Obituary Index
- Laramie County – Cheyenne Society Indexes
- Lincoln County – Obituaries
- Lincoln County Obituaries and Death Notices
- Natrona County Obituaries
- Niobrara County Library Deaths and Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Pinedale Roundup Newspaper Index 1904-1999
- Sheridan County Obituaries
- Sheridan County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Sheridan County Obituary Index 1951 – 1987
- Star Valley Independent Deaths and Obituaries, 1901-2015 (clippings)
- Sublette County, Big Piney Examiner Obituaries (clippings)
- Sweetwater County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Sweetwater County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Uinta County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Wheatland Cemetery Obituaries (clippings)
- Wheatland/Platte County Obituaries (clippings)
- Wyoming GenealogyBuff Obituary Files
- Wyoming Obituaries – Obit City
- Wyoming USGenWeb Obituary Project
If you wish to search this state’s historic newspapers for obituaries, click on Wyoming Online Historical Newspapers Summary
Good Luck and Happy Hunting!
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