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 often provide the location in old newspapers where the obituary can be found. Sometimes the obituary clipping is even provided.
So not only can we search old newspapers for these gems, we can get transcriptions and get directed to the location of the obituaries from these indexes.
Here are alternative means to newspaper searching to find obituary information, listed by the link to each state's list of free links:
(Updated February, 2019; Number of databases and new updates are denoted)
- Connecticut Obituaries and Obituary Index Links (26 total, 5 new)
- Maine Obituaries and Obituary Index Links (39 total, 18 new)
- Massachusetts Obituaries and Obituary Index Links (31 total, 4 new)
- New Hampshire Obituaries and Obituary Index Links (24 total, 6 new)
- Rhode Island Obituaries and Obituary Index Links (13 total, 4 new)
- Vermont Obituaries and Obituary Index Links (22 total, 6 new)