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Chronicling America Updates - August, 2019

8/31/2019

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Chronicling America, the newspaper collection available for online research of United States historic newspapers, regularly updates their collection.

Here are the updated titles for August, 2019. Some are new titles and some are added to an existing title's pages in the database. There are 35 in total from 15 different states, including the District of Columbia. (Please note that some newspapers may be listed multiple times because they were updated more than once by the Library of Congress during the month).


Arizona
  • ​Updated content for El sol. (Phoenix, Ariz.)
  • Updated content for The Daily morning oasis. (Nogales, Ariz.)

Arkansas
  • Updated content for The Mena weekly star. (Mena, Ark.)
  • Updated content for The Nevada news. (Prescott, Ark.)
  • Updated content for The Prescott daily news. (Prescott, Ark.)
  • Updated content for The Russellville Democrat. (Russellville, Ark.)
  • Updated content for The Sentinel=record. (Hot Springs, Ark.)
  • Updated content for The Spectator. (Ozark, Ark.)
  • Updated content for The Spectator. (Ozark, Franklin County, Ark.)

California
  • Updated content for El clamor público. (Los Angeles, Calif.)
  • Updated content for Hispano América. (San Francisco, Calif.)
  • Updated content for La crónica. (Los Angeles, Calif.)
  • Updated content for La crónica. (San Francisco, Calif.)
  • Updated content for La prensa. (Los Angeles, Calif.)
  • Updated content for L'Italia. (San Francisco, Calif.)

Connecticut
  • Updated content for New Britain herald. (New Britain, Conn.)

Delaware
  • Updated content for Evening journal. (Wilmington, Del.)
  • Updated content for Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial. (Wilmington, Del.)

District of Columbia
  • Updated content for Alexandria gazette. (Alexandria, D.C.)

Georgia
  • Updated content for The Brunswick news. (Brunswick, Ga.)

Indiana
  • Updated content for The Indianapolis times. (Indianapolis [Ind.])

Minnesota
  • Updated content for Morris tribune. (Morris, Minn.)
  • Updated content for The Catholic bulletin. (St. Paul, Minn.)

Mississippi
  • Updated content for Afro-American courier. (Yazoo City, Miss.)
  • Updated content for Jackson advocate. (Jackson, Miss.)
  • Updated content for The Century voice. (Yazoo City, Miss.)

New Jersey
  • Updated content for Perth Amboy evening news. (Perth Amboy, N.J.)

North Dakota
  • Updated content for The Bismarck tribune. (Bismarck, N.D.)

Ohio
  • Updated content for America. (Cleveland, Ohio)
  • Updated content for Svět = World. (Cleveland, Ohio)

Virginia
  • Updated content for Richmond planet. (Richmond, Va.)
  • Updated content for Winchester gazette. (Winchester, Va.)

West Virginia
  • Updated content for West Virginia argus. (Kingwood, W. Va.)
  • Updated content for Wheeling register. (Wheeling, W. Va.)
  • Updated content for Wheeling Sunday register. (Wheeling, W. Va.)

Good Luck and Happy Hunting!

For more links for these states and others - please see the Newspaper Links page on this website.
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FamilySearch New and Updated Collections - August 1-31, 2019

8/31/2019

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FamilySearch continues to add or update their records collections at a fast pace for us to search.
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For the period of August 1-31, 2019,  the added/updated collections are:​​​​​​​​

  • Alabama Deaths, 1908-1974
  • Alabama, Confederate Pension Applications, ca. 1880-1930's
  • Alabama, County Birth Registers, 1881-1930
  • Alabama, County Birth Registers, 1881-1930
  • Alabama, World War II Draft Registration Cards,1940-1945
  • Alaska, World War II Draft Registration Cards,1940-1945
  • Arizona, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1945
  • Arkansas Confederate Pensions, 1901-1929
  • Arkansas Confederate Soldier Home,1890-1963
  • Australia, Queensland, Toowoomba, Prison Records Index, 1864-1906
  • Australia, Victoria, Inward Passenger Lists, 1839-1923
  • Austria, Vienna Population Cards, 1850-1896
  • Austria, Vienna, Jewish Registers of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1784-1911
  • Belgium, Antwerp, Civil Registration, 1588-1913
  • Brazil, Bahia, Passenger Lists, 1855-1964
  • Brazil, Paraná, Civil Registration, 1852-1996
  • Brazil, Pernambuco, Civil Registration, 1804-2016
  • Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, Civil Registration, 1829-2012
  • Brazil, São Paulo, Civil Registration, 1925-1995
  • California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994
  • California, Los Angeles, Evergreen Memorial Park Cemetery, Deceased Card File Index, 1877-1989
  • Canada, Prairie Provinces Census, 1926
  • Colombia, Catholic Church Records, 1576-2018
  • Colorado, World War II Draft Registration Cards,1940-1945
  • Connecticut, World War II Draft Registration Cards,1940-1945
  • Croatia, Delnice Deanery Catholic Church Books, 1725-1926
  • Delaware, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1945
  • District of Columbia, World War II Draft Registration Cards,1940-1945
  • El Salvador Civil Registration, 1704-2001
  • England and Wales Census, 1911
  • England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975
  • England Deaths and Burials, 1538-1991
  • England Marriages, 1538–1973
  • England, Cambridge Parish Registers, 1538-1983
  • England, Hampshire Parish Registers, 1538-1980
  • England, Herefordshire Bishop's Transcripts, 1583-1898
  • England, Huntingdonshire Parish Registers
  • England, Warwickshire, Parish Registers, 1535-1963
  • Florida Deaths, 1877-1939
  • Florida, World War II Draft Registration Cards,1940-1945
  • France, Finistère, Quimper et Léon Diocese, Catholic Parish Records, 1772-1894
  • France, Haute-Vienne, Census, 1836
  • French Polynesia, Civil Registration, 1780-1999
  • Georgia Deaths, 1928-1942
  • Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898
  • Germany, Baden, Church Book Duplicates, 1804-1877
  • Germany, Prussia, Westphalia, Minden, Miscellaneous Collections from the Municipal Archives, 1574-1912
  • Hawaii, Births and Baptisms, 1843-1909
  • Hawaii, World War II Draft Registration Cards,1940-1945
  • Honduras, Catholic Church Records, 1633-1978
  • Hungary Civil Registration, 1895-1980
  • Idaho, World War II Draft Registration Cards,1940-1945
  • Illinois, County Naturalization Records, 1800-1998
  • Iowa, Monroe County, Card Index of Births, Deaths & Marriages from Newspaper Clippings, 1898-2015
  • Iowa, Old Age Tax Assistance Records, 1934-1958
  • Iowa, Records of Persons Subject to Military Duty, 1862-1910
  • Italy, Caserta, Civil Registration (State Archive), 1809-1866
  • Kansas State Census, 1915
  • Kansas State Census, 1925
  • Louisiana, Orleans Parish, Birth Records, 1819-1906
  • Maine, Kennebec County, Togus National Cemetery Records
  • Maryland, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1945
  • Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001
  • Mexico, Sinaloa, Civil Registration, 1861-1929
  • Minnesota, County Marriages, 1860-1949
  • Minnesota, World War II Draft Registration Cards,1940-1947
  • Missouri State and Territorial Census Records, 1732-1933
  • Missouri, Jackson County Voter Registration Records, 1928-1956
  • Missouri, World War II Draft Registration Cards,1940-1945
  • Nebraska, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1945
  • Netherlands, Noord-Holland, Civil Registration, 1811-1950
  • Nevada, World War II Draft Registration Cards,1940-1945
  • New Jersey Naturalization Records, 1796-1991
  • New Jersey, Death Index, 1901-1903
  • New Jersey, Essex County, Superintendent of Soldiers' Burials, 1776-1979
  • New Mexico, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1945
  • New York, County Marriages, 1847-1848; 1908-1936
  • New York, County Naturalization Records, 1791-1980
  • New York, Southern District, U.S District Court Naturalization Records, 1824-1946
  • New York, State Death Index, 1880-1956
  • New York, Western District, Naturalization Index, 1907-1966
  • North Carolina, Church Records, 1700-1970
  • North Carolina, Wake County, Death Records, 1900-1909
  • Norway, Probate Index Cards, 1640-1903
  • Nova Scotia Births, 1864-1877
  • Nova Scotia Deaths, 1864-1877
  • Nova Scotia Marriages, 1864-1918
  • Ohio Tax Records, 1800-1850
  • Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2013
  • Ohio, Summit County, Coroner Inquests, Hospital and Cemetery Records, 1882-1949
  • Ohio, WWI Index and Return Cards, 1916-1920
  • Oklahoma, World War II Draft Registration Cards,1940-1945
  • Oregon, Oregon State Archives, Marriage Records, 1906-1968
  • Pennsylvania, Allegheny, Pittsburgh, Naturalization Card File Index, 1906-1990
  • Pennsylvania, Eastern District Petitions for Naturalization, 1795-1931
  • Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Allegheny Cemetery Records, 1845 - 1960
  • Peru, Cemetery Records, 1912-2013
  • Rhode Island Naturalization Records 1907-1991
  • South Africa, Cape Province, Civil Deaths, 1895-1972
  • South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Records (Stellenbosch Archive), 1690-2011
  • South Africa, Natal, Passenger Lists, 1860-1911
  • South Africa, Netherdutch Reformed Church Registers (Pretoria Archive), 1838-1991
  • South Africa, Transvaal, Civil Death, 1869-1954
  • South Carolina, Charleston County, Charleston, Birth Registers, 1901-1926
  • South Carolina, Colleton County Marriage Licenses, 1911-1951
  • South Dakota, Grave Registration Records, 1940-1941
  • Sweden, Household Examination Books, 1880-1930
  • Switzerland, Bern, Civil Registration, 1792-1876
  • Texas, Gonzales County, Birth Records, 1878-1945
  • Ukraine, Zaporizhia Poll Tax Census (Revision Lists), 1811-1858
  • United States Census (Slave Schedule), 1860
  • United States Census, 1940
  • United States Deceased Physician File (AMA), 1864-1968
  • United States, Freedmen's Bureau Hospital and Medical Records, 1865-1872
  • United States, GenealogyBank Historical Newspaper Obituaries, 1815-2011
  • United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014
  • United States, Native American Birth and Death Records, 1885-1940
  • United States, Native American, Census Rolls, 1885-1940
  • United States, Veterans Administration Master Index, 1917-1940
  • Utah, Cemetery Abstracts
  • Utah, World War II Draft Registration Cards,1940-1947
  • Virgin Islands, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1945
  • Virginia, Slave Birth Index, 1853-1866
  • Virginia, World War II Draft Registration Cards,1940-1945
  • West Virginia, World War II Draft Registration Cards,1940-1945
  • Wisconsin, Milwaukee Petitions for Naturalization, 1848-1991
  • Wyoming, World War II Draft Registration Cards,1940-1945

​For a complete list of all added/updated collections, go to https://familysearch.org/search/collection/list
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I hope that some of these are what you have been waiting for!
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1,365 Free Obituary and Obituary Index Links for the Mid-West States

8/30/2019

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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 often provide the location in old newspapers where the obituary can be found. Sometimes the obituary clipping is even provided.
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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. 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 August, 2019; Number of databases and new updates are denoted)

  • Illinois Obituaries and Obituary Index Links (147 total, 39 new)
  • Indiana Obituaries and Obituary Index Links (184 total, 57 new)
  • Iowa Obituaries and Obituary Index Links (104 total, 36 new)
  • Kansas Obituaries and Obituary Index Links (167 total, 115 new)
  • Michigan Obituaries and Obituary Index Links (137 total, 47 new)
  • Minnesota Obituaries and Obituary Index Links (71 total, 27 new)
  • Missouri Obituaries and Obituary Index Links (98 total, 35 new)
  • Nebraska Obituaries and Obituary Index Links (63 total, 16 new)
  • North Dakota Obituaries and Obituary Index Links (29 total, 10 new)
  • Ohio Obituaries and Obituary Index Links (144 total, 49 new)
  • Oklahoma Obituaries and Obituary Index Links (81 total, 27 new)
  • South Dakota Obituaries and Obituary Index Links (46 total, 17 new)
  • Wisconsin Obituaries and Obituary Index Links (93 total, 29 new)
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Free Ohio Obituaries and Obituary Index Links

8/30/2019

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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 Ohio 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 August, 2019; recently added links are in BOLD)
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General U.S.
  • Currentobituary.com index, 2001-2014
  • United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014
  • United States, Obituaries, American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1899-2012

Ohio
  • Adams County, newspaper excerpts 1831-1857
  • Akron Beacon Journal Obituary Index 
  • Akron Beacon Journal, Obituaries, weddings, anniversaries 1994
  • Allen County Obituaries (transcriptions)
  • Alliance Obituary Index 
  • Ashland County Obituary Index 
  • Ashtabula County Obituaries 1831-1869 (transcriptions)
  • Ashtabula County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
  • Athens County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
  • Auglaize County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
  • Barberton Public Library Obituary Indexes 
  • Belmont County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
  • Brown County Death and Obituary Index 
  • Brown County, Obituaries, bible and cemetery records
  • Butler County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
  • Butler County Obituary Index (transcriptions) 
  • Carroll County Obituary Index 
  • Carroll County, Obituaries, 1863-1922
  • Champaign County Obituaries (transcriptions) 
  • Cincinnati Obituary Index 
  • Cincinnati Volksfreund, Index of death notices and marriage notices 1850-1908
  • Clark County Obituaries 
  • Clark County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
  • Clermont County Death and Obituary Index 
  • Cleveland Jewish Obituary Indexes 
  • Cleveland News Index 
  • Clinton County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
  • Clinton County, Newspapers, death and obituary abstracts, 1838 to 1867
  • Clinton County, Obituaries, 1867-1875 and selected genealogical notes
  • Columbiana County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
  • Columbiana County, Ohio, Salem News Obituary Index, 1957-2011
  • Columbus News and Obituary Index  
  • Coshocton County, Index to newspaper obituaries, 1826-1908
  • Coshocton Ohio Obituary Indexes 
  • Crawford County Death and Obituary Index, 1860-2004 (clippings) 
  • Crawford County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
  • Cuyahoga County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
  • Cuyahoga County Obituary Indexes 
  • Dayton Obituary Index 
  • Dayton, Ohio, Obituary Index, 1850-2013
  • Dayton, Gedenk-Blatter, Obituaries 1894-1904
  • Defiance County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
  • Delaware County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
  • Englewood, The Vindicator, Obituary Index
  • Erie County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
  • Fayette County Death and Obituary Index 
  • Fayette County, Ohio, Record Herald Obituary Index, 1911-2005
  • Fulton County Obituary Indexes 
  • Gallia County Death and Obituary Index  (transcriptions) 
  • Gallia County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
  • Geauga County Obituaries (transcriptions) 
  • Geauga County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
  • Guernsey County Obituaries (transcriptions) 
  • Hamilton County Newspaper Index 
  • Hamilton County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
  • Hamilton County, Miscellaneous Obituary abstracts and extracts : ca. 19th century
  • Hancock County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
  • Hancock County Obituary Index 
  • Hancock County, Ohio, Obituary Index, 1808-2010
  • Hardin County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
  • Harris Elmore Public Library Obituaries (clippings)
  • Harrison County Obituaries, 1946-1958 : clippings from the Cadiz Republican & the Freeport Press
  • Henry County Genealogical Society Death and Obituary Indexes 
  • Hicksville area Obituaries (clippings)
  • Hocking County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
  • Hubbard Public Library Obituary Index 
  • Huron County - Willard Area Death and Obituary Index 
  • Jefferson County Obituaries 
  • Kenton Newspaper Death & Marriage Notices (clippings)
  • Knox County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
  • Lake County Death and Obituary Index 
  • Lake County Obituary Indexes 
  • Lawrence County Obituary Indexes (transcriptions) 
  • Logan County Obituaries 
  • Logan County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
  • Louisville Public Library Death and Obituary Index 
  • Lucas County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
  •  Mahoning County Obituary Index - 1843 to 1870 
  • Marion County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions) 
  • Medina County Obituary Index 
  • Mercer County Obituaries 
  • Mercer County Obituaries (transcriptions) 
  • Mercer County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
  • Miami County Obituaries (transcriptions)
  • Miami County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
  • Miami County Obituary Index 
  • Miami County Obituary Indexes (transcriptions) 
  • Monroe Commerical Obituary Index 
  • Monroe County Death and Obituary Index 
  • Montgomery County Obituaries (transcriptions) 
  • Montgomery County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
  • Morgan County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
  • Muskingum County Obituaries (transcriptions) 
  • Muskingum County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
  • Muskingum County Obituary Index 
  • Newcomerstown News, Obituaries 1990-1999 (clippings)
  • Northwestern Ohio Pioneers, Obituaries (clippings)
  • Ohio Death and Obituary Index 
  • Ohio Genealogical  Society - Ohio Obituary Index 
  • Ohio Genealogical Society, Obituary collection, 1970-2014
  • ​Ohio Obituaries - Obit City​​ 
  • Ohio USGenWeb Obituary Project  
  • Ohio, MOLO Obituary Index, 1811-2012
  • Perry County Death and Obituary Index (transcriptions) 
  • Pomeroy, Meigs County, Tribune Telegraph newspaper, Obituaries 1920-1921 (transcriptions)
  • Portsmouth Public Library Newspaper Index 
  • Preble County Births, Marriages, and Deaths 
  • Putnam County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
  • Richland County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
  • Richland County Obituaries and Index (transcriptions)
  • Richland County Obituary Index and Obituaries 
  • Richland County Obituary Index (transcriptions) 
  • Ross County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
  • Ross County Obituary Index 
  • Salem News Death and Obituary index 
  • Stark County Obituary Indexes 
  • Stark County Obituary Index 
  • Stow-Munroe Falls Obituary Index 
  • Summit County Obituaries 
  • The Cleveland Jewish News Obituary Index, 1964-2007
  • The Vindicator, Obituaries, 1871-1977 (clippings)
  • Toledo Area, Obituary index, 1837-1969
  • Toledo Blade Obituary Index 
  • Tri-state obituaries, (Indiana-Ohio-Michigan), 1970-1974 (transcriptions)
  • Trumbull County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
  • Tuscarawas County Obituary Index  
  • Union County Obituary Index 
  • Van Wert County Obituaries (transcriptions) 
  • Van Wert County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
  • Versailles Leader, Obituaries 1886-1912 (transcriptions)
  • Warren County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
  • Warren County Obituary Index 
  • Warren Tribune Chronicle Obituary Index 
  • Washington County Newspaper Obituaries, 1884-2013 (clippings) 
  • Washington County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
  • Washington County, Obituaries, 1884-2013 (clippings)
  • Wayne County Obituary Indexes 
  • Williams County Obituaries (transcriptions) 
  • Williams County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
  • Williams County Obituary Index  
  • Wood County Obituary Index 
  • Wood County Sentinel Death and Obituary Index 
  • Worthington News Index 
  • Youngstown Vindicator Obituary Index 

If you wish to search this state's historic newspapers for obituaries, click on Ohio Online Historical Newspapers Summary​
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Free Indiana Obituaries and Obituary Index Links

8/29/2019

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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 Indiana 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 August, 2019; recently added links are in BOLD)
​
General U.S.
  • Currentobituary.com index, 2001-2014
  • United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014
  • United States, Obituaries, American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1899-2012

Indiana
  • Adams County Obituaries (transcriptions) 
  • Adams County, Indiana, and surrounding area, Obituaries 1962-1963-1964
  • Allen County Area Obituary Index  
  • Allen County Obituary Records (transcriptions)
  • Allen County, Indiana, Obituary Index, 1841-2010
  • Bartholomew County Obituaries 
  • Bartholomew County Obituaries (transcriptions)
  • Benton County, Funeral Cards and Obituaries (clippings)
  • Berne Public Library Obituary Index 
  • Blackford County Obituaries 
  • Boone County Indexes 
  • Boone County Obituary Indexes 
  • Boone County, Indiana Obituary Extracts, 1921-1930
  • Bremen County Obituaries (clippings) 
  • Brownsburg Public Library Death and Obituary Index 
  • Carroll County Obituaries 
  • Cass County Obituaries (transcriptions)
  • Clark County Obituaries (transcriptions)
  • Clark County Obituary Index 
  • Clay County Miscellaneous Obituaries 
  • Clinton County Obituaries 
  • Clinton County Obituary Index 
  • Crawford County Obituaries (transcriptions)
  • Crown Point Obituary Index 
  • Daviess County Obituaries 
  • Daviess County, Washington Times Herald obituaries, 1984-2012 (clippings)
  • Dearborn County Death and Obituary Index 
  • Dearborn County Newspaper Obituary Index 
  • Dearborn County, Obituaries Extracts, 1820-1850
  • Decatur County Obituaries 
  • Decatur Daily Democrat Obituary Index (transcriptions) 
  • DeKalb County Death and Obituary Index (clippings) 
  • DeKalb County Obituaries (transcriptions)
  • Delaware County Death and Obituary Indexes (transcriptions) 
  • Delaware County Obituary Index 
  • Dubois County Obituaries (transcriptions) 
  • Dubois County Obituaries (transcriptions)
  • Edinburgh Wright-Hageman Public Library Death and Obituary Index (transcriptions) 
  • Elkhart County Death and Obituary Index (transcriptions) 
  • Elkhart County Obituaries (transcriptions) 
  • Elkhart County Obituaries (transcriptions)
  • Elkhart Truth Death and Obituary Index 
  • Evansville Area and Southwestern Indiana Death and Obituary Index 
  • Evansville Newspaper Index 
  • Fayette County Library Death and Obituary Index 
  • Floyd County Death and Obituary Newspaper Index (transcriptions) 
  • Floyd County Obituaries 
  • Floyd County Obituaries (transcriptions)
  • Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette Index to Obituaries 1900-1918
  • Fort Wayne Newspapers, Obituary records 1841-1900
  • Fort Wayne News-Sentinel and the Journal-Gazette, Obituary records January 1, 1919 - February 23, 1938
  • Fountain County Obituary Index 
  • Franklin County Death and Obituary Index (transcriptions) 
  • Fulton County Death and Obituary Index (transcriptions) 
  • Fulton County Obituary Index 
  • Fulton County Obituary Indexes 
  • Garrett Public Library Death and Obituary Index 
  • Gibson County Obituaries 
  • Goodland Herald newspaper, Obituary Index 1904-1935, missing years 1906, 1908, 1909 & 1931
  • Goodland Herald Obituary Index 
  • Grant County Death and Obituary Index 
  • Grant County Obituaries 
  • Greensburg-Decatur County Public Library Obituary Index 
  • Hamilton County Newspaper Death and Obituary Index 
  • Hammond Times Obituary Index  
  • Harrison County Obituaries and Obituary Index (transcriptions)
  • Harrison County, Obituaries, birth and marriage announcements, 1845-2005 (transcriptions)
  • Hendricks County Death and Obituary Index 
  • Hendricks County Obituaries (transcriptions) 
  • Henry County Obituary Indexes 
  • Henry County, Indiana, Newspaper and Obituary Index, 1800-1993
  • Henry County/Banner Obituary Index 
  • Howard County Death and Obituary Index 
  • Huntington County Obituaries (transcriptions)
  • Indiana Legacy Death and Obituary Index  
  • Indiana USGenWeb Obituary Project  
  • Indiana Obituaries - Obit City​​ 
  • Jackson County Obituaries 
  • Jackson County Obituaries (transcriptions)
  • Jamestown, Boone County, Abstracted Obits and Biographies, 1898-1902
  • Jay County Obituaries 
  • Jefferson County Obituary Index 
  • Jennings County Obituaries 
  • Jennings County Obituary Collection (transcriptions)
  • Johnson County Death and Obituary Indexes  (transcriptions) 
  • Johnson County Obituaries 
  • Knox County Obituary Indexes 
  • Kokomo Miscellaneous Obituaries Index 
  • Kokomo Newspapers Death and Obituary Index 2003-
  • Kokomo Tribune Obituary Index 
  • Kosciusko County Death and Obituary Indexes 
  • Lafayette Journal and Courier Newspaper Index 
  • Lafayette Leader Death and Obituary Index 
  • LaGrange County Obituaries 
  • Lake County Death and Obituary Indexes (transcriptions) 
  • Lake County Obituaries and Death Notices
  • Lake County Obituary Index 
  • LaPorte County Obituary Indexes (transcriptions) 
  • Lawrence County Obituaries (transcriptions)
  • Lawrence County Obituary Database 
  • Lawrenceburg Public Library Death and Obituary Index 
  • Lebanon Reporter Obituary Index 
  • Logansport Obituary Index 
  • Logansport Weekly Journal, Abstracts 1849-1870
  • Madison County Obituaries 
  • Madison County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
  • Madison County Obituary Indexes 
  • Marion County Obituaries (transcriptions)
  • Marshall County Obituaries (transcriptions)
  • Martin County Obituaries 
  • Miami County Death and Obituary Indexes 
  • Michigan City Obituary Index  
  • Michigan City, Indiana, Obituary Index, 1887-2011
  • Monroe County Obituaries 
  • Monroe County Obituaries (transcriptions)
  • Monroe County Obituary Index 
  • Monroe County Obituary Index 
  • Monroe County, Indiana, Obituary Index, 1899-2011
  • Montgomery County Obituaries (transcriptions) 
  • Montgomery County Obituaries (transcriptions)
  • Montgomery County, Indiana, Obituary Index, 1877-2010
  • Mooresville Public Library Death and Obituary Index 
  • Morgan County Obituaries (transcriptions)
  • Morgan County Public Library Death and Obituary Index  
  • Nappanee Public Library Obituary Index 
  • Newton County Obituary Indexes 
  • Noble County Genealogical Society Death and Obituary Index 
  • Noble County Obituaries 
  • ​Noble County Obituary Index (transcriptions) 
  • Noble County, Albion New Era, Obituaries  : obituaries and news items from other sources in Noble County, 
  • North Madison Public Library/Elwood Death and Obituary Index 
  • North Webster Death and Obituary Index 
  • Ohio County Obituary Index 
  • Orange County Obituaries (transcriptions) 
  • Parke County Death and Obituary Index (transcriptions) 
  • Parke County Obituaries (transcriptions)
  • Parke County Obituaries and Obituary Indexes 
  • Perry County Death and Obituary Index (transcriptions) 
  • Peru Death and Obituary Index 
  • Plymouth, Marshall County Obituary Index 
  • Porter County Death and Obituary Index 
  • Porter County Death and Obituary Index (transcriptions) 
  • Porter County Obituary Indexes 
  • Porter County, Indiana, Vidette-Messenger and Vidette-Times Obituary Index, 1927-2011
  • Posey County Obituaries 
  • Putnam County Death and Obituary Index (transcriptions) 
  • Putnam County Deaths and Obituaries (clippings) 
  • Putnam County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
  • Randolph County Obituaries 
  • Randolph County Obituaries (transcriptions) 
  • Ripley County, Obituaries
  • Rush County Obituaries (transcriptions)
  • Rush County Obituary Index 
  • Scott County Obituary Index to The Chronicle  
  • Shelby County Obituaries (transcriptions) 
  • South Whitley area, Obituaries 1885-1930
  • St. Joseph County Obituaries (transcriptions) 
  • St. Joseph County Obituaries (transcriptions)
  • St. Joseph County Obituary Index 
  • Starke County Obituary Indexes 
  • Steuben County Death and Obituary Index (transcriptions) 
  • Sullivan County Death and Obituary Index 
  • Tippecanoe County Obituary Index 
  • Tri-state Obituaries : (Indiana-Ohio-Michigan), 1970-1974
  • Union County Obituary Index 
  • Vanderburgh County Obituaries (transcriptions)
  • Vejay Obituary Indexes 
  • Vermillion County Obituaries (transcriptions) 
  • Vigo County Obituaries (transcriptions) 
  • Vigo County Obituaries (transcriptions)
  • Vigo County Obituary Index 
  • Wabash Plaindealer Death and Obituary Index 
  • Wabash Valley, Indiana, Obituary Index, 1900-2013
  • Wakarusa Public Library Obituary Index (transcriptions) 
  • Warrick County Death Notices and Obituary Indexes (transcriptions) 
  • Warsaw Times-Union, and Milford The Paper, 1985 Obituary abstracts
  • Warsaw, Index to Obituaries 
  • Washington County Obituaries (transcriptions)
  • Wayne County Obituaries (transcriptions)
  • Western Christian Advocate Obituaries and Marriages 1848-
  • Whitley County Obituaries Index 858-1910
  • Whitley County Obituaries (transcriptions) 
  • Whitley County Peabody Public Library Death and Obituary Index 

If you wish to search this state's historic newspapers for obituaries, click on Indiana Online Historical Newspapers Summary
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Provincial Archives of Saskatchewan to Add WW2 Era Historical Newspapers to Online Collection

8/29/2019

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The Provincial Archives of Saskatchewan has just announced that they will be adding World War 2 era historical newspapers to the Saskatchewan Historic Newspapers Online website.

This is part of the Archives' goal of having 160 community newspapers digitized and available by the end of 2020.

Read the entire press release HERE.

You can find links to the current Archives' site as well as other freely searchable historical newspapers from the province at Saskatchewan Online Historical Newspapers Summary.
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Georgia To Add 119 Historical Newspaper Titles in Fall 2019 Update

8/29/2019

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The Digital Library of Georgia just announced that 119 titles will be added during the fall of 2019 to the Georgia Historic Newspapers website.  The complete announcement can be found HERE.

The announcement also discusses where the funding for each of the added titles came from. 

Here is a list of the titles:

R.J. Taylor, Jr. Foundation-funded newspaper titles:
  • Air-Line Eagle (Gainesville), 1861-1869
  • American Democrat (Macon), 1843-1844
  • American Union (Macon), 1869-1872
  • Army and Navy Herald (Macon), 1865
  • Atlanta Constitution, 1872-1886
  • Atlanta Daily Register, 1864
  • Atlanta Independent, 1872
  • Augusta Weekly Press, 1869
  • Bainbridge Argus, 1870
  • Bainbridge Weekly Sun, 1872-1874
  • Banner of the South and the Planters Journal (Augusta), 1870-1872
  • Banner of the South (Augusta), 1868-1870
  • Bee (Savannah), 1865
  • Brunswick Advocate (Brunswick), 1837-1839
  • Burkes’ Weekly for Boys and Girls (Macon), 1867-1870
  • Business Circular (Savannah), 1867
  • Calhoun Weekly Times, 1870-1874
  • Carroll County Times (Carrollton), 1872-1873, 1876-1877
  • Cartersville Express, 1867
  • Cartersville Express, 1868-1873
  • Chattooga Advertiser (Summerville), 1871-1872
  • Cherokee Georgian (Dalton), 1867
  • Christian Index & South-Western Baptist (Atlanta), 1867-1871
  • Columbus Daily Times, 1861-1864
  • Columbus Times, 1864-1865
  • Commonwealth (Atlanta), 1861-1862
  • Cuthbert Weekly Appeal (Cuthbert), 1869-1873
  • Daily Bulletin (LaGrange), 1864
  • Daily Commonwealth (Atlanta), 1863
  • Daily Constitutionalist (Augusta), 1870-1872
  • Daily Evening Mirror (Macon), 1866
  • Daily Intelligencer (Atlanta), 1861
  • Daily Loyal Georgian (Augusta), 1867
  • Daily New Era (Atlanta), 1866-1871
  • Daily Press (Augusta), 1866-1867
  • Daily Register (Augusta), 1864
  • Daily Southern Herald (Griffin), 1866
  • Daily Sun (Columbus), 1861-1865
  • Dawson Journal, 1866-1868
  • Dawson Weekly Journal, 1871-1877
  • Democrat (Columbus), 1830-1832
  • Elberton Gazette, 1866-1869
  • Evening Journal (Savannah), 1872
  • Examiner (Covington), 1866
  • Fairburn Gazette, 1871
  • Fairburn Sentinel, 1871-1872
  • Fairburn Waif, 1872
  • Freeman’s Standard (Savannah), 1868
  • Georgia Collegian (Athens), 1870-1872
  • Georgia Courier (Augusta), 1830-1833
  • Georgia Crusader (Atlanta), 1861
  • Georgia Enterprise (Covington), 1865-1873
  • Georgia Herald, 1869-1870
  • Georgia Jeffersonian and Griffin Gazette, 1842
  • Georgia Journal and Messenger (Macon), 22, 1862- 1869
  • Georgia Mirror (Florence), 1838-1839
  • Georgia Statesman (Milledgeville), 1825-1827
  • Georgia Times and State Right’s Advocate (Milledgeville), 1833-1834
  • Georgia Weekly (Greenville), 1861
  • Greensboro Herald, 1867-1875
  • Griffin Semi-Weekly Star, 1868-1872
  • Griffin Tri-Weekly Star, 1866-1868
  • Hawkinsville Dispatch, 1867-1874
  • Independent Press (Eatonton), 1854-1855
  • Jefferson News and Farmer (Louisville), 1871-1875
  • Louisville Gazette, 1861
  • Macon Daily Confederate, 1864
  • Macon Daily Journal and Messenger (Macon), 1865-1869
  • Madison Family Visitor, 1856
  • Marietta Advocate, 1863
  • McDuffie Weekly Journal (Thomson), 1872-1876
  • Methodist Advocate (Atlanta), 1869-1878
  • Middle Georgian (Griffin), 1869
  • Mirror (Florence), 1839-1840
  • Monroe Advocate, 1871
  • National Republican (Augusta), 1868
  • Pacificator (Augusta), 1864-1865
  • Palmetto Gazette, 1871-1872
  • Quitman Banner, 1866-1873
  • Republic (Macon), 1844-1845
  • Rome Tri-Weekly Commercial, 1869
  • Savannah Daily Advertiser, 1867-1872
  • Savannah Daily Herald, 1865- 1866
  • Savannah Daily Loyal Georgian, 1864
  • Southern Christian Advocate (Macon), 1866-1878
  • Southern Courant (Washington), 1845
  • Southern Cultivator (Athens), 1867-1870
  • Southern Enterprise (Thomasville), 1867
  • Southern Georgian (Bainbridge), 1866, 1869
  • Southern Herald (Griffin), 1866
  • Southern Museum (Macon), 1848-1850
  • Southern Post (Macon), 1837-1839
  • Southern Republic (Augusta), 1861
  • Southern Spy (Washington), 1834-1835
  • Southern Sun (Bainbridge), 1870-1872
  • Southern Tribune (Macon), 1850-1851
  • Southern Witness (Monroe), 1870-1871
  • Thomaston Herald, 1870-1873
  • Thomson Advertiser (Thomson), 1869-1871
  • Times and State’s Rights Advocate (Milledgeville), 1833
  • Tri-Weekly Constitutionalist (Augusta), 1867-1870
  • Tri-Weekly News and Herald (Savannah), 1867-1868
  • Tri-Weekly Sumter Republican (Americus), 1866-1867
  • Walton Casket (Monroe), 1871
  • Walton Journal (Social Circle), 1870-1871
  • Washington Gazette, 1866-1876
  • Weekly Cartersville Express, 1867
  • Weekly Catoosa Courier (Ringgold), 1872
  • Weekly Chronicle & Sentinel (Augusta), 1861-1874
  • Weekly Constitutionalist (Augusta), 1865- 1877
  • Weekly Constitutionalist (Augusta), 1867-1868
  • Weekly Independent South (Waynesboro), 1861
  • Weekly Loyal Georgian (Augusta), 1867-1868
  • Weekly Republican and Discipline (Atlanta), 1856
  • Weekly Savannah Republican, 1863
  • Weekly Southern Opinion (Atlanta), 1868
  • Weekly Sun (Columbus), 1866-1867
  • Weekly Sun (Columbus), 1868-1873
  • West Point Observer, 1867
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In my opinion, the state of Georgia has done an outstanding job - not only consolidating the previous disparate sites, but also adding new titles - not an easy task.

For all of the Georgia Historic Newspapers website titles as well as links to other free Georgia historical newspaper websites, please visit Georgia Online Historical Newspapers Summary
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Free Illinois Obituaries and Obituary Index Links

8/29/2019

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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 Illinois 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 August, 2019; recently added links are in BOLD)
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General U.S.
  • Currentobituary.com index, 2001-2014
  • United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014
  • United States, Obituaries, American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1899-2012

Illinois
  • Adams County Obituary Indexes 
  • Alexander County Obituary Index (transcriptions) 
  • Algonquin Public Library Obituaries (transcriptions) 
  • Aurora Public Library Beacon Obituary Index 
  • Barrington Death and Obituary Indexes 
  • Belvidere Standard newspaper, Obituaries 1851-1899 (short transcriptions)
  • Blue Island Sun Standard Obituary Index 
  • Boone County Death and Obituary Index 
  • Boone County Obituary card file, ca. 1851-2007 (clippings)
  • Brown County Obituaries (clippings) 
  • Burgess Township, Bond County, Cemeteries and Obituaries (transcripts)
  • Cairo Newspapers Obituaries (transcriptions) 
  • Calhoun County Obituaries (transcriptions) 
  • Canton Register, Obituaries and odds and ends, Jan. 5, 1899-Jul. 4, 1901 (transcriptions)
  • Carroll County Obituary Indexes 
  • Cass County Obituaries (transcriptions) 
  • Central Illinois Death Notices, 1848-1870 (transcriptions)
  • Central Illinois obituaries, 1871-1880 (transcriptions)
  • Champaign County Obituaries (clippings) 
  • Champaign County Obituary Index 
  • Champaign News - Gazette, Obituaries 1949
  • Chicago, Polish Death and Obituary Index 
  • Clinton County Obituary Index (transcriptions) 
  • Coal City Obituary Index 
  • Coal City Obituary Index 
  • Collinsville Herald Obituaries 
  • Cook County, Oak Park, Obituary and Surname card Index, 1883-1987
  • Cook County, Obituaries, 1970-1990 (clippings) 
  • Cook County, Maywood Herald Obituary Card Index, 1885-2002 
  • Cook Memorial Public Library Obituary Index 1894-1999 
  • Danville Jewish Community Obituaries (clippings) 
  • Decatur Daily Review, Obituary card file from  1879-2007
  • Decatur Public Library Herald and Review Obituary Index 
  • DeKalb County Death and Obituary Indexes (clippings) 
  • Der Christliche Botschafter of the Evangelical Church, Index to the subjects of obituaries, 1836-1866
  • DeWitt County Obituaries (transcriptions) 
  • DeWitt County Obituary Index 
  • DuPage County Bloomingdale Public Library Obituary Index​ 
  • DuPage County Death and Obituary Index 
  • Dziennik Chicagoski, Index to Obituaries and Death Notices
  • Edwards County, Obituary card file, ca. 1850-2007 (clippings)
  • Elgin Genealogical Society Obituary Index 
  • Elgin Newspapers Death and Obituary Index 
  • Ford County Obituaries 
  • Frankfort Area Death and Obituary Index 
  • Fulton County, Fulton Democrat, Obituary Book with Index (clippings)
  • Galesburg Public Library Obituary Index 
  • Glenview Death and Obituary Index 
  • Glenview Public Library Obituary Index 
  • Greene County Obituaries (transcriptions) 
  • Greenville Obituaries 1881 (transcriptions)
  • Grundy County Obituary Index  
  • Hamilton County newspapers,  relationships, vital statistics, marriages, abstracted from obituaries and notices,  1858-1992
  • Hamilton County, Obituaries 1926-1931
  • Hancock County scrapbooks, ca. 1890-1984 (clippings)
  • Hardin County Obituary Index (transcriptions) 
  • Hardin County, Obituaries (transcriptions)
  • Henderson County Obituaries (transcriptions 
  • Henry County Obituaries 
  • Highland Park Obituary Index 
  • Illinois Obituaries - Obit City​​ 
  • Illinois Prairie District Public Library Obituary Index 
  • Illinois USGenWeb Obituary Project  
  • Illinois.gov Obituary Index 
  • Indian Prairie Public Library Obituary Index 
  • Iroquois County Death and Obituary Index 
  • Jefferson County Obituaries (transcriptions) 
  • Jersey County Obituaries (transcriptions) 
  • Jo Daviess County Obituaries 
  • Jonesboro Gazette Obituaries (transcriptions) 
  • Kane County Obituaries 
  • Kankakee County Obituary Index  
  • Kendall County Record Death and Obituary Index 1991-2000 
  • LaSalle County Newspaper Indexes 
  • LaSalle County Obituaries  
  • LaSalle County Obituary Index 
  • Logan County Obituaries 
  • Macon County Obituary Indexes 
  • Macon County, Decatur Public Library Collections, 1879-2007
  • Macoupin County Obituaries 
  • Macoupin County Obituaries (transcriptions) 
  • Macoupin County, Obituary card file, ca. 1880-2007 (clippings)
  • Madison County Obituaries (transcriptions) 
  • McDonough County Obituaries 
  • McHenry County Death and Obituary Indexes 
  • McHenry County Historical Society Death and Obituary Index 
  • McHenry Plaindealer Obituary Index 
  • McLean County - Central Illinois Obituaries 
  • Melrose Park Death and Obituary Index 
  • Melrose Park Death Notices Index 
  • Mercer County Obituaries (transcriptions) 
  • Monmouth Cemetery records and Obits (clippings)
  • Monmouth review-atlas, Obits (clippings)
  • Monroe County Obituaries 
  • Montgomery County Obituary Index 
  • Morgan County Obituaries (transcriptions) 
  • Moultrie County Obituaries (transcriptions) 
  • Mount Prospect Death and Obituary Index 
  • Mundelein Death and Obituary Index 
  • Nauvoo, Mildred Hooper Obituary Collection, ca. 1959-1981 (clippings) 
  • ​North Suburban Library Death and Obituary Index  
  • Oak Lawn Death and Obituary Index 
  • Oak Lawn Obituaries 
  • O'Fallon Progress Death and Obituary Index 
  • Ogle County Obituaries 
  • Ogle County/Byron Obituary Index 
  • Park Ridge Public Library Obituary Index 
  • Pike County Obituaries (transcriptions) 
  • Pulaski County Obituaries (transcriptions) 
  • Quincy Herald-Whig,  Miscellaneous newspaper clippings, ca. 1959-1974
  • Richland County, Obituary card file, ca. 1850-2007 (clippings)
  • Rock Island County Genealogical Society Death and Obituary Index 
  • Rock Island County Obituary Index  
  • Rock Island County, newspapers, Genealogical and Obituary abstracts
  • Schuyler County Obituaries (transcriptions) 
  • Sharon Cemetery, some Obituaries (clippings)
  • Skokie Newspaper Obituary Index 
  • Skokie Obituary Index 
  • Southern Cook County and Hammond, Indiana Obituaries, ca. 1970-1990 (clippings)
  • Southern Cook County, Chicago Heights Star, Obituaries, 1977-1992, (clippings)
  • Southern Cook County, Illinois obituaries, ca. Aug. 1982 and Jan. 2 1988 thru May 8 1988 (clippings)
  • Southern Cook County, Miscellaneous Obituaries, ca. 1936-1993, and funeral cards, ca. 1951-1964  (clippings)
  • Southern Illinois Obituaries 
  • Sparta News-Plaindealer, Births, Marriages and Obituaries (clippings)
  • Springfield, Sangamon County, State Journal Register, Index to obits 1986
  • St. Charles Public Library Newspaper Index 
  • St. Clair County Obituary Indexes 
  • Stephenson County, Index to Obituaries, 1847-1980
  • Sterling-Rock Falls Daily Gazette Newspaper Index 
  • Tampico Obituaries (transcriptions) 
  • Tazewell County, Obituary Card Index from the "Pekin Times", 1914-2007 
  • Villa Park Argus Obituary Index 
  • Wabash County, Obituary Card file, ca. 1850-2007 (clippings)
  • Warren County, Obits and tidbits (transcriptions)
  • Warren County, Thumbnail sketches, deaths & obituaries (transcriptions)
  • Washington County Obituaries (transcriptions) 
  • Wayne County Obituaries 
  • West Central Illinois and North Eastern Missouri, Obituaries, ca. 1959-1981 (clippings)
  • Wheaton Obituary Index 
  • White County Obituaries 
  • Whiteside and Bureau County Obituary Index (transcriptions) 
  • Will County Death and Obituary Indexes 
  • Will County, Joliet,  Obituary card index from the Herold News, 1981-1992
  • Williamson County Obituaries (transcriptions) 
  • Wilmette Newspaper Index  
  • Wilmette Obituary Index (transcriptions) 
  • Woodford County, Illinois, Prairie District Library, Obituaries, 1887-2000

If you wish to search this state's historic newspapers for obituaries, click on Illinois Online Historical Newspapers Summary
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1,040 Free Obituary and Obituary Index Collection Links for the Southern States

8/29/2019

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​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 often provide the location in old newspapers where the obituary can be found. Sometimes the obituary clipping is even provided.
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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. 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 August, 2019; Number of databases and new updates are denoted)

  • Alabama Obituaries and Obituary Index Links​ (48 total, 16 new)
  • Arkansas Obituaries and Obituary Index Links (75 total, 26 new)
  • Florida Obituaries and Obituary Index Links (59 total, 15 new)
  • Georgia Obituaries and Obituary Index Links (71 total, 14 new)
  • Kentucky Obituaries and Obituary Index Links (76 total, 17 new)
  • Louisiana Obituaries and Obituary Index Links (61 total, 8 new)
  • Mississippi Obituaries and Obituary Index Links (38 total, 9 new)
  • Missouri Obituaries and Obituary Index Links (98 total, 35 new)
  • North Carolina Obituaries and Obituary Index Links (80 total, 14 new)
  • Oklahoma Obituaries and Obituary Index Links (81 total, 27 new)
  • South Carolina Obituaries and Obituary Index Links (38 total, 9 new)
  • Tennessee Obituaries and Obituary Index Links (73 total, 12 new)
  • Texas Obituaries and Obituary Index Links (112 total, 34 new)
  • Virginia Obituaries and Obituary Index Links (76 total, 21 new)
  • West Virginia Obituaries and Obituary Index Links (54 total, 26 new)

​Good Luck and Happy Hunting!
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Elephind Update - August, 2019

8/29/2019

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The "Search Multiple Historic Newspaper Collections All At Once" website, elephind.com has just published an update that includes many more items and issues from 2 updated collections:

​(from the August, 2019 Elephind Newsletter):

Updated Newspaper Collections

  • Illinois Digital Newspaper Collections: This collection contains 129 digitized newspaper titles primarily from primarily Illinois and the Midwest dating from 1831 to 2011.
 
  • Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection: A collection of over 1.5 million newspaper pages published in Colorado from 1859 to 2017, with crowd sourcing tools and 'browse by county' features.
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​For the complete newsletter article, click HERE

If you have never used  (or heard of) elephind, here are a couple of articles that I have written about this wonderful site that may be interesting:

  • Elephind - One to Watch 
  • When is Fuzzy Search Too Fuzzy? Elephind Tells Us! 

If you have never tried elephind, check it out! The url is elephind.com.
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