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 Alabama 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, 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
Alabama
- Alabama Obituaries - Obit City
- Birmingham Area Newspapers Obituary Index
- Pike County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Alabama USGenWeb Obituary Project
- Blount County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Blount County Obituary Index 1915-1940
- Butler County Obituary Indexes
- Calhoun County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Central Alabama Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Chambers County Obituaries
- Coffee County Obituaries
- Colbert County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Covington County Newspaper Obituary Index
- Covington County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Fayette County Public Library Death and Obituary Index
- Huntsville–Madison County Public Library Newspaper Obituary Index
- Lauderdale County Death and Obituary Index
- Lawrence County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Lawrence County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Limestone County Obituary Index
- Macon County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Miscellaneous Alabama Obituaries by County
- Monroe County Eagle Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Morgan County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Ozark Dale County Public Library Obituaries (clippings)
- Pike County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Shelby County Obituary Indexes
- Southern Democrat Obituary Index
- Tallapoossa County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Tuscaloosa County Obituary Index
- Winston County Haleyville Journal and Miscellaneous Obituary Indexes
- Winston Herald Abstracts of Obituaries
If you wish to search this state's historic newspapers for obituaries, click on Alabama Online Historical Newspapers Summary
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