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 Georgia 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 January, 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
Georgia
- African American Funeral Programs with Obituaries
- African-American Cemeteries and Obituaries
- Baldwin County Deaths and Obituaries
- Banks County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Banks County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Bartow County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Berrien County Obituary Index
- Bibb County Obituary Index
- Bibb County, The Georgia Messenger Obituaries 1836-1838 (transcriptions)
- Brooks County Newspaper and Obituary Extractions
- Brooks-Thomas Counties Obituaries and Death Notices
- Butts County Obituaries
- Carroll County Obituaries
- Carroll County Obituary Index 1872-2008
- Catooosa County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Clarke County Obituaries
- Clay County Obituaries
- Clinch County Obituaries
- Coffee County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Columbia County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Columbus Death and Obituary Index 1900-1918
- Columbus Death and Obituary Index 1800-1899
- Columbus Ledger Enquirer Obituary Index 2006-2011
- Columbus Newspapers Obituary Project, 1872-1918
- Coweta County Obituaries
- Dade County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Decatur County Obituaries (clippings)
- Decatur County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- DeKalb County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Dodge County Newspaper Clippings
- Dooly County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Dougherty County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Emanuel County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Floyd County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Forsyth County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Fulton County Obituaries
- Fulton County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Fulton County, Necrology and Obituaries, 1857-1933
- Georgia GenealogyBuff Obituary Files
- Georgia Obituaries - Obit City
- Georgia USGenWeb Obituary Project
- Georgia World War I Casualties Scrapbooks (some obituary clippings)
- Glynn County Obituaries
- Gordon County Obituaries Search
- Hall County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Henry, Newton and Rockdale counties, Confederate Soldier Obituaries , 1879-1943
- Jones County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Lumpkin County Death and Obituary Index
- Madison Historic Cemetery and Obituaries Project
- Marion County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Milledgeville, Georgia Journal Obituaries and Death Notices 1819-1845
- Murray County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Muscogee County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Paulding County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Pickens County Progress Obituary Index
- Polk County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Pulaski County Newspaper Clippings
- Richmond County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Richmond County Death and Obituary Index
- Rose Hill Cemetery Obituaries, 1926-1941
- Savannah Morning News Obituaries Index
- Schley County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Southern Christian Advocate Obituary Index
- Southern Recorder ,Abstracts of Georgia Death Notices, 1830-1855
- Stewart County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Summerville News Newspaper Death Notices
- Sumter County Obituary Indexes
- Terrell County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Thomas County Public Library African-American Index to Obituaries
- Twiggs County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Upson County, Newspaper clippings extracts, 1825-1889
- Valdosta Daily Times Obituary Index
- Walker County Messenger, 1916-1921 (clippings)
- Walker County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Whitfield County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Whitfield County Scrapbook History (includes obituary notices)
- Wilkinson County Obituaries (transcriptions)
If you wish to search this state's historic newspapers for obituaries, click on Georgia Online Historical Newspapers Summary
Good Luck and Happy Hunting!
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