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 June, 2020; recently added links are in BOLD)
General U.S.
- Currentobituary.com index, 2001-2014
- 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
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
Good Luck and Happy Hunting!
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