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 Iowa 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
Iowa
- Adair County Obituary Indexes
- Allamakee County Obituary Index
- Appanoose County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Benton County Obituary Index
- Black Hawk County Obituaries
- Boone County Obituary Index
- Bremer County Waverly Phoenix Obituary Index
- Bremer County Tripoli Leader Obituaries
- Buena Vista County Obituaries
- Burlington Public Library Obituary Index
- Butler County Obituary Index
- Carroll County Obituaries
- Cass County Obituaries
- Chickasaw County Obituaries
- Clarke County Obituaries
- Clayton County Obituary Index
- Clinton County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Council Bluffs and Pottawattamie County Obituary Index
- Crawford County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Dallas County Obituaries
- Davenport Obituary Search
- Decatur County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Delaware County Obituaries
- Des Moines Obituary Index Search
- Des Moines County Obituaries
- Dickinson County Obituaries
- Drake Community Library Obituaries (clippings)
- Dubuque Telegraph Herald Obituary Index
- Dubuque County Obituaries
- Fayette County Obituaries
- Floyd County Obituaries
- Franklin County Obituaries
- Fremont County Obituaries
- Greene County Obituaries
- Grundy County Obituary Indexes
- Guthrie County Obituaries
- Hancock County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Harrison County Obituary Index
- Howard County Plain Dealer Index 1867 - 1942
- Humboldt County Obituaries
- Ida County Obituaries
- Iowa City News Index
- Iowa County Obituary Index
- Iowa Obituaries - Obit City
- lowa USGenWeb Obituary Project
- Jackson County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Jackson County Obituaries
- Jasper County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Jefferson County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Jones County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Lee County Obituary Indexes
- Linn County Obituaries
- Linn County Obituary Index
- Livonia Public Library Obituary Indexes
- Lovilia Press Obituaries (clippings)
- Lucas County Newspaper Indexes
- Madison County Obituary Index (transcriptions)
- Mills County Obituary Index
- Mitchell County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Monroe County Cemetery Index (clippings)
- Muscatine Obituary Index
- North Central Iowa Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Page County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Pottawattamie County Newspapers Obituary Index
- Sioux City Journal Index
- Sioux County Obituaries
- Story County Obituaries
- Taylor County Obituary Indexes (transcriptions)
If you wish to search this state's historic newspapers for obituaries, click on Iowa Online Historical Newspapers Summary
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