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 Kansas 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.
Kansas
If you wish to search this state's historic newspapers for obituaries, click on Kansas Online Historical Newspapers Summary
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 Kansas 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
Kansas
- Allen County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Anderson County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Atchison County Obituaries
- Barton County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Bourbon County Obituary Index
- Chase County Obituary Index
- Chautauqua County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Cherokee County Obituaries Index
- Clark County Obituaries
- Coffey County Obituary Index
- Crawford County Obituary Index
- Decatur County Obituaries
- Douglas County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Elk County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Emporia Gazette Obituary Index
- Franklin County Obituary Index
- Gove County Obituaries
- Graham County Obituaries
- Harvey County Database (transcriptions)
- Harvey County Genealogical Society Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Johnson County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Johnson County Obituary Index
- Kansas Genealogy Society Obituary Index 1870-1999
- Kansas Obituaries - Obit City
- Kansas USGenWeb Obituary Project
- Leavenworth County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Lincoln County Obituary Index (some transcribed)
- Lyon County Obituaries
- Marshall County Obituary Index (transcriptions)
- McPherson County Obituary Index
- McPherson Obituary Index
- Meade County Obituary Index
- Newton Obituary Index
- Norton County Obituary Index
- Onaga Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Osage City Library Obituary Index
- Plainville Times Obituary Index
- Pleasanton Herald Obituaries 1885-97
- Reno County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Rice County Obituaries
- Rooks County Obituary Index
- Rossville People and Obituary Search
- Rush County Deaths and Obituaries Index
- Sedgwick County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Sheridan County Obituaries
- Stevens County Obituary Index
- Topeka and Shawnee County Obituaries Index
- Trego County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Wichita Eagle/Beacon Obituary Index
- Wichita Newspapers Obituary Index
- Wilson County Death and Obituary Index
- Wyandotte County Obituaries
If you wish to search this state's historic newspapers for obituaries, click on Kansas Online Historical Newspapers Summary
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