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 Michigan 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
Michigan
- Alcona County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Alger County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Allegan County Genealogy Indexes (clippings)
- Alpena County Obituary Indexes
- Arenac County Obituaries
- Arenac County Obituary Indexes
- Bay City Times Death and Obituary Index
- Bay County Death and Obituary Index
- Berrien County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Calhoun County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Calhoun County Obituaries Index
- Cass County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Charlevoix Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Charlevoix Obituary Index (clippings)
- Cheboygan County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Chippewa River District Library Obituary Index
- Chippiwa County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Clinton County Death and Obituary Index
- Detroit News Death and Obituary Index
- Detroit Obituary Indexes
- Eaton County Obituaries (transcriptions and clippings)
- Fremont Area Death and Obituary Index
- Farmington Death and Obituary Indexes (some clippings)
- Flint Public Library Death and Obituary Indexes
- Genessee County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Gladwin County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Gladwin County Obituary Index
- Grand Haven Tribune Death and Obituary Index
- Grand Rapids Press and Herald Obituary Index
- Grand Traverse County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Gratiot County Obituaries (transcribed)
- Grosse Pointe Public Library Obituary Index
- Hartford Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Huron County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Huron Daily Tribune Obituaries Index
- Ionia County Obituaries
- Iosco County Obituary Index
- Isabella County Death and Obituary Index
- Isabella County Obituary Index (clippings)
- Isabella County Obituary Indexes
- Leelanau County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Lenawee County Obituary Indexes
- Livingston County Death and Obituary Index
- Livonia Observer Death and Obituary Index
- Macomb County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Macomb County Obituary Index
- Manistee County Obituary Index
- Mecosta County Genealogical Society Death and Obituary Index
- Menominee County Death and Obituary Index
- Michigan Obituaries - Obit City
- Michigan Obituaries, 1820-2006
- Michigan Soldier Obituary Index
- Michigan USGenWeb Obituary Project
- Midland County Obituary Index
- Midland County Obituary Index 1928 - 1950
- Midland Genealogical Society Obituary Index
- Milford Death and Obituary Index
- Monroe County News Death and Obituary Index
- Monroe County Obituaries
- Monroe County Obituary Search
- Montcalm Obituary Indexes
- Muskegon County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Oakland County Death and Obituary Index (clippings)
- Oakland County Obituary Index 1890-1999
- Ogemaw County Newspaper Index
- Otsego County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Ottawa County Obituaries
- Ottawa County Obituary Indexes
- Owosso Argus-Press Obituaries
- Pinconning Press and Pinconning Journal Death and Obituary Index
- Presque County Obituary Indexes
- Reed City Clarion Obituaries 1900-1911 (trancriptions)
- Rochester Avon Historical Society Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Saginaw Death and Obituary Index
- Saginaw Library Obituary Index
- Sandusky Library Obituary Index
- Sandusky Obituaries (clippings)
- Sandusky Obituary Index
- Sanilac County Jeffersonian Newspaper and Obituary Indexes
- Shiawassee County Argus Press Obituary Index
- Southwest Michigan Obituary Index
- St. Clair County Obituaries (clippings and transcriptions)
- St. Joseph County Death and Obituary Index
- Stockbridge Newspapers Obituary Index
- Traverse City Record-Eagle Index
- Trenton Historical Society Obituaries
- Warren Public Library Obituaries
- Washtenaw County Obituaries (transcrptions)
- Western Michigan Newspapers Index
- Willard Library Newspaper Index
If you wish to search this state's historic newspapers for obituaries, click on Michigan Online Historical Newspapers Summary
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