Free Michigan Obituaries and Obituary Index Links

6/6/2020

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 June, 2020; recently added links are in BOLD)

General U.S.

Michigan

If you wish to search this state's historic newspapers for obituaries, click on Michigan Online Historical Newspapers Summary

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2 Comments

Mary Ellis link

7/14/2019 08:08:22 am

Hi, I came across this for Oconto county, Michigan: there are 2 links. One for the Oconto county newspapers and one at the bottom of their page for 1997-2015 obituaries.
Search page for the newspaper collection is: http://ocnews.co.oconto.wi.us/jsp/RcWebSimpleSearch.jsp The main page to reach it all is: http://www.ocontolibrary.org/online-resources.html
the above page is where the obits link is listed at the bottom.

Kenneth R Marks

8/1/2019 05:32:41 pm

Mary,

These links are for Oconto County, Wisconsin. The digitized newspapers are already in my link list for Wisconsin. Your first link, for the obituaries goes to a page that lists years. However when clicking on a specific year to see or search the obits, it leads to 404 Pages. Thanks for bringing it to my attention.