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 Minnesota 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
Minnesota
- Aitkin County Obituaries (clippings)
- Blue Earth County Deaths and Obituaries Index
- Blue Earth County Miscellaneous (transcrptions)
- Blue Earth County Miscellaneous Indexes
- Brainerd Historic Newspapers Obituaries
- Carlton County Obituary Index
- Carver County Newspaper and Obituary Index
- Clay and Steele County Obituaries, 1865-2006
- Dakota County Obituary Index (transcriptions)
- Dodge County Obituary Index
- Duluth Area Obituary Index
- Goodhue County Deaths and Obituary Index
- Hedberg Public Library Death and Obituary Index
- Hennepin County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Hubbard County Death and Obituary Index
- Lake County Deaths and Obituary Index
- Mankato Free Press Obituary Index
- Minnesota Obituaries - Obit City
- Minnesota USGenWeb Obituary Project
- Minnesota, Deaths and Obituaries 1865-2006
- Mower County Death and Obituary Index
- Mower County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Murray County Obituaries
- Norman County Obituary Index
- Olmsted County Death and Obituary Index
- Olmsted County Personals Index
- Olmsted County Personals Index
- Otter Tail County Death and Obituary Indexes
- Otter Tail County Historical Society Obituary Index Search
- Otter Tail County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Owatonna Public Library - Dalby Database Obituary Index (transcriptions)
- Polk County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Redwood County Obituaries
- Rochester Newspaper Index
- Scott County Obituary and Marriage Index Surname Search
- Scott County Obituary Index
- Sherburne History Centre Obituary Indexes
- St. Cloud Daily Times Obituary Index
- Stevens County Genealogical Society Records, 1876-2006
- Todd County Obituary Index
- Wabasha County Obituary Directory (transcriptions)
- Wadena County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Washington County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Wilkin County Death and Obituary Index
- Wilkin County Obituaries Index
If you wish to search this state's historic newspapers for obituaries, click on Minnesota Online Historical Newspapers Summary
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