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 Mississippi 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.
- Currentobituary.com index, 2001-2014
- United Methodist Church Annual Conference Journal Memoirs and Obituary Index
- United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014
- United States, Obituaries, American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1899-2012
Mississippi
- Adams County Miscellaneous Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Alcorn County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Attala County Obituary Index
- Attala Short Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Brookhaven Daily Leader Obituary Index
- Carroll County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Carroll County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Claiborne County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Claiborne County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Clarksdale, Obituaries from Newspaper Scrapbooks (clippings)
- George County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Greene County Obituary Index (transcriptions)
- Hancock County Obituary Index
- Hinds County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Jackson County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Jefferson County Miscellaneous Obituaries
- Lamar County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Lauderdale County Miscellaneous Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Lauderdale County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Lawrence County Press Obituary Index
- Lee County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Lincoln-Lawrence-Franklin Regional Library - Obituary Indexes
- Lowndes County Egger Cemetery Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Marshall County Miscellaneous Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Mississippi Obituaries - Obit City
- Mississippi USGenWeb Obituary Project
- Montgomery County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Oktibbeha County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Pike County Magnolia Gazette Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Pontotoc County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Prentiss County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Singing River Genealogy-Local History Library Obituaries (clippings)
- Tallahatchie County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Tallahatchie County Obituaries 1994-1998
- Tate County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Tippah County Obituaries (short transcriptions)
- Tishomingo County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Yazoo Herald Obituary Index
If you wish to search this state's historic newspapers for obituaries, click on Mississippi Online Historical Newspapers Summary
Good Luck and Happy Hunting!
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