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 Ohio 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
Ohio
- Adams County, newspaper excerpts 1831-1857
- Akron Beacon Journal Obituary Index
- Akron Beacon Journal, Obituaries, weddings, anniversaries 1994
- Allen County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Alliance Obituary Index
- Ashland County Obituary Index
- Ashtabula County Obituaries 1831-1869 (transcriptions)
- Ashtabula County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Athens County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Auglaize County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Barberton Public Library Obituary Indexes
- Belmont County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Brown County Death and Obituary Index
- Brown County, Obituaries, bible and cemetery records
- Butler County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Butler County Obituary Index (transcriptions)
- Carroll County Obituary Index
- Carroll County, Obituaries, 1863-1922
- Champaign County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Cincinnati Obituary Index
- Cincinnati Volksfreund, Index of death notices and marriage notices 1850-1908
- Clark County Obituaries
- Clark County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Clermont County Death and Obituary Index
- Cleveland Jewish Obituary Indexes
- Cleveland News Index
- Clinton County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Clinton County, Newspapers, death and obituary abstracts, 1838 to 1867
- Clinton County, Obituaries, 1867-1875 and selected genealogical notes
- Columbiana County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Columbiana County, Ohio, Salem News Obituary Index, 1957-2011
- Columbus News and Obituary Index
- Coshocton County, Index to newspaper obituaries, 1826-1908
- Coshocton Ohio Obituary Indexes
- Crawford County Death and Obituary Index, 1860-2004 (clippings)
- Crawford County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Cuyahoga County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Cuyahoga County Obituary Indexes
- Dayton Obituary Index
- Dayton, Ohio, Obituary Index, 1850-2013
- Dayton, Gedenk-Blatter, Obituaries 1894-1904
- Defiance County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Delaware County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Englewood, The Vindicator, Obituary Index
- Erie County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Fayette County Death and Obituary Index
- Fayette County, Ohio, Record Herald Obituary Index, 1911-2005
- Fulton County Obituary Indexes
- Gallia County Death and Obituary Index (transcriptions)
- Gallia County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Geauga County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Geauga County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Guernsey County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Hamilton County Newspaper Index
- Hamilton County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Hamilton County, Miscellaneous Obituary abstracts and extracts : ca. 19th century
- Hancock County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Hancock County Obituary Index
- Hancock County, Ohio, Obituary Index, 1808-2010
- Hardin County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Harris Elmore Public Library Obituaries (clippings)
- Harrison County Obituaries, 1946-1958 : clippings from the Cadiz Republican & the Freeport Press
- Henry County Genealogical Society Death and Obituary Indexes
- Hicksville area Obituaries (clippings)
- Hocking County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Huron County - Willard Area Death and Obituary Index
- Jefferson County Obituaries
- Kenton Newspaper Death & Marriage Notices (clippings)
- Knox County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Lake County Death and Obituary Index
- Lake County Obituary Indexes
- Lawrence County Obituary Indexes (transcriptions)
- Logan County Obituaries
- Logan County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Louisville Public Library Death and Obituary Index
- Lucas County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Mahoning County Obituary Index - 1843 to 1870
- Marion County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Medina County Obituary Index
- Mercer County Obituaries
- Mercer County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Mercer County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Miami County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Miami County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Miami County Obituary Index
- Miami County Obituary Indexes (transcriptions)
- Monroe Commerical Obituary Index
- Monroe County Death and Obituary Index
- Montgomery County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Montgomery County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Morgan County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Muskingum County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Muskingum County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Muskingum County Obituary Index
- Newcomerstown News, Obituaries 1990-1999 (clippings)
- Northwestern Ohio Pioneers, Obituaries (clippings)
- Ohio Death and Obituary Index
- Ohio Genealogical Society - Ohio Obituary Index
- Ohio Genealogical Society, Obituary collection, 1970-2014
- Ohio Obituaries - Obit City
- Ohio USGenWeb Obituary Project
- Ohio, MOLO Obituary Index, 1811-2012
- Perry County Death and Obituary Index (transcriptions)
- Pomeroy, Meigs County, Tribune Telegraph newspaper, Obituaries 1920-1921 (transcriptions)
- Portsmouth Public Library Newspaper Index
- Preble County Births, Marriages, and Deaths
- Putnam County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Richland County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Richland County Obituaries and Index (transcriptions)
- Richland County Obituary Index and Obituaries
- Richland County Obituary Index (transcriptions)
- Ross County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Ross County Obituary Index
- Salem News Death and Obituary index
- Stark County Obituary Indexes
- Stark County Obituary Index
- Stow-Munroe Falls Obituary Index
- Summit County Obituaries
- The Cleveland Jewish News Obituary Index, 1964-2007
- The Vindicator, Obituaries, 1871-1977 (clippings)
- Toledo Area, Obituary index, 1837-1969
- Toledo Blade Obituary Index
- Tri-state obituaries, (Indiana-Ohio-Michigan), 1970-1974 (transcriptions)
- Trumbull County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Tuscarawas County Obituary Index
- Union County Obituary Index
- Van Wert County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Van Wert County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Versailles Leader, Obituaries 1886-1912 (transcriptions)
- Warren County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Warren County Obituary Index
- Warren Tribune Chronicle Obituary Index
- Washington County Newspaper Obituaries, 1884-2013 (clippings)
- Washington County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Wayne County Obituary Indexes
- Williams County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Williams County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Williams County Obituary Index
- Wood County Obituary Index
- Wood County Sentinel Death and Obituary Index
- Worthington News Index
- Youngstown Vindicator Obituary Index
If you wish to search this state's historic newspapers for obituaries, click on Ohio Online Historical Newspapers Summary
Good Luck and Happy Hunting!
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