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 Oregon 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 March, 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
Oregon
- Baker County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Bend Bulletin Newspaper Index
- Benton County Obituary Index
- Clackamas County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Clackamas Death and Obituary Index
- Coos County Obituary Indexes
- Corvallis Gazette-Times Newspaper Index
- Crook County Obituaries
- Genealogical Forum of Oregon Miscellaneous Obituary Clipping Index
- Genealogical Forum of Oregon Obituary Index
- Grant's Pass Courier Obituary Index
- Hillsboro Death and Obituary Index
- Jackson County Obituary Indexes
- Josephine County Obituary Index
- Klamath County Obituary Index
- Lake Oswego Newspapers Index
- Lincoln County Obituaries
- Linn Genealogical Society People Search
- Northwest Heritage Obituaries with Canby Index
- Oregon Newspapers Index
- Oregon Obituaries - Obit City
- Oregon Obituary Database
- Oregon Obituary Index
- Oregon Obituary Index
- Oregon USGenWeb Obituary Project
- Portland Oregonian Index Search
- Rainier Newspapers Obituary Index
- Sherman County Death and Obituaries Index (transcriptions)
- Tigard Death and Obituary Index
- Tillamook County Obituary Index
- Umatilla County Obituaries
- Union County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Upper Coquille Valley Obituary index
- Wallowa County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Wallowa County Obituary Index (transcriptions)
If you wish to search this state's historic newspapers for obituaries, click on Oregon Online Historical Newspapers Summary
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