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 South Dakota 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
South Dakota
- Beadle County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Bon Homme County Obituaries
- Brookings County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Brown County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Brule County Obituary Indexes
- Butte County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Campbell County Obituary Index
- Clark County Obituary Index
- Faulk County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Hand County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Hand County Obituary Indexes (transcriptions)
- Hyde County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Lake County Obituary Index
- Lincoln County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Lyman County Obituary Index
- Minnehaha County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Minnehaha County Obituaries (clippings)
- Potter County Obituaries
- Rapid City Journal Death and Obituary Index
- Sioux Falls Obituary Index
- Sioux Valley Obituary Index
- South Dakota Obituaries - Obit City
- South Dakota USGenWeb Obituary Project
- Sturgis Obituary Index
- Tripp County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Tripp County Obituary Indexes (transcriptions)
- Union County Obituary Indexes
- Watertown Public Opinion Obituaries 2003- (transcriptions)
If you wish to search this state's historic newspapers for obituaries, click on South Dakota Online Historical Newspapers Summary
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