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 Texas 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
Texas
- Amarillo Globe-News Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Anderson County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Andrews County Obituary & Memorial Card Surname Index
- Aransas County Obituary Index 1992-2002
- Arlington Obituaries & Death Notices
- Arlington Obituaries (trancriptions)
- Austin County Obituaries Indexes
- Bee County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Bell County Obituary Indexes
- Bosque County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Bowie County Obituaries Indexes
- Brewster County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Bryan Area Obituary Indexes
- Burleson County Death Notice Indexes
- Burleson County Obituaries
- Burnet County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Burnet County Obituary Index
- Burnet County Obituary Index, 1875-2011
- Caldwell County Genealogical/Historical Society Obituary Index
- Callahan County Obituaries
- Camp County Obituaries
- Cherokee County Obituary Indexes
- Childress County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Clay County Obituary Indexes
- Cochran County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Coke County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Collin County - McKinney Obituary Index
- Colorado County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Corpus Christi Obituary Index
- Crosby County Obituaries and index
- Dallas County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Dawson County Obituaries
- Delta County Obituary Index
- Denton County Death and Obituary Index
- Denton County Miscellaneous Obituaries
- Dimmit County Death and Obituary Index (transcriptions)
- Eastland County Obituaries
- El Paso Obituary Index (transcriptions)
- Ellis County Obituaries
- Fort Bend County Libraries Obituaries (clippings)
- Fredericksburg and Gillespie County Death and Obituary Index
- Galveston County Death and Obituary Index (short transcriptions)
- Gazetteer of Deceased Texas Physicians
- Grand Prairie Genalogical Society Death and Obituary Index
- Harris County - Baytown Sun Obituary Index
- Harris County Miscellaneous Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Hood County Obituary Index
- Houston Newspapers Obituary Index
- Humble Area Newspapers Obituary Index
- Lamar County Deaths and Obituaries (transcriptions)
- LaSalle County Obituaries
- Martin County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- McCulloch County Obituary Index
- McKinney Newspaper Obituary Indexes
- McLennan County Obituary Indexes
- Menard County Obituary Index
- Mexia Death and Obituary Index 1950-1999 (transcriptions)
- Montgomery County Obituary Search
- Nacogdoches Daily Sentinel Newspaper Death and Obituary Index
- Navarro County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Nolan County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Nueces County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Port Arthur News Obituary Index
- Potter County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- San Antonio Obituary Index
- San Marcos Public Library Obituaries (clippings)
- San Saba County Obituary Index
- Shelby County Death and Obituary Indexes
- Smith County Death and Obituary Index (transcriptions)
- Tarrant County Obituary Indexes
- Taylor Death and Obituary Indexes
- Texas Obituaries - Obit City
- Texas Obituary Project
- Texas USGenWeb Obituary Project
- Travis County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Victoria County Obituary Index
- Williamson County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Wise County Obituaries (clippings)
If you wish to search this state's historic newspapers for obituaries, click on Texas Online Historical Newspapers Summary
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