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 January, 2021; recently added links are in BOLD)
General U.S.
- Currentobituary.com index, 2001-2014
- Obituary Daily Times Index, 1995-2016
- U.S., Selected Jewish Obituaries, 1948-2002
- 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
Texas
- Amarillo and the High Plains Obituaries (clippings)
- Amarillo Globe-News Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Amarillo Globe Times and the Amarillo News Globe Obituaries 1983-1988
- Anderson County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Anderson County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Andrews County Obituary & Memorial Card Surname Index
- Aransas County Obituary Index 1992-2002
- Arlington Obituaries & Death Notices
- Arlington Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Armstrong County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Austin County Obituaries Indexes
- Bee County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Bell County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Bell County Obituary Indexes
- Bosque County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Bowie County Obituaries Indexes
- Brewster County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Brewster County Obituaries and Death Notices (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
- Caldwell County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Callahan County Obituaries
- Cameron County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Camp County Obituaries
- Camp County Obituary Collection 1975-1999
- Carson County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Cherokee County Obituary Indexes
- Childress County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Childress County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Clay County Obituary Indexes
- Cochran County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Coke County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Collin County - McKinney Obituary Index
- Collin County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Colorado County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Corpus Christi Obituary Index
- Corpus Christi, Texas, Obituary Index, 1940-2010
- Crosby County Obituaries and index
- Czech-Moravian Brethren in Texas Obituaries, 1905-1973
- Dallas County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Dallas County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Dawson County Obituaries
- Deaf Smith County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Delta County Obituary Index
- Denton County Death and Obituary Index
- Denton County Miscellaneous Obituaries
- Denton County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Dimmit County Death and Obituary Index (transcriptions)
- Early Texas newspapers Index to Obituaries, Death Notices 1835-1885
- 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)
- Garza County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Gazetteer of Deceased Texas Physicians
- Grand Prairie Genealogical Society Death and Obituary Index
- Gray County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Hale County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Hall County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Harris County - Baytown Sun Obituary Index
- Harris County Miscellaneous Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Hood County Obituary Index
- Houston Chronicle Obituaries, 1901-1905
- Houston Newspapers Obituary Index
- Houston Public Library, African American Funeral Programs
- Houston, Historic Hollywood Cemetery Records, 1895-2008 (includes obituaries)
- Howard County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Humble Area Local Newspaper Obituary index 1993-2017
- Humble Area Newspapers Obituary Index
- Hutchinson County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Kerr County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
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Kimble County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Lamar County Deaths and Obituaries (transcriptions)
- LaSalle County Obituaries
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Limestone County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Lubbock County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Martin County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Matagorda Gazette Death and Marriage Notices 1859-1860
- McCulloch County Obituary Index
- McKinney Newspaper Obituary Indexes
- McLean, Gray County, Obituaries from the McLean News, 1909-1999 (clippings)
- 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)
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Omaha City Cemetery Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Parker County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Port Arthur News Obituary Index
- Port Arthur News Obituary Index
- Potter County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Potter County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
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Rockwall County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Red River County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- San Antonio Obituary Index
- San Marcos Public Library Obituaries (clippings)
- San Saba County Obituary Index
- Shelby County Death and Obituary Indexes
- Shelby County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Smith County Death and Obituary Index (transcriptions)
- Swisher County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- Tarrant County Obituary Indexes
- Taylor Death and Obituary Indexes
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Texas GenealogyBuff Obituary Files
- Texas Newspapers Obituaries, 1832 - 1885
- Texas Obituaries - Obit City
- Texas Obituary Project
- Texas USGenWeb Obituary Project
- Travis County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Victoria County Obituary Index
- Waco Obituaries, and various related items, 1874-1908
- Wheeler County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
- 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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