All the links below lead to obituaries, death or funeral notices, mostly from newspapers, but all are free, although some sites may require you to register or allow cookies to be set. Some are for the current day only, some are archived for a week, a month, or more. Also included are death registers.
Please report any broken links, or a change in status, should a site start requesting payment for the full text of an obituary. Also, please send me the URLs for any other sources of obituaries available on-line at no charge.
If I use your links, I'll send you a REAL postcard.
Use the Search Archives by Keyword box with terms (one at a time) "survived", "funeral", "death", "died", etc. This will bring up varying lists of obits going back to 2003, although the archives may go back to 1998.
under NEWS menu at left of screen, click Obituaries. Link is date-coded. NEAT TRICK!!! - Edit the date in the URL to get obits back to the January 2, 2009 issue! Just follow the same format.
Reno NV - Reno Gazette Journal
Current obits & link to last 30 days notices beside green search button
Obits, many including photo, submitted by a network of funeral homes in NH and MA. Search by name or click Recent Obituaries on the left side of the screen.
Local and out of state obits, plus a neat search utility on the bottom right to check archives back to 1997. You must put something in the search term box or a blank page is returned.
Current obits only. Archive doesn't appear to be accessible anymore. Click the first obit in the list and it opens that notice, plus a list of links to rest of the notices on the index page. You don't have to flip back and forth to view successive obits. Smart web design!
Straight forward page with search by day or by name. Check the radio button for Obituaries and Death Notices before clicking the Submit Query button Seven day archive.
Current obits and links to archives back to March 1998 on one page. Includes a surname search that will give you a whole day's obits, but highlight your search name in red.
NOTE: All text in obits is searchable. My test pulled up a brother-in-law's name listed as a survivor.
A really neat and simple search utility for current obits, with the full text being searchable. Choose the day of the week and check Death Notices, Funeral Services, and Memorial Services, though the most returns resulted when I didn't make any choices. Enter any search terms in the boxes below.
Death notices are included. Obits listed were truncated and you are still advised that if you want the entire text of an obit, go buy a street issue. Yeah, that's practical 1,500 miles away. This isn't a national paper. I think they've perhaps backed off a bit on the lopping off of the obits.
Full text obits dating back to ca 1910, plus marriage and birth announcements, etc. from the Tri-County area (Chemung Co NY, & Bradford and Tioga Counties PA)
Elmont, Franklin Square & West Hempstead NY - Three Villages Times
Registration is required, but a free 30-day account is offered. After that, I'm not sure if you can re-register without cost, or if a different e-mail address will work. Archived since 1996 June 27.
Current and archived obits back to March 1999 (1999 are short death notices, not full obituaries). Explicit instructions included on one page. PSSST -- It's genealogy, not geneOlogy!!!
see actual images of family bibles with their handwritten family histories and inserts of marriage certificates, etc. Organized by family surname on the bibles. NOTE: names from entries are not indexed.
Scroll down to "Deaths" for the alphabetical links. Name of deceased, parents and date of publication is included. Unfortunately, confusing XX-XX-XX date format has been used. In this case, it's month, day, year.
You may be asked before you are able to view the obits to select either dial-up or broadband, whichever service you have. Seven days of obits, visitations & funerals. Click Page to adjust the page size. You can click on any article to see the text. Select the date by sliding the mouse over the date under the header (left side).
Note: Greensboro Library proviso that database is incomplete, and errors may have occurred in transcription or in the source book, Guilford County Marriage and Death Records, 1941.
Index only of name, sex, race, parents' names, date of death, location, and original records reference, with added comments in red type. Of course, copies of the originals may be purchased.
includes area newspapers: Raleigh Register, Farmers & Mechanic (Raleigh) & Clayton Bud. From Jan 2008: Clayton News-Star, Cleveland Post, Four Oaks-Benson News in Review, Kenly News, Princeston News-Leader, Selma News, & Dunn Daily Record. Various search methods provided.
use the search box on the right side of the screen to retrieve notices archived at Legacy.com since 2007 Sept 25 (set the date choice to All time. If there are other obits from 2001, I couldn't find any functioning link.
apparently edited version of obit only online -- each notice is followed by a directive to see that day's edition of the paper for the full obit. Give me a break! I'm in Timbuktu and I need to get a copy of the physical paper?!
If I use your links, I'll send you a REAL postcard.
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