Online Daily Newspapers With Obituaries

Obituaries Online

All of the following online newspaper editions include obituaries. Some also include marriage, engagement, and birth announcements.

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If there are no comments associated with a link, you will find the usual fare. I will only make editorial comments when I find something you should be sure to check out or if they include additional genealogical information (such as marriage, engagement, or birth announcements). If you find other sites, please use the Feedback form to let me know. Include: state, county, publication's name, and link. Don't use HTML codes as my email program interprets URLs.

National

Newspapers within the United States
NewsVoyager: Hotlinks to Newspapers Online: Yet another collection of newspaper links, arranged by state. Many are already listed here and many are business, weekly, or alternative press. If anyone has the time to check them out please let me know if you find any good ones.
NewsLibrary Archives: Now you can search the NewsLibrary archives - virtually every article -- millions -- published by award-winning newspapers from across the country. Searching the archives is free. Charges apply only when stories are accessed.
ObitsArchive.com - powered by NewsLibrary.com: As with NewsLibrary, searching the Obituary archives is free. Charges apply only when you wish to view an article.
Obituary Daily Times: If you are searching for descendants of a particular family group, this is the exchange group you want. Volunteers submit basic obituary data from their daily papers and you can search their database for your surnames. Then you can query the submitter for full details. This is a great site to find obits from those newspapers that don't publish online. Their new search engine offers Keyword, Soundex, and MetaPhone searches.

Alabama

Alabama Live Obituary Listings: Obits from Birmingham, Huntsville, and Mobile, and surrounding..

Arkansas

Faulkner Co.: Conway: Log Cabin Democrat: Use their Search box to find obituaries.
Independence Co.:Batesville: Daily Guard: The Daily Guard publishes current birth/death/marriages and has an extensive archive of past notices. You must register to view them; but it's free.
NW Arkansas News: This is the joint site for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Benton County Daily Record, and Northwest Arkansas Times. You can access each from the main page and either click the obituary/birth/marriage links or use the search feature to check earlier dates. Archives seem to be limited.
Pulaski Co.: Little Rock: Arkansas Democrat Gazette: To access their site you must register for the online version - it's free. They do charge for news articles found through the archive but it doesn't state whether there is a charge to view archived obituaries or other vital statistics.
The Morning News of Northwest Arkansas ONLINE: Only the current month's obituaries are linked to their main site (see first link below). In order to find the archived obituaries, you must drill down through their site. I have included links to those directories below to save you some time. Each file within these directories is a separate obituary.

Florida

Central Florida: Orlando Sentinel: Covers Orange, Seminole, Brevard, Osceola, Volusia, and Lake County. Site is searchable. Search last 2 weeks free, and archives are online back to 1985! Modest fee to search archives.
Central Florida: The Tampa Tribune: Covers Hillsborough, Pasco, Pinellas, and Polk Counties. Sunday issue has wedding and engagement announcements. Be sure to check out "History & Heritage" in the Baylife section. Extensive research available (fee),
Duval Co: Jacksonville: Florida Times-Union: Fully searchable. Back issues available.

Georgia

Brantley Co.: Brantley Enterprise
Chatham Co.: Savannah Morning News: Type "obit" in the search entry and you'll get all the current and archived obituary pages.
Fulton Co.: Access Atlanta: This site carries obituaries from The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Since this is a confusing site to navigate, I have linked directly to the Family-placed obituaries. Follow the "News Obituaries" link at the bottom for the official death notices.

Indiana

Lawrence Co.: Bedford On-Line: Not searchable, but has obits thru Jan '97. Also has complete contact info for area churches and organizations, including links in some cases, plus links to city, county, and state government agencies.

Kentucky

Central KY: Covington: Kentucky Post: On-line edition. Back issues thru March 97. Includes obituaries.
Central KY: Danville Advocate-Messenger: Danville Advocate-Messenger serves the Central Kentucky counties of Boyle, Lincoln, Mercer, Garrard and Casey. They have obituaries online, and a great History section, including genealogy, civil war, and lots of other goodies. This site is searchable and I found obituaries back to early 1996. They could go even further. Try it!
Central KY: Lexington: Herald-Leader: News from Central and Eastern Kentucky. Online obituaries available back to January 1996. They have an online archive of issues back to 1983!
Caldwell Co.: Princeton: Times-Leader
Clark Co.: Winchester Sun: Site is not searchable, but provides obituaries, news, etc.
Hardin Co.: Elizabethtown: News Enterprise: Standard fare, including obituaries. But there is a great section on Hardin County background that you should find interesting. Site is not searchable.
Mason Co.: Maysville: Ledger-Independent: Lots of historical articles. Take a "virtual tour" of Maysville. Obituaries.
McCracken Co.: Paducah Sun: Covers Western KY and Southern Illinois.
Oldham Co.: LaGrange: Oldham Era
Shelby Co.: Sentinel-News Online: Take a "virtual tour" of Shelbyville. Obituaries are online. They have a nice feature called Looking Back, where they post tidbits from same-day editions from past years. Might find something interesting there!
Taylor Co.: Campbellsville: Central KY News Journal

Massachusetts

Hampshire Co.: Northampton: Hampshire Gazette: Seven days of obituaries online. Site is searchable.

Minnesota

Belle Plaine Herald: Online obituaries back to April 1997.
Minneapolis Star Tribune: Follow the "Metro" link to find the obituaries.
St Paul: Pioneer Press: This newspaper has a daily obituary listing but no archives to search. Site is searchable but returns current obits only.

Missouri

Kansas City: The Star: It appears they only keep obits online for about 2 weeks, so bookmark this one so you can keep checking back. Obits are searchable.

New York

Buffalo: The Buffalo News: Seven days worth of obits online. Site is not searchable.

North Carolina

Mecklenburg Co.: The Charlotte Observer

North Dakota

Bismarck Tribune: Includes birth and death databases, linked from the "Shortcuts" pull-down on the top of the main page.

Pennsylvania

Meadville : The Meadville Tribune: In addition to births and deaths, they have a Genealogy column with queries. You can also submit queries. I am assuming that your queries must have a connection in PA, but that is not stated.

South Dakota

Aberdeen American News On-line: Obituaries are linked in the menu frame. You can search their archives for free, but if you want full text of the articles returned it will cost you. I tried the search and the results usually give you enough information for a citation.

Tennessee

Carter Co.: Elizabethton: Star Online: In addition to obituaries, you'll find marriages and wedding in this online site. Couldn't find a link to back issues.
Cumberland Co.: Crossville Chronicle: You'll find the Obits by following the News link. Also on that page is a link to their Archive, which has obits back to Sept 1996.
Hamilton Co.: Chattanooga Free Press: Some past issues online.
Knox Co.: The Knoxville News-Sentinel: This is the low graphics version. If you want all the bells and whistles that slow you down, you can select the high graphics version once you get there. Limited back issues online.
Rutherford Co.: Murfreesboro: Daily News Journal
Shelby Co.: Memphis: The Commercial Appeal
Williamson Co.: Franklin: The Review Appeal: This site is searchable, but it didn't work when I tried it. In addition to the usual fare, there is a Forum (newsgroup) where you can have topical discussions, and there is a Links page with links to government and civic sites. Site is loaded with Java, so take care.

Texas

Galveston County: Daily News: It looks like they keep about 10 days worth of obituaries online. Site doesn't appear to be searchable.

West Virginia

Charleston: Daily Mail: Search the obituaries from the front page or browse by date for your surnames. They also have a listing of funeral homes in the area, with phone numbers. Handy if you need to look for something too old to be online.
Charlston: Gazette: Archives include obituaries back to Jan 1997. Either browse them by date or use their site search by surname.

Wisconsin

Beloit: Daily News Archives: This newspaper prints death notices, not obituaries. It has a searchable data base that goes back a couple of years. It also has local hospital & court items which may provide information. NOTE: They use Alta Vista to search, which searches the entire web. In order to confine your search to their site you must include "Beloit Daily News" in your search criteria.
Green Bay: News-Chronicle: Includes birth, death, and divorce notices; however there is scant info on any (just name and date). Site is not searchable.
Kenosha County: Kenosha News: Includes very brief death notices. Has a search engine, and searching for "deaths" returns some very old articles (1918 for one) with very complete articles about citizens death circumstances. There aren't many, but they are definitely worthwhile!
La Crosse: Tribune: This newspaper has a daily obituary listing & a very limited archives (back to July 1998). The listing is not always maintained, so sometimes there are several days without any obituaries or news.
Madison: Madison Newspapers: Birth and death notices as well as obituaries.
Milwaukee: Journal Sentinel: This newspaper has a daily obituary & a searchable database. Keying on a name will get more than obituaries if the name appears in regular newspaper items.

Contributors

Several individuals have graciously scoured the Net to find many of the above sites so I want to acknowledge them here: Carl Mobley, Sandi Bruce, Judith Thurston, Richard W Beam, Fred Battles, and an anonymous angel named Dwight.

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