How To Find Old Obituaries In Florida

One of the main goals for genealogists in searching historic newspapers is to discover obituaries. Obituaries are a gilded mine of data. They provide death dates and locations, funeral and cemetery data, and sometimes more importantly – information almost the relatives of the deceased's family and extended family. This family proper name information is ofttimes not establish anywhere else.

Over the by few decades, thank you to volunteers, librarians, and archivists, a swell number of indexes to death information and obituaries from newspapers have been provided for complimentary online. These searchable indexes or index lists provide the location in former newspapers where the obituary can be institute. Sometimes the obituary clipping or transcription is even provided.

Below is a list of links to Florida obituary indexes, an culling means to newspaper searching to observe obituary information. If the paper clippings are available, or if the obituaries are transcribed, they volition be denoted. Delight exist enlightened that if you find a desired obituary in an index, that the holder of the actual obituary (e.yard., library or genealogical society) may charge a small fee to send you a re-create of the obituary itself.

(Updated Oct 2021; recently added links are in BOLD)

General U.S.

Currentobituary.com index, 2001-2014
Obituary Daily Times Index, 1995-2016
U.South., Selected Jewish Obituaries, 1948-2002
United Methodist Church Annual Conference Periodical Memoirs and Obituary Alphabetize
United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014
United states of america, Obituaries, American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1899-2012

Florida

Bay County Obituaries
Bay Canton Obituary Indexes
Brevard Canton Obituaries
Brevard County Obituaries
Charlotte Canton Miscellaneous Obituaries
Collier County Decease and Obituary Alphabetize
Desoto County Obituaries (clippings and transcriptions)
Duval Canton Obituaries (transcriptions)
Escambia County Obituary Alphabetize
Escambia County Obituary Indexes
Escambia County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
Fernandina Obituary Index
Flagler County Death and Obituary Index
Florida Deaths and Obituaries
Florida GenealogyBuff Obituary Files
Florida Miscellaneous Obituary Records
Florida Obituaries – Obit City
Florida USGenWeb Obituary Project
Fort Meyers Senior High School Obituaries (transcriptions)
Gainesville Sun Obituary Index, 1986-2007
Hardee Canton Obituaries (transcriptions)
Hernando Canton Obituaries
Highlands Canton Obituary Index
Hillsborough County Miscellaneous Obituaries (transcriptions)
Hillsborough County – Tampa Tribune Obituary Alphabetize
Holmes Canton Obituaries (transcriptions)
Indian River County Obituary Index
Indian River Genealogical Guild Obituary Index
Jacksonville Newspaper Indexes
Lake Canton Obituaries
Lee County Expiry and Obituary Index
Lee Canton Obituaries (transcriptions)
Lee County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
Lee County, Florida, Obituary Index, 1930-1997
Marion Canton Obituaries (short transcriptions)
Martin Canton Genealogical Society Death and Obituary Index
Naples Death and Obituary Index
Nassau County Obituaries
Okaloosa County Obituaries (transcriptions)
Orangish County Obituaries
Orange Canton Library System Epoch Legacies
Orlando Obituary Index, 1949-1991
Osceola County Miscellaneous Obituaries (transcriptions)
Palm Beach County Death and Obituary Alphabetize
Palm Beach County Obituary Alphabetize
Palm Beach Post Paper Alphabetize to Obituaries, 1980 through 1989
Panama Metropolis News-Herald Obituary Indexes 1997-98
Pasco County Death and Obituary Alphabetize
Pasco Canton Obituaries (transcriptions)
Pasco County Obituaries (transcriptions)
Pasco County Obituary Index
Pinellas County Obituary Alphabetize
Pinellas County, Miscellaneous Obituaries, 1972-1992
Pinellas Death and Obituary Index
Polk Canton Death and Obituary Index 1881-1960
Santa Rosa Canton Obituary Indexes
Sarasota County Decease and Obituary Alphabetize
Petrograd Times Decease and Obituary Alphabetize
Sumter County Obituaries (transcriptions)
Sumter County Obituaries and Death Notices (transcriptions)
Tallahassee Democrat Obituary Alphabetize – August 3, 1997 – January 28, 1998
Vero Beach Press Journal Obituary Index 1996
Walton County Obituaries (transcriptions)
Wintertime Oasis Herald Obituary Index

If you wish to search this state'due south celebrated newspapers for obituaries, click onFlorida Online Historical Newspapers Summary

Good Luck and Happy Hunting!

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