Family History Learning Community

Once in Ancestry, click the "Search" tab, and then choose "Card Catalog." Do a title search for "United States Obituary Collection" or you can do a keyword search for "obituaries" to see all the various obituary collections available.

For recent obituaries: Full-text articles from a large collection of contemporary newspapers, including The New York Times, The Times (London), and The Wall Street Journal. Dates of coverage vary by newspaper. There is a link for obituaries only at the top if you want to narrow your search from the start.

Contains articles from historical newspapers around the U.S. and the world. You can browse by state and then by city to find relevant papers to search.

Newspapers published in the United States between 1690 and 2000. Searchable by date range, era in US history, place of publication, and article type as well as by keyword.

Full-text from The Atlanta Constitution (1896-1945), Chicago Defender (1910-1975), Los Angeles Times (1881-1987), New York Amsterdam News (1922-1993), and The New York Times (1851-2007).