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How to Search For and Find Obituaries

By Senior Daily Staff Last Updated Tuesday, January 9, 2024 11:24 am

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With a regular internet browser you can search through millions of death records and find online obituaries and more information about deceased friends and family members.   Two of the best websites that provide free access to online obituaries and other death records are Legacy and FindAGrave.

Browse Obituaries at Legacy

If you want to find recent obituaries or browse recent obituaries by location, then you should visit the Legacy website.

Legacy.com is the global leader in online obituaries.  Legacy’s database includes recent obituaries from its worldwide partnership with 1,500 partner newspapers and 3,500 funeral homes. Legacy is your best source for recent obituaries but Legacy does not maintain an historical archive of obituaries – for that, you should try FindAGrave as detailed below.

Legacy allows you to browse their database of obituaries at no charge, and without registering an account.  To start, visit:

Legacy Obituaries – View Obituaries by location 

Select your state, then click on a city or county to immediately start browsing obituaries, sorted with the most recent obituaries listed first.  Once you have the page you want, you may want to save it as a bookmark so you can check back regularly for new obituaries.  You can also click “Get Updates” and enter your email address to be notified of new obituaries for that location as they are published.

If you want to search the entire obituary database for a specific person or group of persons, follow these steps:

Visit the Legacy.com Search Page

And then:

  1. Enter whatever information you have on the person whose obituary you want to find.  First Name, Last Name, State, City and Date Range. You do not need to fill out all fields, just enter what you know.  Then click Search.
  2. If you get too many results, you can filter by date or location.

Free Burial Information and Obituaries

Another free source for information about deceased persons is Find a Grave, a subsidiary of Ancestry.  Find A Grave provides access to its database of cemetery records and death records maintained by more than a million volunteers.  It can provide important details like death date, funeral home, place of burial (often with a photo of the headstone), a copy of the obituary, names of those who left flowers at the funeral, and a list of deceased family members, with direct links to their own death records.

Unlike Legacy, FindAGrave has records going back hundreds of years.  To try it:

  1. Go to the Find A Grave website and enter what information you have about a person (name, data of birth, date of death etc).  If there is a match, you should get back a photo of the gravestone and burial site.  Click on the person’s name for more details, including an obituary, cemetery name, cemetery location, and a list of family members.
  2. You can click on the list of family members to find their own death information, if available, so FindAGrave can be a valuable source of genealogical information.

To perform a grave search, visit:

https://www.findagrave.com/

You won’t need to register, just start searching right away.

More About Obituaries

You can find more resources at Legacy.Com such as:

  • How to Write an Obituary
  • Writing Your Own Obituary
  • How to Find an Obituary
  • Video Funerals 
  • How to Pre-Plan a Funeral
  • Latest Celebrity Obituaries

About Legacy.Com (from company website)

Legacy.com is the place where the world pauses to embrace the power of a life well-lived. We believe that a single life story can provide extraordinary inspiration, even after that person has died. So we champion every life, knowing it can connect us in unexpected, powerful ways.

Today, Legacy.com is the global leader in online obituaries, a top-50 website in the United States, and a destination for over 40 million unique visitors each month around the world. Founded in 1998, Legacy.com is honored to serve users by partnering with more than 1,500 newspapers and 3,500 funeral homes across the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and Europe. These partnerships provide easy ways for consumers to express condolences, share direct support for families, and celebrate the people who have touched their lives.

Legacy.com’s partners benefit from our unparalleled scale, which enables continuous innovation of our industry-leading obituary products and accompanying cross-platform e-commerce engine. Legacy.com is a privately held company headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, with additional offices in Burbank, California and London, England.

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