Fresno California East FamilySearch Center/Finding Obituaries

Check our [Historical Newspapers] site. Here are a few other sites that help with finding obituaries.
 * 1) Ancestry's Obituary Collection - subscription required but available free at the FHC through the database portal
 * 2) Genealogy Bank's Obituaries - subscription required
 * 3) Obituary Daily Times - an index only, no obituaries
 * 4) Obituaries Help - From the “Obituaries Resources Tab, ” scroll down to ‘Online Obituaries Resources’ and click on "Old Obituaries Archives."
 * 5) Ancestor Hunt - - broken down by state
 * 6) Obituary Depot
 * 7) Obits Archive - mostly current obits (1980s+) - a search is free, but there is a charge for the actual obituary
 * 8) Obit Finder - fee based
 * 9) Newspaper Digitization Projects - not for obituaries, but to help find digitized newspapers
 * 10) U.S. News Archives on the Web - again, help for finding digitized newspapers
 * 11) Obituary Lookups - volunteers willing to look up obits

Collections geared toward specific groups: Make sure you're looking for the records in the right place by checking maps of the time period. Also check the "Handybook for Genealogists" or "Redbook" for state or county line boundary changes. You can find some helpful links on our Geographic Resources page."
 * 1) Ryerson Index - Australian obituaries
 * 2) Jewish Genealogy - obituaries and burial index (free at Ancestry.com)
 * 3) The Odessa Collection - has obituaries of Germans from Russia that settled in the North and South Dakota areas
 * 4) Methodist's Obituary Index
 * 5) Seventh-day Adventist Periodical Index
 * 6) Mennonite Publications Indexes
 * 7) United Brethren Obituary Index - many with transcripts or clipping
 * 8) US National Fallen Firefighters Memorial Database
 * 9) The Officer Down Memorial Page - Law Enforcement Database