Obituaries are notices of a deceased, usually
placed in newspapers by funeral homes, or members of the deceased's
family. The obituary traditionaly can include valuable information,
such as date of death and names of close family members. This
page provides links to California obituaries, death records, California
obituary databases and other California genealogy resources
Large Obituary Databases
There are some sites on the internet that have large obituary
databases from many sources and often, because of their size
can provide a search box to quickly find the obituary for
which you may be searching
Funeralnet.com
- has a searchable database of US obituaries
Legacy.com
Search for obituaries and Guest Books from
over 175 Legacy.com-affiliated newspapers across the United
States
 Newspaper
Obituary Database - search
over 100 newspapers at Ancestry.com
 
Obituary
Daily Times - a searchable database of over 9 million newspaper
obituaries
ObitsArchive.com
- archives of death notices and obituaries
from hundreds of newspapers
California Obituaries
Databases of obituaries from many newspapers typically may
contain the following information: date of death, age at death,
newspaper name, date of paper and page of citation. Some sites
may even have scanned original California obituaries and provided
them online.
California
Newspapers & Obituary Help - at AncestorHunt.com,
this site has a large collection links to newspaper obituaries
California
Obituaries - database of archived newspaper obituaries
and obituaries contributed by members, maintained by US GenWeb
Archives
Directory
of California Obituaries and Newspaper Links
transcription of over 250,000 obituaries as provided by researchers
Obits Index - California
recent obituaries of individuals born in California.
Other California Genealogy Resources
I have included these additional genealogy sites because
they may contain California obituaries and other online vital
records that you may find useful in your research.
Census Diggins census, marriage and military records
online
Cyndi's List
- Obituaries large collection of links
to Obituaries, indexed in alphabetical order
California Vital Records
how to obtain copies
of birth certificates, marriage licenses, divorce decrees
and death records
California Genealogy Links
- censuses, cemeteries, marriages, passenger
lists, obituaries online for California
Family Tree Searcher
- Enter ancestor information just once to search
ancestry at multiple online genealogy databases
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