Look up your ancestor's last name in the Surname Index. Note: these files are very large, it may take some time to download, depending on your download speed. Please be patient.

If you know the year of the death of your ancestor, check the following listings to find out which of these newspapers to search for your ancestor!  Clicking on the year will bring up a PDF file that you can search for your ancestor.

Once you have found a promising entry in the Death Notices, it will tell you where we found the record so you can search at that location. (Note: we do not have the St. Joseph newspapers at our Library, but the St. Joseph, MO, Public Library has microfilm copies of most of them.)  We can look them up for you.

These are PDF files. You will need Adobe Reader or a similar file reader to read them. If you don't have Adobe, you can download it here.

After you open the file, Use Ctrl+ F to search for a name.