Newspapers & Obituaries

NEWSPAPERS and OBITUARIES

HANDY TOOLS

NEWSPAPERS

Frederick County

Old News Abstracts - 1751 to early 1900's
Frederick County & Surrounding areas
Emmitsburg Chronicle - Emmitsburg
& Carroll Record - Taneytown - 1879-1977
Holdcraft-Linton Obituary Collection - 1932 to present
(How to Obtain Copies of Obits)
Frederick News-Post - from July 10, 1998

Carroll County

Carroll County Times - Archives - 1911-2016

Carroll County Times - from 2000

Washington County

Historic Newspaper Indexing Project - 1790-1890
(Index to Articles)
Obituary Locator - 1790-2019
(Index only, but can order copy)
Herald-Mail - Washington County - from 2013

Montgomery County

Patch - Rockville - Sep 2011 - present

Montgomery-Herald - last 30 days

Maryland

Online Digitized Newspapers (MSA) - 1728-1956

MD GenWeb Archives

Pennsylvania

PA Newspapers - 1847-1874

Public Opinion - Chambersburg, PA - from 1998

Herald Record - Waynesboro, PA - from 2001

Evening Sun - Hanover, PA - from Oct 2003

Gettysburg Times - Gettysburg, PA - past month

West Virginia

Spirit of Jefferson - Charlestown, WV - past few months

The Journal - Martinsburg, WV - past 10 days

Virginia
Loudoun Times-Mirror - 2010 - present

LoudounNow - past 30 days

Nationwide

Old Newspapers from Library of Congress - 1777-1963

Tributes - before 1951 to present (birth & death dates only)
Legacy - 2000 to present
The Morehead News - 2011 - present

FUNERAL HOMES

Frederick County
Keeney & Basford - Frederick
Resthaven - Frederick
Gary L. Rollins - Frederick
Stauffer - Frederick / Thurmont / Walkersville / Mt Airy / Brunswick
D.B. Thompson - Middletown
Hartzler - Woodsboro / Liberty / Union Bridge / New Windsor

Carroll County

Black's - Westminster / Thurmont
Myers-Durboraw - Westminster / Taneytown / Emmitsburg
Fletcher - Westminster
Pritts - Westminster

Eline - Hampstead / Finksburg / Reisterstown
Eckhardt - Manchester / Owings Mills
Burrier-Queen - Winfield
Haight - Sykesville
Zunbrun - Sykesville

Washington County

J L Davis - Smithsburg
Bast-Stauffer - Boonesboro

Andrew K. Coffman - Hagerstown
Douglas A. Fiery - Hagerstown
Potomac Valley & Harman - Hagerstown
Minnich - Hagerstown
Rest Haven - Hagerstown

D.E. Thompson - Clear Spring
Osborne - Williamsport

Montgomery County

Molesworth-Williams - Damascus
Roy W Barber - Laytonsville
Hilton's - Barnesville
De Vol - Gaithersburg / Washington, DC
Pumphrey - Bethesda / Chevy Chase / Rockville
Collins - Silver Spring
Hines-Rinaldi - Silver Spring

Pennsylvania

Little's - Littlestown
Monahan - Gettysburg
Peters - Gettysburg
Feiser - New Oxford & East Berlin
Murphy - McSherrystown
Kenworthy - Hanover & Gettysburg
Wetzel - Hanover
Panebaker - Hanover

Grove-Bowersox - Waynesboro
Geisel - Chambersburg
Kelso-Cornelius - Chambersburg
Dugan - Shippensburg

West Virginia

Eackles-Spencer & Norton - Harpers Ferry
Melvin T. Strider Colonial - Ranson

Brown - Martinsburg
Helsley-Johns - Berkeley Springs

Virginia

Hall - Purcellville

Loudoun Funeral Chapel - Leesburg
Colonial - Leesburg

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Last revised August 14, 2026