City of Oak Ridge Library Obituary Index

Sources

Oak Ridge Journal from September 1943 to January 1949. The Oak Ridger from January 1949 to within a month of the current date

COVERAGE

Obituaries, death notices and some news articles have been indexed. Most obituaries are for the Tennessee counties of Anderson, Knox, and Roane.

AVAILABILITY

Paper and microfilm images are available at the Oak Ridge Public Library. Obituaries appearing in The Oak Ridger after February 1997 are available through America’s News.

SEARCH TIPS

The LAST NAME field is a “contains” search. Any letters typed in the LAST NAME box will search all records for last names which contains those letters. The rest of the fields have a filter which can be used to narrow your search. Type your criteria into the box, click on the filter icon (funnel) and choose your filter type.

REPORTING ERRORS

Please use e-mail to report any errors to Oak Ridge Public Library Reference Services (reference@oakridgetn.gov).

How to search You can use a combination of these fields by putting data in each search box.

You can Sort each field by clicking on the title of the column. Click once to sort A-Z, click again to sort Z-A.

The data will update after a few seconds of no input from the user. filter can be added after the data has updated and then will update again.

FIRST NAME defaults to Contains, some other useful filters are Does Not Contain, Starts With and Equal To. DATE OF DEATH, and PUBLICATION DATE default to Equal To, other useful filters are Greater Than and Less Than.

To search by date of death or date of publication, use the date picker or type a date in the format "mm/dd/yyyy" and press enter or use the filter icon to search a range of dates.

All filters can be applied at the same time. To start over, click the "Reset Filters" button.