You’ve heard about The Hartford Courant and The New Haven Register. But how do you identify the smaller newspapers that might have covered your ancestor’s day to day life?
The Connecticut State Library has a resource that can help. It allows you to enter a town name and range of years. It will return a list of newspapers published in that town, followed by regional newspapers likely to cover the area. It’s a great starting point for identifying smaller papers.
Once you’ve identified the correct newspaper, you may have to do some digging to be able to access it. (There’s no central online repository for newspapers.) Some newspapers are available through Newspapers.com, particularly the Courant. Some smaller papers are available on Chronicling America. If you still can’t find the paper online, the State Library should have access to any paper in the finding tool.
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