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Online resources

• See United States Newspapers for more databases
• 1700s Connecticut Newspapers in the Eighteenth Century(*) by Jarvis Means Morse, 1899 at FamilySearch Catalog - images only
• 1791-2009 Connecticut Newspapers, 1791-2009 at MyHeritage - index & images ($)
• 1800-Current Connecticut, U.S., Newspapers.com™.com Stories and Events Index, 1800's-current at Ancestry — index & images ($)
• 1800s-1999 U.S., Newspapers.com Marriage Index, 1800s-1999 at Ancestry - index ($)
• Connecticut Newspapers
• Connecticut Newspapers Online
• Connecticut Online Historical Newspapers
• List of Newspapers in Connecticut at Wikipedia
• Names and Stories in Newspapers from OldNews.com (New York, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Connecticut) at MyHeritage — index & images ($)
• Newspaper Archive ($)
• The Press of Connecticut - Newspapers at portal.ct.gov
• List of Online Newspaper Archives at Wikipedia; has links to the online newspapers.
• NewspaperArchive ($) has a collection of digitized Connecticut newspapers (mostly Bridgeport and Naugatuck) online. This database is sometimes free at libraries. It may be under the name Access NewspaperArchive.
• Connecticut Newspapers at Onlinenewspapers.com. Online newspaper links for the state of Connecticut.
• Connecticut Newspapers at Connecticut Genealogy. Links to newspapers throughout Connecticut.
• U.S. Newspaper Directory, 1690-Present of Library of Congress of over 140,000 newspaper titles. The directory provides a list of libraries from around the country that have the newspapers in their collections.

Information about Newspapers

A resource for information about Connecticut newspapers is:

• Connecticut Newspapers, at the Connecticut State Library

Indexes

• Marriage and death notices published in Connecticut newspapers for the period 1796 to 1865 have been indexed in the Charles R. Hale Collection.

• The Hartford Times published a genealogical queries section at various times from 1901 to 1967. Indexes to surnames and copies of clippings for some years are at the FamilySearch Library on 9 FS Library films beginning with 1421780. This is listed in the FamilySearch Catalog under CONNECTICUT - GENEALOGY.
• The Hartford Times, 1957-1967 Surname Index compiled by Earl G. Darby on 75 microfiche beginning with 6016206

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