We are now able to pull the full text PDF’s from the Hartford Courant and the Historical Hartford Courant from the databases and send them through whatever mechinism, Ariel, fax, US Mail, instead of having to scan from the microfilm! This will greatly speed things up since the citations that we get are usually a bit lean on information. The Historical Courant runs from 1764 to 1982 and the regular Hartford Courant runs from 1992 to the present. Alas, there is a ten year gap where we will need to use the microfilm, but this is so much better than having to deal with all three hundred years on film.
For those libraries that want us to lend the film, if we can get them to tell us what they specifically need copied, we may actually fill more requests. Finding things is very simple. These databases are a wonderful tool for the people doing geneological research who need obituaries, especially if they don’t know the exact date that the obituary appeared.
These two databases can be accessed at: http://library.ccsu.edu/find/articles/articles.php?opt=alphadb&idx=H&type=db
