HI Mark  I use the Hartford Courant papers online from home several days a week--but they don't have very many local articles on places outside Greater Hartford unless they are related to very serious events or famous people. The old papers had even less since they didn't have any way to get the info quickly from the outer towns. Putnam and Norwich are not even commonly in the obits now and I suspect they would have been there even loss in the old papers.   That said--a big fire, serious accident, etc are often covered but rarely do we see vital records info in the Courant--and I have read it everyday for 50 years!!!.   Barb --- On Sun, 5/10/09, Mark Lefler <markl8@optonline.net> wrote: The Hartford Current would have adequately covered Putnam and Norwich. Mark