I found that my great-grandfather’s cousin has two patents issued in the mid-1900s. One for a fish hook remover U.S. Patent 2907134 and one for a feed trough device (2576154). My search was done by entering the words
trautvetter warsaw
in the search box.
Since the town of residence is usually included in the patent it would be an excellent search term to enter in addition to the name, especially for genealogists using this site.
Michael
Google appears to be allowing full-text search on US patents.
On it’s site about the search Google indicates it has indexed patents from the 1790s and on. My intial searches indicates it is searching all the text except for any text written into the images.
The patents can be searched here.
Why do I always learn about these things late at night when I should be sleeping?
I see that Ancestry.com has extended their offer of free access to their massive passenger list collection - through the end of the year. If you haven’t done a thorough search for your ancestor’s passenger list entries, now would be a good time. I just located the list for my great-grandmother’s immigration in 1849 on […]
Ancestry.com has announced that it has added to its online service all readily available U.S. passenger lists from 1820 to 1960. Wow! This is a lot of data. I’m not surprised, as I spent days reviewing the immigration digital data sites at Ancestry.com for the Sept-Oct issue of the Net Family History section in the […]
PROVO, Utah, Oct. 24 /PRNewswire/ — Looking for invitees for this year’s Halloween party? For a spooky selection, look no further than the U.S. and UK census collections on Ancestry.com. As the world’s largest online family history resource, Ancestry.com is the only source for the complete digitized and indexed U.S. Federal Census collection from 1790 […]
The following News Release is new from Ancestry.com:
Since End of July - 49.7 Million Names, 278,000 Family Trees, 119,500 Photos and 2.8 Million Family History Records Attached
PROVO, Utah, Oct. 17 /PRNewswire/ — To mark Family History Month, Ancestry.com, the world’s largest family history website, today announced that the newly redesigned Ancestry.com website has experienced a […]
There’s an intersting article about the success of Ancestry,and their current innovations in the October 9, 2006 edition of the New York Times technolgy section. Following is an excerpt.
GENEALOGY sites have long helped their customers reconnect with long-dead ancestors. Now, in keeping with the social networking trend, some of these sites are trying to connect […]
The following announcement was just posted on the Roots-L mailing list. I’m passing it on to my readers.
I’m very excited to be able to offer exclusive free access to two of Ancestry.com’s databases. This offer is only available to visitors of Olive Tree Genealogy, and is made possible through a co-operative effort of OliveTreeGenealogy.com and […]
You don’t often see reviews of Ancestry.com. Sure - you hear complaints and even some praise now and then. But the actual reviews of the site are few and far between. Following is a teaser from a review written by Walter S. Mossberg and Katherine Boehret for the Wall Street Journal.
Drawing up a family […]
Ancestry.com has posted a new database that indexes digital images of birth, marriage, and death notices from the newspapers of the following seven major U.S. cities:
The Atlanta Constitution (1869-1929)
The Boston Globe (1872-1923)
The Chicago Defender (Big Weekend and National Editions) (1921-1975)
The Chicago Tribune (1850-1985)
The Hartford Courant (1791-1942)
The Los Angeles Times (1881-1985)
The New York Times (1851-2003)
The Washington […]
I happen to be a great fan of city directories. Granted, they usually dont include vital records, but they do a great job of placing our ancestors in a specific place at a specific time.
Ancestry.com has the largest collection of digitized city directories available online. However, I have found it difficult to locate just the […]
Ancestry.com has posted many city and county directories for England and Wales - all in digital format, allowing the researcher to see the orginal pages, not just an index or abstract. Since I found it difficult to locate specific digital directories within Ancestry, I compiled this portal of ONLY DIGITAL BRITISH CITY, & PHONE DIRECTORIES […]
Prompted by an item posted by Dick Eastman last week, dealing with Massachusetts deaths, I spent a few hours on the Massachusetts State Archives website today. The website includes three important databases. Those databases are:
INDEX TO MASSACHUSETTS DEATHS 1847 TO 1910. Although this database is titled Index to Vital Records, it currently only includes […]
Prompted by an item on Juliana Smith’s Ancestry Weekly Journal, I stopped and took a look at some of the new resources posted by Ancestry.com in the last few days. It seems that on August 24, Ancestry.com posted 301 new items, including many books that I’m familiar with. In running through the list, I […]
At one time, the U.S. Federal Census included a mortality schedule enumerating the individuals who had died in the previous year. These documents exist for the years 1850 through 1880. Although many of the original documents reside in various archives, a good number have been microfilmed and are available through NARA - and now of […]
The following is a teaser from an extensive article written by Jackie Burrell. I found the article to be revealing and of interest to me - as a Genealogist.
IT SOUNDS like a script for a Hollywood movie or some new reality show — a granite vault stacked with precious books and more than a million […]
Ancestry.com has released a fair amount of celebrity genealogy data in the process of promoting their latest successes in the digitization and indexing of the U.S. Census Records. Following are a few teasers from an article published at Discovery.com yesterday. Note that it’s also mentioned that Ancestry is digitizing ship passenger lists.
George W. Bush and […]
It looks to me like the Brits are more interested in “truth in advertising” than Americans. It seems to me like the more outrageous the ad, the better we like it. Must have something to do with rebellion and all that… Anyway, Ancestry.co.uk got called on the carpet about their advertising. Seems they lost on […]
As I mentioned in a post earlier today, I find that I use both Ancestry.com as well as HeritageQuest Online when doing census research. There a several reasons for this.
First - the digitizing was done by two totally different companies. A little history might be in line here. I was working for Heritage Quest when […]
Following is an excerpt from an article that fills in a few more details about Ancestry.com’s census project. They are getting a lot of much-deserved good press out of the release of the 1910 every-name index. I was on Ancestry’s site until into the morning hours this morning working on Hubbard genealogy. Having access to […]