Vince, Thanks for telling us about this search engine. I found an ancestor and I also found a full page on my brother. Wow!!! Elaine ----- Original Message ----- From: Vincent E. Summers<mailto:vsummers@gmail.com> To: philly-roots@rootsweb.com<mailto:philly-roots@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 3:03 PM Subject: [Phly-Rts] Google's Patent Search Engine Folks, Thanks to Jane Hamilton, I have been more closely examining Google's sub search engines, which research material that is not apparently covered by Google's main engine. Hense, I discovered their Patent Search engine. This searches the U.S. Patents! Now in case you never thought of the possibility, likely many of you have someone in your family who came up with ideas they patented. I have at least two who did - distant, but connected. One line is relevant to Philadelphia - the AYRES family who were into the Horse Blanket business. In case you are interested, the URL is: http://www.google.com/patents<http://www.google.com/patents> Vince ********* Visit the threaded archives of this list: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/PHILLY-ROOTS<http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/PHILLY-ROOTS> ********* ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PHILLY-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com<mailto:PHILLY-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com> with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message