{"id":9098,"date":"2019-08-15T13:30:31","date_gmt":"2019-08-15T13:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=9098"},"modified":"2019-08-15T13:30:33","modified_gmt":"2019-08-15T13:30:33","slug":"uncle-bertus-witnesses-a-patent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=9098","title":{"rendered":"Uncle Bertus Witnesses a Patent"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\nI&#8217;ve mentioned the US Patents database at Google before (<a href=\"http:\/\/patents.google.com\/\">http:\/\/patents.google.com\/<\/a>). I made at least one very minor discovery today on this database and I&#8217;m thinking that the search or something has been tweaked since I looked at it several years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"342\" height=\"259\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/b_j_ufkes_witnesses_patent.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9099\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/b_j_ufkes_witnesses_patent.jpg 342w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/b_j_ufkes_witnesses_patent-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 342px) 100vw, 342px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the names I search for in virtually every database is Ufkes. It is my mother&#8217;s maiden name and there were only two pre-1900 immigrant families with that last name that settled in the United States and that last name is pretty unusual.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I know I searched the patent database for Ufkes before and didn&#8217;t find anything. Today I did .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>B[ertus]. J. Ufkes witnessed a patent applied for by Anders O. Hammer of Williams, Montana. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"181\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/level_patent.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9100\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/level_patent.jpg 400w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/level_patent-300x136.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\n\nThe application was filed 22 April 1916. If I hadn&#8217;t know that Bertus was in Montana at that time, the patent, even though it was not issued in his name, would have been a clue.\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve mentioned the US Patents database at Google before (http:\/\/patents.google.com\/). I made at least one very minor discovery today on this database and I&#8217;m thinking that the search or something has been tweaked since I looked at it several years ago. One of the names I search for in virtually every database is Ufkes. It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}