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Saturday Night Genealogy Fun -- Your Best "Genealogy Find" This Week (or Month)

Calling all Genea-Musings Fans: It's  Saturday Night  again Time for some more  Genealogy Fun!! Here is our assignment from Randy Seaver of Genea-Musing : 1)  What was your best "genealogy find" this week (or this month, or this year)?  Was it a new ancestor, a new record, a new conclusion drawn, a new photograph, or something else? 2)  Tell us in your own blog post, in a comment to this blog post, or on Facebook.  Be sure to leave a comment with a link to your blog post on this post. Here's mine: After speaking with a colleague this week, I learned that the applications for patents (inventions) are located at the National Archives (NARA), Kansas City, and the patent assignments paper work are located at NARA, College Park, Maryland. Locating the Patents To prepare for making a request, I attempted to do a patent search online. I found several references to patents for two of my husband’s relatives in documents found on HathiTrust (https...