{"id":28296,"date":"2025-08-14T06:24:02","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T11:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=28296"},"modified":"2025-08-14T06:24:03","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T11:24:03","slug":"a-hammer-nippers-plates-sifter-and-a-pair-of-scissors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/14\/a-hammer-nippers-plates-sifter-and-a-pair-of-scissors\/","title":{"rendered":"A Hammer, Nippers, Plates, Sifter, and a Pair of Scissors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/enoch-tinsley-buys-at-sale-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"589\" height=\"497\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/enoch-tinsley-buys-at-sale-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-28304\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/enoch-tinsley-buys-at-sale-1.jpg 589w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/enoch-tinsley-buys-at-sale-1-300x253.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 589px) 100vw, 589px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In August of 1823, Enoch Tinsley purchased several items at the estate sale of Spencer Reeves in Fleming County, Kentucky. While it&#8217;s interesting to see what Enoch purchased and it offers some insight into his day-to-day life, there are a few other genealogy clues it gives us:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Enoch was alive on 11 August 1823.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Enoch must have lived relatively near Spencer Reeves property (assuming the sale was held there). <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Enoch probably lived near the others listed as purchasing items at the sale. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Just how significant of a genealogical clue those items are depends upon what I know about Enoch. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But as a caveat, if there were more than one Enoch, it may be difficult to tell just from this reference to which Enoch this purchaser list is referring. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/conta.cc\/3JcXYfm\">Join me for an AI or US Probate Records Class<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In August of 1823, Enoch Tinsley purchased several items at the estate sale of Spencer Reeves in Fleming County, Kentucky. While it&#8217;s interesting to see what Enoch purchased and it offers some insight into his day-to-day life, there are a few other genealogy clues it gives us: Just how significant of a genealogical clue those [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153979,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153979"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}