{"id":32633,"date":"2026-04-05T10:16:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T15:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=32633"},"modified":"2026-04-06T10:19:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T15:19:16","slug":"dont-look-at-just-the-will-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/05\/dont-look-at-just-the-will-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t Look at Just the Will"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The early-19th century will of John Tinsley in Amherst County, Virginia, clearly indicated which child was to receive which piece of property. This was located early in my research when I did not know too much about records. For years I only used the will in my research. Later I discovered there was an accounting of all the receipts and disbursements that provided more information on a few of the children and better glimpse into the family\u2019s financial state.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"910\" height=\"336\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/tinsley-estate-1817.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6757\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/tinsley-estate-1817.jpg 910w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/tinsley-estate-1817-300x111.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/tinsley-estate-1817-768x284.jpg 768w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/tinsley-estate-1817-624x230.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 910px) 100vw, 910px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The early-19th century will of John Tinsley in Amherst County, Virginia, clearly indicated which child was to receive which piece of property. This was located early in my research when I did not know too much about records. For years I only used the will in my research. Later I discovered there was an accounting [&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-32633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32633","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=32633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}