{"id":6756,"date":"2017-06-08T14:07:11","date_gmt":"2017-06-08T19:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=6756"},"modified":"2017-06-08T15:27:07","modified_gmt":"2017-06-08T20:27:07","slug":"dont-look-at-just-the-will","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2017\/06\/08\/dont-look-at-just-the-will\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Look at Just the Will"},"content":{"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 of all the receipts and disbursements that provided more information on a few of the children and better glimpse into the family&#8217;s financial state.<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-6757\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/tinsley-estate-1817.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"370\" height=\"137\" 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: 370px) 100vw, 370px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Genealogy Tip of the Day<\/em> is proudly sponsored by\u00a0<em>GenealogyBank. <\/em>Try their \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/gbnk\/?utm_source=9378&amp;utm_medium=gbhp_text&amp;utm_campaign=affil&amp;kbid=9378&amp;m=3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">GenealogyBank Search<\/a>\u201d and see what discoveries you make.<\/p>\n","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":153978,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6756","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\/153978"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}