{"id":8536,"date":"2018-06-18T15:16:50","date_gmt":"2018-06-18T20:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=8536"},"modified":"2018-06-18T15:16:50","modified_gmt":"2018-06-18T20:16:50","slug":"buyers-at-estate-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2018\/06\/18\/buyers-at-estate-sales\/","title":{"rendered":"Buyers at Estate Sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When in a pinch, lists of purchasers at estate sales can provide clues as to ancestral associates and relatives. Individuals who purchased the property of your deceased relative likely knew him.<\/p>\n<p>I usually focus initially on any person who purchased more than two items as a potential relative or &#8220;close connection.&#8221; Those people may have lived where your ancestor used to live or ended up moving where later members of the family moved to.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll follow up on the ones who purchased one item as well, but starting with the purchasers of more items is a good way to start.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/charles-neill-sarah-newman-sale.jpg\" width=\"859\" height=\"603\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When in a pinch, lists of purchasers at estate sales can provide clues as to ancestral associates and relatives. Individuals who purchased the property of your deceased relative likely knew him. I usually focus initially on any person who purchased more than two items as a potential relative or &#8220;close connection.&#8221; Those people may have [&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-8536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8536","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=8536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}