{"id":4790,"date":"2017-05-21T20:25:18","date_gmt":"2017-05-21T20:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=4790"},"modified":"2017-05-21T20:25:18","modified_gmt":"2017-05-21T20:25:18","slug":"ancestral-clues-and-lessons-william-newman-about-1818-1880s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=4790","title":{"rendered":"Ancestral Clues and Lessons: William Newman (about 1818-1880s)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4791\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/1870-william-newman-300x94.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"94\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/1870-william-newman-300x94.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/1870-william-newman-768x241.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/1870-william-newman.jpg 945w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>William Newman was born about 1818 in Kentucky most likely in the Bourbon County area and died in the 1880s (according to his daughter Nancy) &#8220;near to Moberly, Missouri.&#8221; He married Rebecca Tinsley in 1839 in Rush County, Indiana. Some things I&#8217;ve learned about research from William:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Some people are movers<\/em>. William and his wife are not in the same location in any federal census enumeration from 1840 in Rush County, Indiana, through their death in the 1880s.<\/li>\n<li><em>People can buy property where they never live<\/em>. William purchased a forty-acre piece federal land in Tipton County, Indiana. There is no evidence that the family ever lived in Tipton County.<\/li>\n<li><em>Older adults may move where they know no one<\/em>. In their fifties, William and Rebecca moved to an area of Missouri where they had no known relatives.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?page_id=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?page_id%3D2&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1494697894038000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEf9g_7pi4nxUPTyRY1p0WsWwDZfg\">My ancestor table<\/a> can be viewed on my site. William is my 3rd great-grandfather.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William Newman was born about 1818 in Kentucky most likely in the Bourbon County area and died in the 1880s (according to his daughter Nancy) &#8220;near to Moberly, Missouri.&#8221; He married Rebecca Tinsley in 1839 in Rush County, Indiana. Some things I&#8217;ve learned about research from William: Some people are movers. William and his wife [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[311],"class_list":["post-4790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ancestral-clues-and-lessons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}