{"id":4800,"date":"2017-05-23T00:07:29","date_gmt":"2017-05-23T00:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=4800"},"modified":"2017-05-23T00:07:29","modified_gmt":"2017-05-23T00:07:29","slug":"ancestral-clues-and-lessons-rebecca-tinsley-newman-about-1820-1880s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=4800","title":{"rendered":"Ancestral Clues and Lessons: Rebecca (Tinsley) Newman (about 1820-1880s)"},"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\" \/>Rebecca Tinsley (Newman) was born about 1820 in Fleming County, Kentucky, and died (according to her daughter) &#8220;near to Moberly, Missouri,&#8221; in the 1880s. She married William Newman in 1839 in Rush County, Indiana. Some things I&#8217;ve learned about research from Rebecca:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>don&#8217;t assume people with similar names are one person.\u00a0<\/em>Early in my research, a researcher insisted Rebecca Tinsley and a Polly Anna Tinsley were the same person. They weren&#8217;t they were clearly distinct sisters&#8211;because they had different husbands at the same time.<\/li>\n<li><em>some couples are related not just by marriage.<\/em> Rebecca and her husband were both great-great-grandchildren of Edward Tinsley who died in the 1780s in Amherst County, Virginia.<\/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. Rebecca is my 3rd great-grandmother.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rebecca Tinsley (Newman) was born about 1820 in Fleming County, Kentucky, and died (according to her daughter) &#8220;near to Moberly, Missouri,&#8221; in the 1880s. She married William Newman in 1839 in Rush County, Indiana. Some things I&#8217;ve learned about research from Rebecca: don&#8217;t assume people with similar names are one person.\u00a0Early in my research, a [&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":[311,321],"class_list":["post-4800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ancestral-clues-and-lessons","tag-rebecca-tinsley-newman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4800","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=4800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}