Old family photos, do you think this is the same person?

[gerberadaisy]

Originally Posted by Elibellamiah

Interesting. Some of them look so familiar to me, but maybe it's just because I've seen the pictures so many different times. I wish someone had written something on this one other than family reunion.

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How about these:
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Don't know who, but they all look like they could be the same person, especially the first two.

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My great grandfather in the middle. He did have several brothers though. I took the baby picture out of a little frame that was falling apart and discovered a hidden mother.


My Great-great grandmother in the middle, also named Mary of course.

I think the top three boys/men could be the same person. Not sure about the rest.

I have one of those families where every child has a child with the parents name so there are at least 20 or so Nicholas', Sarah's, & a few Elias'. This & another line (married into this one) is where I got my son's name - Elias.

[ReedleBeetle]

Top 4 pictures I think are all the same boy most likely.

I think the 3 of the other boy (the set where you said the middle is your great grandfather) are likely all the same person, but it is possible it is just familial resemblance.

I am really unsure about the women, but I can see resemblance between them.

[Littledisciples]

Those are so cool. I think you matched them up quite well. What a treasure to have though. too bad no one labeled them before.

[arelyn]

My laptop screen has issues so I could be wrong but I think in the row of three little boys the boy on the far right has hanging earlobes while the boy in the middle has attached earlobes.

Also on ears, the young woman on the left appears to have a very different shape to the inside of the ear (the shadow is a long oval) while the two other women have a very similar shape (the shadow is more triangular). Her hair appears to be pushing on her ear though so this could be altering the shape.

[Elibellamiah]

Interesting observation about the ear lobes. I'll have to look at later pictures of my great grandfather and see if his earlobes were attached or not.

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Here is another picture I'm wondering about. Someone posted this on Ancestry claiming it's my 4th great grandfather. He lived from 1804 to 1857. I'm very skeptical. I'm thinking, for one thing, that is an extreme amount of white hair for someone who is 54 years old or younger, and I'm also questioning whether that picture could have been taken in the 1850s. The type of photograph wasn't available yet, although it could be a reprint. I don't know style well enough to tell what time period the clothing and hair styles are from. Any ideas?
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And one more thing I've been curious about but don't know where to ask.

I know people used to take postmortem pictures, do you think these children were alive? They don't look right to me but they don't really look dead either. The way the picture is marked up it looks like it was kept in frame only showing the two sickly looking kids.

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