New picture of Britta's family

This is a picture of Margaret Flynn Reinier, who was Britta Ann Green's daughter by Mike Flynn. I think she's very pretty.

It's twoo! It's twoo! DNA pwooves it!

Britta Ann Green is my great-great-great grandmother. DNA proves it!!!

It's always been a mystery whether Britta was truly an ancestor. John L. McGuire was quite the rascal, and Great-great grandmother Mary Drucilla's death certificate listed "Georgia Smith" as her mother.

"Georgia" was a mistake.

John L. was true...this time, anyway.

DNA triangulation with cousins who could have matched only if we shared Britta as a common ancestor proved the connection.

Thanks, J. & S.!

This is big, big news!

Yayayayayaayay!!

The other women in the newest Britta picture

Check out the picture of Britta Ann Green Flynn here and from the previous post. There are two young women on either side of her. From the fashions that those women are wearing, I've dated this first picture to about 1917. 

Now take a look at the picture below:

Note the high neckline and the cinched waists. To see similar young ladies' fashions, look at this link, which contains an illustration from a 1908 dress pattern:

http://sensibility.com/blog/blog/reproducing-1912-fashions-remember-titanic/

Which dates the picture to around 1908 - 1912. 

More importantly, can you see the women's resemblance between the first picture (ca. 1917) and  the second picture (ca. 1910)?

The second (ca. 1910) picture has positively been identified as Carrie Drusilla Edins and Bessie Beatrice Edins. Carrie Drusilla Edins was born in 1896. Bessie Beatrice Edins was born in 1890. Both were born in AL, the children of Simmin Aaron Edins and Mary Drusilla McGuire. 

In all the pictures, the women look to be about the chronological ages that the genealogical paper trails and fashions suggest. In the first picture (ca. 1917) Carrie was about 20, Bessie about 27, and Britta Ann about 80. The second picture (1908 - 1910) was taken when Carrie was about 14 and Bessie was about 20. And they look like it. 

Nice.

These young ladies are Britta's granddaughters. Notice Bessie's high forehead. Remind you of anyone?

Describing the newest picture of Britta

So here's the latest picture I found on line of Britta Ann Green McGuire Flynn. I found this by googling her name and clicking on the Ancestry entry saying "Possible pictures of Britta Ann Green McGuire Flynn"; then doing a screen capture. Many, many thanks to the cousin who posted it in January.

Where was the picture taken? When? And who are the other two people in the photo?

A general description:

This is a photograph as opposed to a daguerreotype. Britta is sitting on the step of a house between two women. She is wearing a dark dress with a stand-up but narrow collar. Her hair is parted in the middle and pulled back. The woman on the left is wearing a dark, single-breasted coat with overly wide lapels. Her short hair is parted on the right side. The woman on the right is wearing a light-colored coat/jacket with thin, not mutton, sleeves and a long skirt underneath.  Her hair looks short but may merely be pulled back.

Since there's no record of Britta ever leaving her home state, we can assume this picture was taken in Alabama. More than that is impossible to say at this point.

The reason that the hairstyles and fashions may be important is that they can help us date this picture. Britta must have loved having her picture taken because she did it so often. However, her manner of dress and hairstyle never changed much from the first picture we have of her. No help in dating there.

Britta died in 1919, so the picture must have been taken prior.

About 1917 seems to be right because:

The young ladies hairstyles and coats are typical of the year 1917, though to be safe we should say "around 1917." At the time Alabama was not the center of the fashion world, though interested young ladies would have known the current styles from available newspapers and magazines.

The website https://witness2fashion.wordpress.com shows these coats a la mode in 1917:

https://witness2fashion.wordpress.com/tag/womens-coats-1917/

Part way down the page, notice the high lapels which look funny when open, and compare them to the coat on the left.

Of course the picture could have been taken before or after 1917, so to be safe, let's say it was taken 1915 - 1919 based on the fashions and the hairstyles of the young ladies.

As to the identities of the other two women in the picture, the cousin who posted this picture didn't know who they were. My first impression was that they resembled Carrie and Bessie Edins, daughters of Mary Drusilla McGuire and Simmin Edins, based on the picture found here:

http://mv.ancestry.com/viewer/f7a201be-bef4-48f6-abe4-96708510673a/11081306/-514579813

My other cousin confirmed in an email that my impression was hers, too.

And so, here's my best answer for the where/when/who questions:

This is a picture taken in Alabama of Carrie Edins, Britta Ann Green McGuire Flynn, and Bessie Edins about 1917 ± 2 years.

Thanks to everyone who helped.