On 24 May 2009 I posted this photo William Charles Mankin.

Question

This is not a photo of John Doggett Brown.   Someone took this off of my Ancestry.com tree and said it was John Doggett Brown. In May 2009, I went to a great aunt, Minnie May Mankin Schelhorn and took photos of family members that she had in an album. If you look at the shared date. this will be the earliest date that this photo shows up on ancestry. The photo of his wife Dorcas is the same exact style as his photo, shared on the same day. Michael Mankin

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It does not show any photo

Answer 1

John, I'm not seeing the photo!

When a picture is posted on the G2G, and it wont display, it is because the picture has a privacy setting that is not set to OPEN.   Pictures pick up the privacy setting of the profile they are in.

You could create a Free Space page to park pictures on.  Make sure the privacy setting on the free space page is OPEN.  Then the pictures you upload to that page will also carry an OPEN privacy setting and will display here.

This would be a good place to try to practice getting a picture to display.   It's OK to experiment.  We all have to learn by trial and error!  So keep trying!

Answer 2

The photo is on the profile of John Doggett Brown, 1788-1867.  It is incorrect.  The photo shown is a photo from a family album and depicts William Charles Mankin, 1803-1870.  Both men are grandfathers in my family tree.

Answer 3

I looked up your photo on Ancestry. They look like the same person but the photos are different. Your photo is square with no background and cropped close.

The photo posted to WikiTree as John Doggett Brown is in an oval mat with writing at the bottom of the mat and a background with trees to the left and shows his legs (I doubt he went to the trouble of adding legs and a background to your photo).

The ancestry tree of Jim Morgan (he commented on your photo) has the same ancestors (he has William Charles Mankin in his tree and his wife Dorcas).

My guess is this, you both have the same ancestors and you both had access to a family photo album with these pictures. The photographer probably took more than one photo and the family distributed each to relatives. The question is, whose picture is correctly attributed to the correct person? Did someone verbally state who the photo was of or was it written on the back of the photo etc etc etc? 

I would try and contact Jim Morgan on ancestry (you can message people directly instead of posting a comment on a photo) and see if the two of you can figure it out.  

Good luck. Maybe you will find new cousins in the process!

Comments

Instead of editing my original post, I will just add a comment:

I went back to the wikitree page for John Brown and if you click on images the back of the photo is there. The back of the photo says John Brown and has a lot of other info on it. Posted to wikitree in 2016.