

Looks closer to 1850s, not a comment on your relatives, but the picture quality.
I feel you on the last sentence though, my parents used to keep a bunch of these really old photos in an old shoe box. A lot of them got destroyed in a flood, but I spent one summer with a scanner and an old laptop restoring as many photos as I could. Wish I’d done it sooner.
Didn’t really expect them to do anything different, but at point someone’s gonna have the “Are we the baddies?” realization right?