Correcting Mistakes in Bryan Family Trees And How You Can Help.

We all have mistakes in our family trees. I have plenty and for the past year have spent much time correcting mistakes, adding sources, and trying to raise the overall quality of my family tree. 

However, I need help from those with Bryan family trees to correct four mistakes. When I was a newer researcher I unknowingly misled many, many Bryan family researchers. I see these four mistakes almost every time I look at family trees related to my Bryan family on Ancestry and other genealogical websites. These mistakes involve three sons of Reddick Bryan who lived in Bienville Parish, Louisiana. The sons are James, Joseph B., and Tillman C. 

How You Can Help

These mistakes are seen in so many of Reddick Bryan's family trees. If you correct them in your trees, there will be fewer incorrect trees for future genealogists.  If these sons of Reddick Bryan are in your tree, please follow the steps below. 

Mistake #1 - Joseph B. Bryan

This is NOT Joseph B. Bryan. It is actually his half-brother, James Bryan. Please remove this photo from Joseph B. Bryan's profile. If James Bryan is in your tree, add it to his profile. 

My explanation of why this needs to be changed can be found at Friday's Photo: Joseph B. Bryan or James Bryan?

Mistakes #2 and # 3 - James Bryan

#2  The Photos

Please add this photo to James Bryan's profile. See Mistake #1 for more about this. 

 

This is NOT James Bryan. Please remove it from his profile. This is James Anderson Bryan, son of Joseph B. Bryan. James Anderson Bryan was the father of Albert Brown Bryan. For more about this photo and how I was able to correctly identify it as James Anderson Bryan, read Friday's Photo: James Anderson Bryan, 1858 - 1885.

#3 James Bryan, son of Reddick Bryan - His Name

Mistake #3 was the result of a careless error on my part. I had a website by 2002, first with AOL Hometown and later with Rootsweb Freepages. On those sites, I carelessly wrote James Bryan's name as James B. Bryan. Please remove the "B." James did not have a middle name. Read more at James Bryan - No Middle Initial.

Mistake #4 - Tillman C. Bryan

The above three photos are all of Tillman C. Bryan, son of Reddick Bryan and Elizabeth Regan. The photo below is NOT Tillman C. Bryan, son of Reddick and Elizabeth. The photo below is the Tillman C. Bryan II, son of Tillman C. Bryan and his wife, Mildred Manning Prothro. 

Please remove this photo from the profile of Tillman C. Bryan and add it to his son's profile - Tillman C. Bryan II. To learn more about this read Friday's Photo: Is This Really the Tillman Bryan Born in 1830?

Please don't hesitate to contact me if you need help with these photos. Find my email on the "About Me" tab at the top of this page or comment on my Facebook page.  

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Diana

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Sources

Bryan family photos, n.d.; digital images held by D. B. Quinn, from the privately held photo collection of Marguerite Cook Clark (1913-1989), Waynesville, North Carolina, 2021. Photos were accessed and scanned at the home of Marguerite Cook Clark's daughter in Alpine, Texas on April 28, 2014, September 14, 2014, and November 9 to 11, 2016.

Bryan family photos, n.d.; digital images, from the privately held photo collection of Diana B. Quinn, Virginia Beach, VA, 2022. 

Tillman C. Bryan, photograph/tintype, ca.1860; scanned image held by D.B. Quinn, from the privately held photo collection of the H. Forstmann, CT, 2020. Used with permission.