My grandson’s baby picture taken in 2004 when he was three is indistinguishable from his great aunt’s baby picture taken in 1916. It is all in the genes and DNA!
My son’s senior photo looks amazingly like my mother’s senior photo allowing obviously for gender differences. Everyone says my brother looks just like my grandfather and the other son looks like his father, Mr. Mercat. It is DNA. Our daughter is adopted and I found a photo of her great great aunt. She posted her photo and her half sister’s photo on Facebook with that aunt’s photo and it is striking.
We were recently going thru baby pictures of several generation and branches of our family. My aunt ( who passed this morning). Said “ we were so poor we could only afford one face !”