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Not late at all, Peter.  Thank you so much for your good work.  I am very grateful for your spending the time on this damaged picture and appreciate your, and everyone's, hard work in making this image look so much better.  I really appreciate it!

The young woman's hair is long and done in an up-do style. After WW1, women 'bobbed' their hair to short styles, except for some much older women.  That plus the long dress indicate a pre-1920 date.  After the war, skirts went up, way up.
As for the solemn faces indicating a 'going to war' photo, I'm sorry to disagree.  People just didn't smile in formal photos, just like formal paintings for those who could afford them.  You might take a look at the 1900 tintype I posted here yesterday.  It was the baby's christening and no one is smiling except a wee smile from the young mother who just couldn't resist!

This is a long time later but I would be remiss in not reporting that I did finally find my great-great-great grandmother, Esther McKay McCaw--in Kansas, USA.  It was a tremendous amount of research but it seems that soon after she appeared in Griffiths Valuation, she left Ballintoy, age almost 60, and went to the US.  She stayed with her two sons in Brooklyn NY, one being my newly married great-great grandfather, Patrick McCaw, and then went west to live with her newly married daughter, Mary Ann McCaw McFall. Mary Ann married a boy from Ballintoy--John McFall--in Illinois.
I found a cluster of Ballintoy people who had recently, about 1870, settled in Nemaha County, Kansas.  Since then I have had many DNA connections with that branch of the family, plus the New York branch of which I am one.  Our family had no idea of these Midwest relations.
Esther was born in 1808, died in 1891 and is buried in a prairie cemetery near her new home and very far from where I ever expected to find her!   

Hello,
This is a treasured tintype of my great-grandmother, Sarah Quinlan, born Ireland 1847, and several of her children with her first grandchild in New York City in 1900. It's not in great shape. I would be very grateful for your restoration efforts.  Could you please leave the city background?  And the black and white or sepia?  I appreciate any help you can give.

Thanks again for these suggestions. I will go thru them and hope one is simple enough for my skills. I did watch the YouTube video and it was quite a process to get rid of the red eye.  I guess I should have added that my family are all blue-eyed so the eyes have to turn blue.  I don't know if that's possible altho the Windows 10 photo editing did it pretty well.  Thank you again!