This week, I’ve exchanged emails with a couple of family historians about handwriting and even touched base with a graphologist! I am inquiring about a possible brief analysis of my grandfather’s handwriting.
My mother tells me that her father, Herman, had the same handwriting as his sister Lucinda. She tells me that he had the kind of personality where he would absorb what others were doing and start doing it himself. We don’t know who copied who, but I can imagine a young Herman helping his younger sister writing and deciding he liked it and would do it the same way too! 🙂
Here is an excerpt of his handwriting from a letter he wrote to my mother in 1974.
And here is an excerpt from Lucinda’s handwriting from a card she sent to me when I was in high school in 1994.
20 years apart, and by this time, my grandfather had passed – but, I can see the similarities. For example, look at the capital letter “B” in his word “Baby and her word “Box 101”. I think it is touching that they wrote similarly!
This week’s prompt for Amy Johnson Crow’s “52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks” series is “Long” and their handwriting came to my mind for this post, as I think of it as “long and flowery”.
Should the graphologist analysis come to fruition, I wonder what I would learn?