Curious---Tad left or right handed?

[Eva Elisabeth]

(01-26-2016 10:00 AM)Angela Wrote:  

(01-26-2016 06:22 AM)Eva Elisabeth Wrote:  

(01-26-2016 12:24 AM)Angela Wrote:  I dont have access to it right now, but would not Julia Tafts diary/book make mention of it if Tad was left handed. She observed the Lincoln children closely and spend a lot of time with them.

@Eva: while the custom of "re training" left handed children in German schools existed, it was not practiced everywhere. I was never asked to use my right hand for writing and neither were any of my cousins or even my mother.

That's interesting. Did you grow up in a Catholic area?

It has always been fairly balanced. However, three of my cousins of which two are left handed, as well as my mother grew up in rather catholic Mainz.

I just can say where I grew up it was (still) common to force students to use the right hand for writing, also for the neat-and-tidiness.*

(01-26-2016 05:35 AM)RJNorton Wrote:  Can one tell if a person is left-handed from their handwriting?

* When I use an ink pen (which I love to do) it is almost impossible to write an entire page without smearing and smudging somewhere.
I think a graphologist can tell and determine. Also left-handedness often occurs more than once in a family (although I think it hasn't yet been proven it's hereditary). In my father's family it did e.g.