I have letters my maternal grandmother wrote and some my mother wrote and there is such a similarity. The comment below about inheriting characteristics of the hand of a parent made me remember the following observation. At a fairly early age, I developed some osteoarthritis in my fingers. My doctor asked if my mother had it and I replied no, although I think my hands look much like hers. When I brought home boxes of pictures after my parents died, I scanned a couple of pictures of my mom's mother and grandmother. Upon enlarging them on the monitor, I saw not only that I had the hands of my mother, my grandmother and my great grandmother, but that the grandmothers both appear to have had arthritis in their fingers! I've learned lots of little details by enlarging photos on the monitor. Catherine joan and norm rusk wrote: > How about hands? I think that people's hands are just like one of their > parents. Mine are just like my dad's: fingers that are more square than > long with little fingers that do not come up to the joint of my ring finger. > > Joan Griffin Rusk >