Master Handwriting Analyst To Deliver Lecture On Genealogy

Irene Lambert, a master handwriting analyst, will be delivering the lecture “Fleshing Out the Inner Character Through Graphoanalysis” at Cyrenius Booth Library at 10:30 am Saturday, March 3. The program is being sponsored by Newtown Genealogy Club and the Connecticut Ancestry Society. The public is invited, free of charge.

Mrs Lambert, who lives in Stratford, is recognized as one of the outstanding practitioners and teachers of graphoanalysis in the country. Her groundbreaking efforts are providing genealogists with a whole new dimension and opening another door to understanding family history.

In addition to revealing the personalities of ancestors and historical figures, Mrs Lambert has been introducing people and shedding light on handwriting analysis, or graphoanalysis, for many years. She has converted many skeptics with her simple, accurate, and enjoyable programs.

Until recently in this country, graphoanalysis has been equated with mystery and fortune telling. It is, however, rapidly gaining wider acceptance and is now an accredited course in a number of universities. Today an estimated 50,000 graphoanalysts are helping corporations and professionals in personnel evaluations.

Marriage counselors use it for compatibility studies; psychiatrists, psychologists, and social workers use it in patient therapy and in vocational analysis. Individuals use it to help better understand themselves. And now, thanks to Mrs Lambert’s seminal work, genealogists are relying more and more on graphoanalysis to help understand their ancestors.

“Handwriting is as unique to each one of us as our fingerprints,” says Mrs Lambert, “and it reveals with pinpoint accuracy a great number of human personality traits. What makes it so exciting to the genealogists is that we can provide a personality profile from just about anything that’s been written — from a diary to a shopping list, from a bill to a will. And you can learn how intelligent a person is; whether or not they show that emotion; what someone’s talents are; whether they’re trustworthy, deceitful, dangerous, creative, argumentative, or independent. And those are just some of the traits. You can really get a pretty complete profile — not from what people write, but how they write it. And by the way, it works in any language as long as they use our standard letters.

“There’s nothing vague or mysterious,” she continues. “It depends on specific factors that show up in everyone’s handwriting. For example, we look for the size and slant of the letters, the pressure and the placement of the writing on the paper, the formation of individual letters, like the ‘i dots,’ the ‘t crosses,’ and the loops. The more handwriting that’s provided, the more detailed can be the analysis. And the more experienced the analyst, the more accurate will be the personality profile.”

Prior to her innovative work with genealogy, Mrs Lambert developed her copyrighted Vocation Graphoanalytic Inventory (VGI) system to determine vocational aptitudes and career motivation through handwriting. She has helped steer students and adults across the country into jobs and careers most suitable to them. Years ago, in fact, when she first analyzed her own handwriting, she realized her original chosen career was not for her.

The National Genealogical Society published her findings in great detail in its National Genealogical Society Quarterly in September 1998. She was named Graphoanalyst of The Year in 2005 by the International Graphoanalysis Society (IGAS), and has been president of the Connecticut chapter of IGAS for several years.

In addition to her lecture at Cyrenius H. Booth Library on March 3, she will be presenting a three-week program on understanding handwriting analysis in Fairfield’s Roger Lowe Middle School starting March 3, and on March 20 she will begin a four-week program for the Milford Continuing Education Department for the fourth straight year. For further information about any of her programs, including the Genealogical Conference in Hartford in April, visit IPLambertLLC.com.