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How do I keep track of my family medical history?
If possible, look at death certificates and family medical records. Collect information about your parents, sisters, brothers, half-sisters, half-brothers, children, grandparents, aunts, uncles, nieces, and nephews.
Family members share genes, habits, lifestyles, and surroundings.
These things can affect health and the risk for illness. Most people have a relative with a chronic disease or a health condition such as high cholesterol. If you have a close family member with a chronic disease, you may be more likely to get that disease.
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How far back should I go for family medical history?
The CDC recommends taking a family health history that includes at least three generations. You should include your grandparents, parents, brothers and sisters, aunts and uncles, nieces and nephews, and cousins on both sides of your family. If you have children, include them, too.
What if I don't know my family's medical history?
If you have your birth parents' names, public records such as birth or death certificates may give you more insight into your family's background. Also ask your adoptive parents or the adoption agency whether they have any information that could give you more information about your family medical history.
Your family health history plays an important role in your health.
Download FREE copies of our family health history toolkit to share with your family, friends, and colleagues. Take this important step for health now!
If possible, look at death certificates and family medical records. Collect information about your parents, sisters, brothers, half-sisters, half-brothers, children, grandparents, aunts, uncles, nieces, and nephews.
Family members share genes, habits, lifestyles, and surroundings.
These things can affect health and the risk for illness. Most people have a relative with a chronic disease or a health condition such as high cholesterol. If you have a close family member with a chronic disease, you may be more likely to get that disease.
BE INFORMED
How far back should I go for family medical history?
The CDC recommends taking a family health history that includes at least three generations. You should include your grandparents, parents, brothers and sisters, aunts and uncles, nieces and nephews, and cousins on both sides of your family. If you have children, include them, too.
What if I don't know my family's medical history?
If you have your birth parents' names, public records such as birth or death certificates may give you more insight into your family's background. Also ask your adoptive parents or the adoption agency whether they have any information that could give you more information about your family medical history.
Your family health history plays an important role in your health.
Download FREE copies of our family health history toolkit to share with your family, friends, and colleagues. Take this important step for health now!
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How to create a family health history
A family health history is a written record of health and medical conditions that have happened to you and your relatives, including your immediate and extended family. It isn’t a prediction of your health or your family’s health; rather, a family health history can help you understand your risk of certain conditions and act on that knowledge.
Why is a family health history important?
When it comes to your health, knowledge is power. Many disease risk factors are modifiable, meaning that we can change them for the better and optimize our health. If you learn, for example, that heart disease runs in your family, you may feel motivated to make lifestyle changes that help lower your risk. Keeping track of your health and medical information and that of your close relatives is beneficial in many ways. A family health history may help you and your relatives:
Identify disease and health patterns in your family
Make a list of family members. Include grandparents, parents, siblings (including half-siblings), children, aunts, uncles, cousins, nieces, nephews and grandchildren. Include at least three generations, if possible. Make note of who married into or was adopted into the family.
List their health conditions. For each person, note:
For relatives who have passed away, age and cause(s) of death
Talk to your family. To gain more information, explain to your relatives what you’re doing and why. “Interview” those who are willing to discuss their health. Listen carefully and take notes. (If someone declines to participate, respect their wishes and their privacy.)
Expand your research. Family trees, family photos, letters and baby books may contain useful information. If you need more information about deceased relatives, look for family medical records, insurance forms, obituaries, funeral home records or death certificates. Your family members may have these or know where to access them.
Organize your notes. You can keep information in a word processing document or actually draw a family health tree, if you like.
Share your family health history with your health-care provider. They can review and help you interpret your findings.
Share the information with your family. Knowing that certain diseases run in the family may help your relatives make health decisions, change their lifestyle habits, keep up with medical appointments, etc.
Store health information safely. You can password-protect digital files. If your notes are on paper, keep them somewhere safe and private.
Update your family’s health history regularly. Share updates with your physician. And if you develop a health condition yourself, let your family know.
A family health history is a written record of health and medical conditions that have happened to you and your relatives, including your immediate and extended family. It isn’t a prediction of your health or your family’s health; rather, a family health history can help you understand your risk of certain conditions and act on that knowledge.
Why is a family health history important?
When it comes to your health, knowledge is power. Many disease risk factors are modifiable, meaning that we can change them for the better and optimize our health. If you learn, for example, that heart disease runs in your family, you may feel motivated to make lifestyle changes that help lower your risk. Keeping track of your health and medical information and that of your close relatives is beneficial in many ways. A family health history may help you and your relatives:
Identify disease and health patterns in your family
- Understand and reduce your risk of certain diseases by changing your lifestyle habits, getting screening tests or seeking genetic counselling
- Uncover an undiagnosed condition
- Plan for pregnancy
- Open up a dialogue about health in your family
- Recommend preventative lifestyle changes
- Determine the type and frequency of screening tests you should get
- Diagnose health issues
- Prescribe treatments
- Create your family health tree
Make a list of family members. Include grandparents, parents, siblings (including half-siblings), children, aunts, uncles, cousins, nieces, nephews and grandchildren. Include at least three generations, if possible. Make note of who married into or was adopted into the family.
List their health conditions. For each person, note:
- Birthdate and sex
- Significant health issues, such as heart disease, stroke, diabetes or cancer (including type)
- Other health conditions such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol, osteoporosis, asthma, allergies, arthritis, autoimmune diseases, migraines, vision loss, hearing loss, etc.
- Major surgeries
- Bone fractures
- Mental health and neurological conditions, such as dementia or depression
- Alcoholism and other substance use issues
- Learning disabilities
- Pregnancy complications, including infertility, birth defects, miscarriages, stillbirths
- Age at which each health condition began
For relatives who have passed away, age and cause(s) of death
Talk to your family. To gain more information, explain to your relatives what you’re doing and why. “Interview” those who are willing to discuss their health. Listen carefully and take notes. (If someone declines to participate, respect their wishes and their privacy.)
Expand your research. Family trees, family photos, letters and baby books may contain useful information. If you need more information about deceased relatives, look for family medical records, insurance forms, obituaries, funeral home records or death certificates. Your family members may have these or know where to access them.
Organize your notes. You can keep information in a word processing document or actually draw a family health tree, if you like.
Share your family health history with your health-care provider. They can review and help you interpret your findings.
Share the information with your family. Knowing that certain diseases run in the family may help your relatives make health decisions, change their lifestyle habits, keep up with medical appointments, etc.
Store health information safely. You can password-protect digital files. If your notes are on paper, keep them somewhere safe and private.
Update your family’s health history regularly. Share updates with your physician. And if you develop a health condition yourself, let your family know.
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The premier global family celebration and genealogy event, is happy to announce the first of its keynote speakers for the 3-day experience, February 29 to March 2, 2024, in Salt Lake City, Utah, and online. Lynne M. Jackson, author, and president and founder of the Dred Scott Heritage Foundation, will take the main stage on Friday, March 1, 2023. Ms. Jackson is the great-great-granddaughter of Dred and Harriet Scott, an enslaved couple well known for taking their case for freedom to the U.S. Supreme Court. The theme for RootsTech 2024 is "Remember", a fitting framework for Ms. Jackson's keynote address. She created the foundation to “promote the commemoration, education and reconciliation of our histories... and ensure that we never forget the struggle for freedom, citizenship and equality, with an eye towards helping to heal the wounds of the past.”
Ms. Jackson has spent her life telling the story of her ancestors and advocating for civil rights. It's a story of courage, fear, and faith to claim one's right to freedom, by the law of the land, and by the conviction that all human beings are entitled to stand up for their freedom.
In the Dred Scott v. Sanford case of 1857, the Supreme Court denied Dred and Harriet's petition for freedom, ruling that enslaved people were not citizens of the country and could not expect protection under the law. The decision is considered one of the catalysts for starting the U.S. Civil War, a pivotal conflict that resulted in the abolition of slavery across the nation. Dred and Harriet Scott were eventually granted the precious freedom they were once denied.
RootsTech 2024 by FamilySearch,
The premier global family celebration and genealogy event, is happy to announce the first of its keynote speakers for the 3-day experience, February 29 to March 2, 2024, in Salt Lake City, Utah, and online. Lynne M. Jackson, author, and president and founder of the Dred Scott Heritage Foundation, will take the main stage on Friday, March 1, 2023. Ms. Jackson is the great-great-granddaughter of Dred and Harriet Scott, an enslaved couple well known for taking their case for freedom to the U.S. Supreme Court. The theme for RootsTech 2024 is "Remember", a fitting framework for Ms. Jackson's keynote address. She created the foundation to “promote the commemoration, education and reconciliation of our histories... and ensure that we never forget the struggle for freedom, citizenship and equality, with an eye towards helping to heal the wounds of the past.”
Ms. Jackson has spent her life telling the story of her ancestors and advocating for civil rights. It's a story of courage, fear, and faith to claim one's right to freedom, by the law of the land, and by the conviction that all human beings are entitled to stand up for their freedom.
In the Dred Scott v. Sanford case of 1857, the Supreme Court denied Dred and Harriet's petition for freedom, ruling that enslaved people were not citizens of the country and could not expect protection under the law. The decision is considered one of the catalysts for starting the U.S. Civil War, a pivotal conflict that resulted in the abolition of slavery across the nation. Dred and Harriet Scott were eventually granted the precious freedom they were once denied.
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