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In our research we collect data including death
certificates, seek out obituaries about our family members and possibly even
take DNA tests to help us identify distant cousins and unlock the puzzle of our
ancestry.
As
you are doing the above, how close do you really read what you’ve collected in
terms of what people died of? We often
get so caught up in discovering our ancestors that we might overlook an obvious
trend of family members dying of heart disease, strokes, breast or testicular
cancer, etc.
Oregon
Live posted The
importance of family gatherings to your health
which talks about two women who in hindsight learned that their health woes
were the same experienced in their genealogy tree.
If you didn’t catch
the Upfront with NGS post titled Genealogy and Family
Health History Go Hand-in-Hand! you can learn more on this subject
and be introduced to one of many tools that might help you document your
families health history. Ancestry.com also has a page, Creating a Health
History and the Utah Department of Health has a Family Health History
Toolkit.
As you do your
research and collect information about your family, please pay attention to any
trends in terms of health issues. So
many are genetic and as such they are inherited.
Has your family history research revealed a health issue that has
been passed down through the generations? Have you done anything to try and
minimize your risk of experiencing that health issue?
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