| The systematic narrative and exploration of | | | | disease prevention with the U.S. Surgeon General's |
| bygone events involving a certain family, or | | | | Family History Initiative. This initiative has |
| definite families compiled chronologically is family | | | | proposed that Thanksgiving Day be designated a |
| history. It is done world wide and the Internet | | | | National Family History Day in which persons |
| gives us the opportunity to help more people | | | | collect their family health histories. A new |
| search their family history. The Internet is an | | | | web-based tool, My Family Health Portrait ( |
| unfussy yet effective genomic tool that can | | | | enables persons to collect family history for six |
| gather information on genetic, environmental, | | | | diseases (CHD, stroke, diabetes, and colorectal, |
| behavioral, public, and for investigating social risk | | | | breast, and ovarian cancer) and identify additional |
| factors for diseases among family members. | | | | diseases that occur in their families.) |
| Tracing the illnesses suffered by your parents, | | | | Families and individuals have been passing on their |
| grandparents, and other blood relatives can help | | | | stories about the past by word of mouth from |
| your doctor predict the disorders to which you | | | | the beginning of time. There are programs |
| may be at risk and take action to keep you and | | | | available which makes it FUN to trace your family |
| your family healthy. One may be encouraged to | | | | tree. Some can be bought for a price and there |
| include events to credit family members no longer | | | | are some programs wherein you can search for |
| living. A current survey found that 96 percent of | | | | your family tree for free. Books and internet |
| Americans consider that knowing their family | | | | websites provide family tree charts, genealogy |
| history is important. In the narrower sense of the | | | | research reports, searches, media, full source |
| term, a family history is a biography of a single | | | | citations, and much more. Get busy with your |
| family over several generations, based on a | | | | family tree today. It will help you organize your |
| tested genealogy and fleshed out with the fuller | | | | family genealogy research, store your family |
| story of the family's place in wealth and rank. | | | | history data, enter proper source citations, and |
| With the advances in technology today scrap | | | | produce professional-quality family tree charts and |
| booking your family history is becoming a full | | | | genealogy research reports that you can preview |
| media event. One of best tools for organizing | | | | and modify, then print or publish on the web on |
| your family history is the program called Personal | | | | your own genealogy website. How do you choose |
| Ancestral File. Keep in mind that no one's family | | | | your family tree software. look up at your library |
| history is compelling and interesting, until you | | | | books or periodicals. Search for these titles; |
| make it compelling and interesting. Sharing of | | | | Genbox, Legacy , Family Tree Maker,RootsMagic, |
| genealogy and family history is what makes this | | | | and other genealogy software programs, and you |
| and all genealogy / research possible. It has been | | | | will understand somewhat how these programs |
| said that genealogy is the study of family history, | | | | work. Do searches on the internet; enter |
| while family history is the study of genealogy and | | | | "genealogy programs" or "family history |
| everything else--including the background, location, | | | | programs". hopefully, you will discover that some |
| and circumstances of people's lives. (The | | | | of these programs have all the capabilities that an |
| Department of Health and Human Services is | | | | experienced genealogist would need. |
| highlighting the importance of family history for | | | | |