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...Your Family Connection
can compile your Family Health History utilizing our medical background
and genealogical research experience. This is a fairly new aspect of genealogy
for which few genealogists are qualified. Many people wonder why a health
pedigree should be compiled and what it looks like. |
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...A Family Health History
is constructed much like a pedigree chart except that, instead of personal
historical information, it contains medical information that is represented
using nationally recognized symbols. The type of information needed for
and questions used to gather the data to construct a Family Health History
are medically technical in nature. Once your Family Health History is completed,
you can take it to your health care provider for evaluation and follow-up. |
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...A family can learn
much about it's medical future by examining its past. Many of the key factors
that will determine just how healthy we are throughout life, which illnesses
we contract, even how long we will live, we inherit from our ancestors.
Armed with the information contained in a Family Health History we may be
able to prevent or minimize illnesses that doomed our forbearers.
...Many diseases
and disorders have long been known to "run in families" but only
recently has research shown us just how many diseases have a genetic or
familial basis and provided us with the knowledge necessary to prevent and
treat such illnesses. Genetic factors underlie all aspects of health and
disease. Scientists have already identified over 2,000 genetic diseases
and the list keeps growing with new medical discoveries. Many other conditions,
though not inherited, do tend to occur more frequently in some families
than in others. The discussion of family traits is common when kinfolk gather,
but the information is rarely compiled into a permanent record.
...By researching
your Family Health History you can provide your family with a medical genealogy
containing important information about the health of the relatives who preceded them. Passed along to future generations, the tree can be used to prevent
and reduce illness, becoming a testament to your concern for the well-being
of those members not yet born.
...The information
gathered in a Family Health History can steer you to good preventive health
care, such as regular doctor check-ups, simple changes in eating habits
and exercise. Certain family health patterns can alert you and your doctor
to the fact that you need to be watching for early warning signs of a certain
illness with regular monitoring tests. Early diagnosis and treatment can
either cure or control many illnesses once thought to be incurable. Those
with serious genetic illnesses in their backgrounds will find full information
helpful in making life choices (whether to have children, get married, etc.)
Consider that family medical information gathered now can help generations
yet to come take advantage of future medical discoveries.
...The best health
data can be collected using the "whole family approach." It is
important to include collateral relatives because they share many of the
same genes and may show the effects of those genes sooner than one's immediate
ancestors. Conditions among relatives that seem random or unrelated may
form a pattern or syndrome when gathered together. In this context, the
whole family means relatives related by blood, rather than marriage. |
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...Norma Storrs Keating
is a Registered Nurse with a Bachelor of Science degree from Indiana University
School of Nursing. She currently is licensed to practice nursing in New
Jersey and California. Norma continues to expand and update her knowledge
by regularly taking continuing education classes in nursing and related
medical fields and subscribing to several medical/nursing publications.
We strive to serve our clients in a timely manner. Clients receive a neat,
documented research report summarizing the research, indicating what was
found, or not found, and giving suggestions for further research. This report
is accompanied by copies of all documents and research notes. We look forward
to helping you with your genealogical inquiries. |
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norma@yourfamilyconnection.com |
| Write me at: |
Your Family Connection
4653 Avenida Rio Del Oro
Yorba Linda, CA 92886-3013 |
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1-(714)-970-6573 |
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