The U.S. Surgeon General’s Family History Initiative

My Family Health Portrait

My Family Health Portrait is the Web-based tool from NHGRI and the U.S. Surgeon General’s Family History Initiative that helps you create your own family health history. Using any computer, an Internet connection and an up-to-date Web browser, you provide your health information to build a drawing of your family tree and a chart of your family health history. Both the chart and the drawing can be printed and shared with your family members and your doctor.

Tracing the illnesses suffered by your parents, grandparents and other blood relatives can help your doctor predict the disorders to which you may be at risk, and help you take action to keep you and your family healthy.

Go to: My Family Health Portrait [familyhistory.hhs.gov]

About The Family History Initiative

In November 2004 – and to coincide with Thanksgiving, when families traditionally…