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<\/p>\nWritten by Erika Johnson. Erika is a health sciences librarian at the University of North Dakota School of Medicine & Health Sciences\u00a0and a GMR Partner Outreach Librarian.<\/p>\n
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Thanksgiving Day is just around the corner \u2013 a day when families gather to enjoy time together. Did you know that Thanksgiving Day is also National Family Health History Day<\/a>? Chances are you will be seeing grandparents, aunts and uncles, and other family members who have important memories to share. What a great opportunity to start a conversation about your family\u2019s health! Documenting medical and health information is an important part of protecting your family\u2019s health in the future.<\/p>\n As librarians and information specialists, we can help spread the word about this often-overlooked element of family history. In September, I gave a presentation at a family history workshop. My session focused on how librarians can help genealogists<\/a> locate and learn about their relatives. I also included a brief section on gathering medical and health information<\/a> as an important component of a family\u2019s history.<\/p>\n The 2018 workshop, \u201cOver There,\u201d presented by the Heritage Education Commission<\/a>, was the organizations 43rd<\/sup> annual workshop. With planning already underway for the 44th<\/sup> annual workshop in 2019, I\u2019m looking forward to focusing my next presentation on family health history and leaving the genealogy stuff the experts! There are many excellent resources available from the NNLM<\/a> and other organizations. Here are just a few that I plan to use as I create my next presentation:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Written by Erika Johnson. Erika is a health sciences librarian at the University of North Dakota School of Medicine & Health Sciences\u00a0and a GMR Partner Outreach Librarian. Thanksgiving Day is just around the corner \u2013 a day when families gather to enjoy time together. Did you know that Thanksgiving Day is also National Family Health… Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1166,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[211,151,202],"tags":[226],"class_list":["post-13080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-of-us","category-blog","category-partner-outreach-libraries-from-the-gmr","tag-partner-outreach-library"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8NC9K-3oY","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1166"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13080"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13087,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13080\/revisions\/13087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
\nA list of print, online, and multimedia resources for supplement your program or event<\/li>\n
\nA PDF guide to asking questions and organizing a family health history<\/li>\n
\nA series of videos documenting genetic, genealogic, and anthropologic investigations by a group of young scientists; includes curriculum resources<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n