July 2016 - Page 31 of 56 - Reunions Magazine

Family health history is a hot reunion topic!

The more we know about health and medicine, the more it seems we need to know. Family health history is becoming a hot reunion topic...

10 questions to ask your family

The Utah Department of Health Chronic Disease Genomics Program encouraged reunions to explore family health history at their meetings. They suggest these questions to help...

Good for your family health

by Erika Dreifus, PhD Learning about your family's past can be good for your health. You may want to incorporate family health history activities into...

Have you signed your donor card?

Barbara J. Nolan, recruiter for the American Red Cross Marrow Donor Program in Northern Ohio offers an interesting suggestion. She points out that fatal blood...

Is there a doctor in the house?

by Renita M. Brooks, RN, BSN Reunion planning is difficult enough. I should know. I helped my mother plan our family reunion some years ago....

Make health a “family reunion” affair

Considering the hereditary nature of the key kidney disease risk factors, and the connectedness families feel during reunions, this might be a prime opportunity to...

Life Saving Discussion

Most people haven't discussed organ donation with their family. So often families are forced to make decisions about donating organs without knowing what the deceased...

Plan a family health workshop for your reunion

by Georgia Burnette Thirty years ago, interest in family history reached unprecedented levels with the publication of Alex Haley’s Roots. Genealogists entered seventh heaven as...

A Patriot history almost forgot

Recently, Oscar Marion became the first slave who fought in the Revolutionary War to receive military honors at Arlington National Cemetery. Marion was the personal...

Moerlein reunion first for family

Relatives of the 19th-century Cincinnati beer baron Christian Moerlein began the day at Philippus United Church of Christ, which Moerlein helped found; the church procured...