family histories
Lineage documentation archives
Family histories are records or accounts of a family's lineage, health patterns, or personal narratives across generations.
In medicine, a family history documents inherited conditions and diseases among relatives: The doctor asked about my family history of heart disease.
In genealogy, it means research into ancestry and kinship.
More casually, family histories are the stories passed down about relatives and their lives.
- genealogyStudy of family descent
- heritageInherited cultural legacy
- ancestral recordsDocumentation of lineage
- lineageDescent from progenitors
- DNA testHereditary material analysis
life stories · historical societies · bloodline · surnames · vital records · oral traditions · migration patterns · pedigree · maiden names · grandparents · roots · census data · Ellis Island · generations · reunions · passed down · descendants · traced
- kinshipmother, father, sister, brother, children
- ancestryancestors, kinship, ancestor, clan, bloodline
- family recordsbirth certificates, birth certificate, death certificate, birth records, marriage license
- life storiesautobiography, memoir, memoirs, biography, biographies
- memoirsmemoir, memoirs, autobiography, autobiographies, life story
- genealogydescendants, ancestors, pedigrees, lineages, descent
family historiespersonal memoirs
Self-written life narrative
autobiographies · personal testimonies · obituaries · monographs · celebrity profiles
family historiesforecasts
Predicts future conditions
family planning · legacy planning · succession planning · futurology · futurism
family historiespublic records
Officially filed, publicly accessible documents
family, familiar, ancestry, histories, families, familial, familiarize, familiarization, family history