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DNA Health Tests and Your Family Health History

Rick Crume
Oct 6, 2021
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Welcome
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Speaker's Introduction
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Introduction
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Health History
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Health in Records
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DNA Health Tests
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DNA Tools
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DNA Test Results
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MyHeritage Results
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Announcements / prizes
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Questions / answers
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About this webinar

Your family’s medical history might reveal a history of disease and even patterns relevant to your own health. In this class, you’ll learn why you need a family health history, where to find records that show causes of death and illness and how to organize your health history information. You’ll also find out how health features in the DNA tests from 23andMe, Ancestry, Living DNA and MyHeritage compare.

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Rick Crume
A writer for Family Tree Magazine since 1999 and a contributing editor for the publication since 2001, Rick specializes in online genealogy research. Rick has also written for other magazines and journals, including Internet Genealogy
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    Rita Anne Abramoski
    1 year ago

    Very interesting. Rick gave a nice list of resources. I also like the comparison of the different sites and the live demo of reports.

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    Linda Bailey
    1 year ago

    Great overview of DNA health tests/services PLUS a few new unheard of ones out there!

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    Cheryl Mapes
    1 year ago

    Very educational and interesting.

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    Marilyn DeBalfo
    1 year ago

    I found the comparisons between the various companies extremely informative.

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    Georgianna Seko
    1 year ago

    A very interesting webinar.

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    Sylvia Nelson
    1 year ago

    He reminded me that I still have another task to complete!

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    Jane Flowers
    1 year ago

    Really enjoyed info and planning on using it immediately.

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    Jerome Geist
    1 year ago

    I loved his comparison of the various DNA sites offering their own Reporting and then the comparison to the sites that only Report using your tested DNA. Quite interesting!

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