I have recently changed insurance so have to provide the new doctors with medical histories. A medical pedigree is extremely helpful to your doctor. It is interesting to note allergies for 6 generations, glaucoma in 3 family members, diabetes in two of the younger generation, heart problems, strokes, cancer, especially the lack of breast cancer and the presence of colon cancer, etc. Most genealogy programs have spaces to enter medical information. I put in not only things like my father's early pneumonia and lifelong susceptibility to it but all the things that our family members have died from or presently have. Recently, one of my daughters also needed medical history information. She happens to be a medical assistant and knows its importance. I was able to supply information on the ills and causes of death of 7 generations of her ancestors. It is easy in each of these programs to enter the information and block it from regular reports that you publish. It can be marked as sensitive in some programs so that it does not print out unless you override the block. You can usually do reports that include the age at death, giving a good idea of the relative longevity of your family. Combined with illnesses and causes of death this gives in one report excellent information for your doctor to assist her in planning your treatment. My doctors love it. If you are doing a medical pedigree, the date of birth, marriage, death are not important. The important information is the cause of death, the age at death, chronic illnesses, incidences of cancer, asthma, heart disease, glaucoma, macular degeneration, diabetes, epilepsy, arthritis, allergies and other chronic problems and the relationship to you of those family members. So you need to set your report to show parents, grandparents, great-grandparents. You need to include the siblings of each person on the report so that you get your cousins, aunts and uncles through the generations. If you can produce that information for only two generations it is helpful to your doctor but if you can do it for 6 generations it is a great help to him. Bette