Detroit Free Press www.freep.com Talk with relatives about health history BY KAREN SHIDELER KNIGHT RIDDER NEWSPAPERS December 7, 2004 While family members are visiting this holiday season, it's a good idea to ask some questions beyond "How were the roads?" and "What did you mean by that?" U.S. health officials suggest we use the holidays as an occasion to share not only fellowship but medical information. Thousands of diseases have a genetic component -- they "run in the family." Some of them, like Huntington's disease and sickle cell anemia, can't be influenced by behavior, but how you live can have an effect on others. If you have a family history of heart disease, for example, you can improve your chances of not getting it by keeping your blood pressure under control, exercising regularly, keeping your weight in check and not smoking. The U.S. Health and Human Services Department offers free information about putting together a family health tree. For remainder of article: www.freep.com/news/health/world7e_20041207.htm ************************************************************************* Beverly Citizen of www.townonline.com 100 Years Ago... Thursday, January 6, 2005 The following was from the Saturday, Jan. 7, 1905 edition of the Beverly Citizen. The Citizen was Beverly's first newspaper, established in 1851. Didn't like married life Dec. 29, Thomas Burns and Miss Mary Manning were married. They went home but the next night the bride concluded that she loved another man better and went to Lynn to meet Frank Warner, a man she claimed to love better than her husband whom she claimed her mother had forced her to marry. The police took Warner and Mrs. Burns into custody and they were held in $300 bonds. The reporters say Mary is a good looking blonde of 23 years. For additional sorties: http://www2.townonline.com/beverly/opinion/view.bg?articleid=159412&format= ************************************************************************* DuluthNewsTribuneIcom Marker sets family's history in stone On Veterans Day, 76 years after his death, local Civil War veteran Henry Theodore Johnson is getting the grave marker he deserves BY CHUCK FREDERICK NEWS TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER With a stack of papers tucked under her arm, some of them detailing ceremonies today for her great-grandfather, Barb Johnson couldn't help but grin and wonder as she stepped carefully through the graveyard. "Do you hear laughing down there?" she asked this week. "My dad always said he had a good sense of humor. He'd be tickled by all this. I mean, here he's been dead all these years and now suddenly all these people are coming to visit." Johnson's great-grandfather, Henry Theodore Johnson, died 76 years ago today. He and other Civil War veterans -- including Albert Woolson, the last surviving member of the Union Army -- were supposed to help dedicate the new Duluth City Hall. For the "rest of the story" .. http://www.duluthsuperior.com/mld/duluthsuperior/10152854.htm Sally Rolls Pavia sallypavia2001@yahoo.com <mailto:sallypavia2001@yahoo.com> "Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors." .. Carl Sagan List Owner: GENEALOGYBITSANDPIECES-L-request@rootsweb.com <mailto:GENEALOGYBITSANDPIECES-L-request@rootsweb.com> Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/GENEALOGYBITSANDPIECES "All incoming and outgoing email checked by Norton Anti-Virus"