Family history
A private, structured way to record what you know about your family’s health and spot patterns that some guidelines treat as a reason to have a particular conversation with a clinician or a genetic counselor. The product promise is simple: leave with better questions, even when you don’t know the answers. 100% Private. Everything stays on your device.
What this tool is
A structured family health history that detects patterns— e.g. an early-onset coronary pattern, a Lynch-spectrum cancer pattern, a type-2 diabetes cluster — and turns them into discussion prompts for a clinician, plus concrete questions to ask the rest of your family to fill the gaps. Modelled after the CDC’s My Family Health Portrait tradition.
What this tool is not
Not a genetic test, not a genetic risk score, not a diagnosis. Family history is one input among many; only a clinician (and where relevant, a genetic counselor) can interpret it in context. Outputs are framed as patterns to discuss, never as findings of disease. This tool will never recommend supplements based on family history.
Why patterns, not predictions
Cause-of-death records are often inaccurate, recall is patchy, and shared environment (diet, smoking, geography) blurs the “genetic” signal. Pattern-level framing is honest about what family history can and can’t tell you, and matches how clinicians actually use it.
Adopted / estranged / donor-conceived
Many people only know part of their family history. TheWhat’s missing section is built for that: it tells you which gaps would change the picture and which relatives to ask next, instead of treating partial answers as a failure.
Privacy
Family health data is sensitive. Your answers are stored only in this browser, scoped to the active profile. Nothing is uploaded. See transparency for the network-level audit.
For your clinician
Use the printable family history sheet to bring a one-page summary to your next visit — the same content as the on-screen report, formatted for A4.
How this tool was built
Rule-based and deterministic; patterns are derived from public guidance (USPSTF, ACC/AHA, ADA, ACG, AAD, Alzheimer’s Association). The rules engine is open source. This tool has not been clinically reviewed; see methodology for how Almavivo’s tools are built and where they stop.
References. CDC: family health history · 2018 ACC/AHA cholesterol guideline · 2022 ACC/AHA aortic disease guideline · USPSTF: BRCA-related risk assessment · ACG colorectal screening guideline.