Ready to start researching your family's health history? Start with these Web sites and books.
Web Sites
10 Best Web Sites for Vital records
BJ’s Genealogy Site: Epidemics in the United States
Cyndi’s List: Family Health History
Epidemics in the United States
Influenza: 1918
Just for the Health of It
Mayo Clinic: How to Compile Your Medical Family Tree
Measuring Your Family Health History: Genograms
Mutter Museum
My Family Health Portrait
Major U.S. Epidemics
MortalitySchedules.com
Museum of Questionable Medical Devices
Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man
Rudy’s List of Archaic Medical terms
Stanley Diamond's Beta-Thalassemia Research Web site
Surgeon General's Family History Initiative
Where to Look for 1880 DDD Supplemental Census Records (PDF download)
Books
The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic that Shaped Our History by Molly Caldwell Crosby (Berkley)
Epidemics in Colonial America by John Duffy (Louisiana State University Press)
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World by Steven Johnson (Riverhead Trade)
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History by John M. Barry (Penguin Books)
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond (W.W. Norton)
A Medical Miscellany for Genealogists by Jeanette L. Jerger (Heritage Books)
In My Blood: Six Generations of Madness and Desire in an American Family (Harper Collins)
Man and Microbes: Disease and Plagues in History and Modern Times by Arno Karlen (Simon & Schuster)
Mutter Museum Historic Medical Photographs (Blast Books)
My Father’s Heart: A Son’s Journey by Steve McKee (Da Capo Press)
Plagues and Peoples by William H. McNeill (Anchor)
The Speckled Monster: A Historical Tale of Battling Smallpox by Jennifer Carrell (Dutton Books)