by genetic susceptibility, shared environments, and common behaviors. Assessment of the patient's ethnicity/family of origin is an integral part of the multigenerational family history, particularly in the diagnosis of chronic diseases and the assessment of risks for genetic disorders. The multigenerational family history is important in diagnosis, predictive genetic testing, disease prevention, and health promotion. Challenges facing NPs and the utilization of a multigenerational family history in the current U.S. health system include (a) training clinicians on the correct assessment and utilization of a multigenerational family history, (b) assessment of the subtleties of ethnicity and identifying multiple ethnic groups within a family, (c) collection of the family history in a manner that is sensitive to the cultural beliefs of individuals, and (d) avoidance of stereotyping. Significant advances incertain men lived upon the
earth, whose names are recorded in this sacred history (the Bible),
who were called to be the chosen servants of God, and whom the Lord
blessed in a peculiar manner. I refer now to the Patriarchs, and more
especially to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, three very worthy men, so
worthy that the Lord chose them as repre-sentatives of the faithful in
all future ages, and declared that all who should be saved in future
ages should became their seed, either springing directly from their
loins, or being adopted, through the Gospel, into the family of
Abraham, who was to be called the father of the faithful: that is the
father not only of the faithful who lived from his day until the
coming of Christ, but of all who should live after Christ who