Don't try this at home...

Trust me. There's a better day of the year to interview your elders about how and when your ancestors passed. Honestly, someone thinks this is a good idea??

Before the family sits down to dinner today, the U.S. surgeon general wants you to whip out your smart phone and type in your family health history.

On Thanksgiving Day — perhaps the only time of the year when the whole family is together — Surgeon General Regina Benjamin is encouraging Americans to interview their relatives about the diseases that run in the family, age of onset and how the illnesses were treated.
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The questions may be awkward and the answers imprecise, but the creation of a permanent record is important, she said, for the healthy future of the family.

Pass the potatoes, please...
What a catch by Colston!...
Oh, and what ever became of Uncle Albert anyway? ...

Aack! It gets worse:

Lisa Marton, of Boca Raton, belongs to one of those high-risk families. Her grandfather and mother had breast cancer. Marton had a prophylactic mastectomy three years ago.

She found the surgeon general's My Family Health Portrait site online and encouraged her 822 Facebook friends to record their histories. She plans to remind them on Thanksgiving Day with a tweet, and said she will urge her brother to assess his cancer risk when the family assembles Thursday.

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Yeah, right. -- "Love you too, big sis!"