Knowing the following facts about your life and members of your family may be helpful to your work:

• Previous partners (spouses, fiancées, deep first loves) of yours, your parents, your grandparents, or spouse
  

• Miscarriages, abortions, and stillbirths
  

• Adoptions and children viewed as a secret
  

• War experience
  

• Indigenous First Nations’ ancestry
  

• Family members who survived or perished in the Holocaust or Pogroms
  

• Third Reich or Nazi military experience
  

• Ancestors who enslaved African American, First Nations’, or other people(s)
  

• Enslavement or persecution histories
  

• Ku Klux Klan membership or victimization
  

• Accidents, suicides, and murders
  

• Severe illness and sudden deaths
  

• Mental illness (diagnosed or undiagnosed)
  

• Severe financial hardship
  

• Unacknowledged hardship
  

• Prison experience (either unfairly punished or lack of consequences for criminal action)
  

• Unrecognized gay, lesbian, and other sexual minority family members
  

• Immigration experience
  

• Religious traditions that have been lost or excluded
  

• Excluded family members
  

• Other unusual facts
  

  Questions? Please contact Lisa Iversen at 360-223-3538 or famconwest@yahoo.com.com.