Unfortunately, many serious (cancerous) diseases often develop due to genetic predisposition, i.e. there is a higher probability of developing certain diseases.

Patients are often unaware of this, as the frequency of occurrence in the family is not exclusively indicated by the parents, but the diseases sometimes skip some generations.

In addition, patients often have no or only very limited knowledge of their ancestors' illnesses, e.g. due to disrupted family structures and emigration.

This is where we want to offer you our services, in cooperation with an institution and, in an initial test run. If you are interested and have little or no knowledge of your ancestors’ disease histories, we would like to offer you to genealogically work through these, free of charge. This will enable you to take early precautions in consultation with your doctor, should there be a cluster of a disease in your family. It must be expressly mentioned, however, that Historikerkanzlei will act exclusively in a genealogical capacity and will of course not be undertaking any medical or human genetic evaluation.

If you are interested in such a genealogical investigation, please send an e-mail to Christoph Unger (unger@historiker.at) with the subject "Genealogische Untersuchung auf hereditäre Krankheitshäufung".

As we are currently in a test run, our offer is initially limited to a few people with residence and presumed ancestors in the territory of present-day Austria and we reserve the right to choose which persons we select for this purpose.