In this work, only facts or outer events are important. The personality structure of family members is not relevant.
Did any of the following happen in your mothers or father family?
Early death? Did someone die under the age of 30? Or in the case of a mother or father, did one or both of them die when their children were still under the age of 15?
Still-births? Especially important are sickness or death during or after giving birth (even of the great-grandmother).
Suicide or suicide attempts?
Crimes? (especially murder)
Was anyone cheated/injustices (e.g. of their inheritance)?
Was anyone very rich (at someone else’s expense)?
Was anyone slandered or made outcast? Disowned, condemned or dishonoured?
Incest, abuse?
Heavy incidents or fate?
Illegitimate children or children who were given away?
Heavy illness, disabilities or mental illness?
Emigrants/immigrants?
Drug addictions, alcoholism?
Genocide, war, soldiers lost in war?
Religious Orders, convent?
Previous important relationships of the parents (i.e. marriage partners, fiancés or first loves)?