The system SHALL provide the ability to manage family history according to organizational policy and/or jurisdictional law.

The system SHOULD provide the ability to capture, maintain, and transmit a request-for-correction to family history that was captured from an external source. Note: There could be multiple types of errors, both unintentional and intentional; the errors could also reside in multiple storage locations (primary, secondary, and intermediary); the errors could also reside in current records or in archived records; there could also be multiple sources (author, custodian-of-record, transcriptionist).

The system SHOULD provide the ability for the PHR Account Holder to annotate the family history with text comments (e.g., "Great-grandmother Alice was lost at sea” and that "Uncle Robert disagrees with the cause-of-death attributed to great-grandmother Alice".)

The system SHALL provide the ability to enter missing information regarding the family history.

The system MAY provide the ability to exchange family history entries with the PHR Accounts of other family members according to user preference and/or consent, user role, organizational policy, and/or jurisdictional law.