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When researching family history, we need to think like historians. For The Conversation U.S. (npub1gpe…88e5), Andrea Kaston Tange gives tips on how we might do that — from what to look for in documents like marriage records, draft cards, maps, censuses and obituaries, to the background reading that might help us understand our ancestors' worlds. "How might anyone with a half-told family story begin to uncover more truths? And what does it take to make sense of them?" she writes.

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