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By Emily Anne Croom Premium

Have you ever considered that a tree's root system is much more extensive than its combined trunk, branches and leaves? The same is true of your family tree: You have more ancestors than you have parents, siblings and children. Discovering your family roots means digging into the past and uncovering those ancestors—solving the puzzles of

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