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Title: Decoding the Past: How AI and Citizen Archivists Are Solving 200-Year-Old Document MysteriesIntroduction (150–200 words) For centuries, paper has been the vessel of human memory: wills, ship logs, merchant ledgers, letters, and court records that together map families, communities, and nations. Yet a vast portion of that memory remains locked away — in faded ink, tangled cursive, and brittle paper — unreadable to modern search tools and often inaccessible to scholars. Today a new…