If you like looking at family photos, you know it’s fun to look at artifacts. Artifacts can help you learn about family history. You can be the family historian! Historians study history to learn about the past.
Some artifacts are primary sources. Primary sources are documents and objects from the actual time in the past. They can also be stories, recordings, or conversations with people who were actually there.
Other artifacts are secondary sources. Secondary sources are articles or other objects that were created later than the time in the past. The people who created them were not actually there.
