archiving

What's been taking up most of nights and weekends, lately:

If there's one good thing that's come out of Prose Forms, it's been getting a jumpstart on the long piece/s I'm hoping to someday write/compile about Italian and Sicilian culture/my family history/etc. (it's pretty vague right now, as you can tell). I've collected various instances that I'm trying to work with, but mainly, the assignment shot off in the direction you see above.

My brother and I raided our parents' basement for the purpose of preserving paper. I found 4 folders full of documents and photos on my grandfather (father's father). He died at the age of 90 when I was in the 3rd grade.

Most of the documents I'm going through right now revolve around his 1944 office with Warner Brother's in California. The paper seems to be some variation of a carbon copy since most of his personal copies are thinner than bible paper and brittle as glass. My parents don't care about the condition of things, so obviously the documents are in a state of decay and disintegration. They were piled on top of each other and left in a plastic bag.

I'm going through them one by one and typing out the contents, then archiving them in heavy, acid-free sheet protectors. The stack above is probably about 1/8 of what I have done so far. The paper is so thin, I can't tell how many documents there are or how long it will take to finish.