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The Family Archive: A Shoebox, a Hard Drive, and a Shelf

Eliot Bracken has been the unofficial archivist of his extended family for nineteen years. He is forty-four, an actuary, and lives in St. Paul. He keeps the family photographs on three external hard drives, the family letters in two Bankers Boxes, and the family stories on a Google Doc that is eighty-one pages long.

Jude Eaton · May 30, 2026