Digital Archive

How should I index myself so that you can retrieve & cut me from the 1970 catalogs of infant headshots & paste me beside you? This I wanted to know while the grandfather held up his 1940 photo of three men laughing beside a new Buick. He said, "If you could identify them, then my life would be changed forever." If anyone knows the names for paper as vulnerable as skin, then please tell me if I find my birth documents burned, ripped, or yellowed with information missing, or if I don't find them at all? I listened as the panelists advised the grandfather to search the database, my body like too much information unsorted: all errors, useless without a way to see it linked to get somewhere. My arms disappearing while the grandfather passed his laminated photo around the room.