Personal files are entities loaded with memory. In this present documentary research about on personal archives, the theoretical and field experience of authors who, from of valorization their various documentary typologies, they place in value these archives and contribute whit new postulates to the archival theory dynamic. The generalities and particularities of personal archives are presented, the postulate of the archiving exercise is rescued, which, complemented whit the exercise of memory, manages to continue building personal and social identity, resignifying spaces as places of the memory.