Needless to say, this was a very long process which took an endless amount of years to conclude. With the help of other individuals, he began grouping the marriages by surname and village forming an indexing system, consequently making research easier. The main scope of this system was, and still remains that of compiling family tree charts. All together Don Carlo Muscat wrote no less than 250 volumes of informative material, each volume consisting of around 1000 pages. After his death in 1942, his niece Mary Anne Muscat took over until 1980 when Mary Lanfranco, a cousin of Mary Anne was asked to carry on the mission, which she gladly accepted. By the mid 90’s, Mary’s husband Antoine became involved as well. It was then that the need was felt to update the marriages found in the archives which had not been updated for the previous 60 years. Today, the ‘Lanfranco’ archives are made up of over 600 volumes of reference books making it the largest collection of family history records on the Maltese islands.