memorial vs paper trail

memorial

noun
  • A statement of facts set out in the form of a petition to a person in authority, a court or tribunal, a government, etc. 

  • Something, such as a monument, by which someone or something is remembered. 

  • A chronicle or memoir. 

  • A service of remembrance or commemoration. 

adj
  • Serving as a remembrance of someone or something; commemorative. 

  • Contained in the memory. 

paper trail

noun
  • A written record, history, or collection of evidence. 

  • Records left by a person or organization in the course of activities. 

  • Physical evidence of something that occurred in the past. 

How often have the words memorial and paper trail occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )