Follow Friday: This Week’s Favorite Finds

I hope that everyone had a very merry Christmas and got to spend a lot of quality time with their families.  I’ve enjoyed having my husband at home and taking a break from homeschooling the kids.  Today we’re heading to White Sands – and we’re going to do some sand sledding!!  Doesn’t it sound like fun?  I really miss the beach, so I’m going to pretend that there is water just past one of the sand dunes.

Here are my favorite finds from this week:

• Michelle Goodrum, of The Turning of Generations, has a great new series starting this January: The 21st Century Organized Family Historian.  I am definitely in need of some organizing – especially in the paperwork department.  It’s coming out my ears right now and I know that I need to get a good handle on it before we move again in June. I’m looking forward to the advice and projects she posts!!
• Are you ready for the 1940 census??  The NARA has a page on what we can do in preparation for the census release in April.  I’ve also signed up for a webinar in January: Introduction to the 1940 Federal Census.   
• I have been enjoying reading everyone’s goals for 2012 and plan on posting mine soon.
• Family Tree Rings had a wonderful post about “uploading the cedar chest“.
• Linda Gartz of Family Archaeologist  has quite the treasure in her mother’s diary.  Explosive News!  is a great read.
• I can’t imagine how horrific life must have been in an insane asylum a hundred years ago.  Teresa at Rogers Family History had an interesting (and sad) post about the Trenton Insane Asylum and two sisters who lived there.

And a few pictures from this past week.  We had a White Christmas Eve here in El Paso and then the day after Christmas we had a nice comfortable day at the zoo.  Crazy weather.