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Useful Internet Resources for Relief Society Leaders
Fredericksburg VA Stake Relief Society
I. Great Resources for Planning Homemaking Mini Classes and Provident Living Lessons:
Better Homes and Gardens Home Improvement Encyclopedia:
http://www.bhglive.com/homeimp/docs/index.htm
Budgeting:
http://www.flash.net/~mjmurphy/index.html
Canning at Home:
http://www.foodsafety.org/canhome.htm
http://ohioline.ag.ohio-state.edu/hyg-fact/5000/5339.html
http://ohioline.ag.ohio-state.edu/hyg-fact/5000/5340.html
Cars - what any buyer needs to know about new and used vehicles:
http://www.kbb.com/
http://www.edmunds.com/
Checklist Central:
http://home1.gte.net/checklst/
Christmas
http://home.swbell.net/rheba/notebook.html
http://home.swbell.net/rheba/plan.html
http://www.wipd.com/~blackham/1christmasstories.htm
http://www.wipd.com/~blackham/1christmasgifts.htm
http://www.marvelcreations.com/xmas2.html
Crafts
http://www.michaels.com/main/mic-main.html
Freezer and Refrigerator Tips, and recommended shelf times:
http://www.ziploc.com/
Genealogy:
http://www.oz.net/~cyndihow/sites.htm
http://lds.miningco.com/
Fredericksburg, VA: http://www.rootsweb.com/~vacfrede/
LDS Church –
http://32.96.111.13/default.asp
Home Improvement, Remodeling, Repair:
http://www.hometime.com/
Interior Decorating, do-it-yourself projects, wallpaper and paint estimators,
and more.
http://interiordec.miningco.com/
Plumbing Repairs:
http://www.clickit.com/bizwiz/homepage/plumber.htm
Preparedness:
PREP - Subscribe to email list or search archives:
http://www.ldscn.com/bin/powersearch/lists18
American Red Cross:
http://www.redcross.org/index.shtml
Camping Tips:
http://members.aol.com/frugally4u/campingtips.html
Emergency Preparedness Manual:
http://www.burgoyne.com/pages/gpope/epm/index1.htm
FEMA: http://www.fema.gov/
First Aid Kits:
http://cac.psu.edu/~jxm181/scouts/leader/fa-kit.html
Food Storage Recipes:
http://waltonfeed.com/grain/cookin/
http://www.americanbean.org/
http://www2.state.id.us/bean/
- lots of information about beans!
Free Software:
http://www.beprepared.com/
Natural Disaster Preparedness Information:
http://www.fema.gov/pte/prep.htm
Natural Disaster Program for Families:
http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/fcs/disaster
http://www.vdes.state.va.us/subready.htm
http://www.lifelink.com/famplan.htm
Personal Safety:
http://www.softport-co.com/safety/
http://www.nra.org/rtbav/rtbvtips.html
Solar Cooking:
http://www.accessone.com/~sbcn
Weekly Preparedness tips:
http://www.beprepared.com/Insight/insight.html
Water Purification and Storage:
http://www.beprepared.com/Articles/emergwater.html
http://www.beprepared.com/Articles/waterstorage.html
http://wwwbeprepared.com/Articles/waterpur.html
http://www.fema.gov/library/emfdwtr.htm
Emergency Essentials free newsletter on preparedness:
http://www.beprepared.com/Insight/insight.html
Quilting - free patterns:
http://www.cranstonvillage.com/visitor/visitors.htm
http://ttsw.com/MainQuiltingPage.html
http://www.delphi.com/quilting/found.html
http://www.his.com/~queenb/index.html
http://bankswith.apollotrust.com/~larryb/PCPiecers.htm
http://quilting.miningco.com/
Recipes:
http://www.ebicom.net/kitchen/page/cpidx.htm
http://www.mymenus.com/
http://www.virtualcities.com/ons/recipe.htm
http://soar.berkeley.edu/recipes/
http://fleet.mail-list.com/archives/realfood
http://www2.state.id.us/bean/recipes/
http://www.americanbean.org/
Stain Removal Guide:
http://www.chemistry.co.nz/stain_frame.htm
The Dollar Stretcher - free weekly newsletter, as well as archives,
on numerous money saving subjects:
http://www.stretcher.com/dollar/index.htm
To SUBSCRIBE send e-mail to [email protected] with 'subscribe' in
the subject and your e-mail address in the body of the message
Toiletology 101: A Complete Course in Toilet Repairs:
http://www.toiletology.com/
Vegetable gardening:
http://hammock.ifas.ufl.edu/txt/fairs/vh/19996_NG.html
http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/hort/hil/hil-8105.html
http://www.hoptechno.com/book26.htm
II. Other Great Resources:
Children:
http://www.michaels.com/projects/
http://www.pbs.org/kids/
http://www.ktca.org/donnasday/index.html
Free Clipart - Add a little spice to your fliers advertising Homemaking
or other activities:
http://www.itsnet.com/~highland/lds-02.html
http://www.davejennings.freeserve.co.uk/clipmenu.html
http://www.inspiregraphics.com/lds/
http://www2.dtc.net/~mpearce/graphics.htm
http://www.mormons.com/search/Graphics/
Also -Check this out for Primary or Children's class:
http://www2.crosswinds.net/~christy/New_Main_Page.html
And if you like Country Clip art take a look at this web page.
There must be hundreds of clip art graphics. If you want to save
images to your hard drive, right click on the graphic you want and save
to a folder. There must be hundreds and they are CUTE!
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Meadows/7597/cgindex.html
Free Sheet Music:
http://members.aol.com/defordm1/
http://www.uleth.ca/~anderson/midi.htmlx
http://www.petriefamily.org/ldsmusic/
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Prairie/9844/mommusic.html
http://www.ldsmusic.org/legacy/
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/LeftBank/9629/roxmusic.html
Friendshipping - Send a cyber-card to a friend:
http://www.bluemountain.com/index.html
http://www.netgreeting.com/default.asp?CardID=Friends
http://www.zing.com/cgi-bin/zc_main.cgi
http://ldsweb.org/postcards/
Gifts in a Jar
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Flats/1894/giftsjar.html
Other gift ideas
http://members.xoom.com/LBlake/Holidays_Christmas103ideas.htm
III. LDS
The official LDS Church web site:
http://www.lds.org/
The Church News: If you are subscribed you can read it on line,
and even do keyword searches of past issues:
http://www.ldschurchnews.com/cgi-bin/LDSLogin.cgi?URI:/cn/home.htm
General Conference:
http://www.lds.org/en/3_General_Conference_en/General_Conference_en.html
http://www.desnews.com/confer/main.htm
http://138.87.168.227/main.htm
http://www.ksl.com/TV/lds/arch1098.htm
BYU Conferences and Workshops:
http://advance.byu.edu/upghome.html
The Nauvoo Project:
http://nauvoo.byu.edu/
Devotional Addresses:
http://advance.byu.edu/devo.html
Miscellaneous LDS Internet resources:
http://www.indirect.com/www/crockett/lds.html
Pursuit of Excellence-Celestial University
http://lds.miningco.com/library/poe/blpoe.htm
Relief Society - Visiting Teaching, service, etc.
http://www.mormons.org/rs/index.htm
http://members.aol.com/perudol1/rs.htm
http://members.aol.com/Charity4us/TSSMAIN.html
http://www.of-worth.com/ea/visitteach.htm
http://members.tripod.com/~hometeaching/fridge.html
http://www.lds-index.org/rel-soc.htm
http://www.wipd.com/~westra/insp.htm
Service -
http://www.wipd.com/~westra/insp.htm
http://www.fredericksburg.com/community/volunteer2.htm
Washington DC Singles:
http://www.ldsdcsingles.com/
IV. Miscellaneous:
Product ReviewNet- online reviews for many products
http://www.productreviewnet.com/
Entertainment Reviews for Parents: http://www.screenit.com/
Zip Code Lookup: http://www.usps.gov/ncsc
Find people: http://www.switchboard.com/
Look up a phone number: http://www.555-1212.com/whte_us.htm
Mapquest: http://www.mapquest.com/
What time is it?: http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/time.html
Government publications: http://www.pueblo.gsa.gov/
Search engines that search other search engines automatically:
http://www.dogpile.com/
http://www.metacrawler.com/
V. Free Email Lists and Newsletters You Can Subscribe To
(Some do not require Internet access)
Emergency Essentials free newsletter on preparedness:
http://www.beprepared.com/Insight/insight.html
Other LDS email lists
http://www.wnetc.com/scripture-l/lds.lists.html
PREP - Subscribe to email list or search archives:
http://www.ldscn.com/bin/powersearch/lists18
Real Food for Real People: receive a free recipe each day
To subscribe, send a blank message to
[email protected]
Archives at: http://fleet.mail-list.com/archives/realfood
relief_society-L for sisters with callings in Relief Society:
To subscribe send a blank email message addressed as follows:
relief [email protected]
The Dollar Stretcher - a free weekly newsletter, as well as archives
on numerous money saving subjects:
http://www.stretcher.com/dollar/index.htm
To SUBSCRIBE send e-mail to [email protected]
with
'subscribe' in the
subject and your e-mail address in the body of the message
Tips on using the Internet - a free biweekly email newsletter, as well
as archives:
http://www.tourbus.com/
To subscribe, send the following command in the BODY of your e-mail
to
[email protected] : SUBSCRIBE
TOURBUS
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Ann & Bob Amadori