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Useful Internet Sites for RS Leaders
Ann Amadori

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
 
 

8/99
 
 

Ann & Bob Amadori
 

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