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Adoption.Com
- Looking to adopt? Pregnant and considering adoption? Searching
for a lost birth relative? This site has information on all facets
of adoption, both national and international, and includes both
a registry of hopeful adoptive parents and photolistings of adoptable
children.
Children's
Literature Web Guide - An exhaustive resource for children's
books, including recommended titles for children and young adults,
awards, lists of movies and television shows based on children's
books, and much, much more.
The
Complete Home Medical Guide - Prepared by Columbia University
College of Physicians and Surgeons.
Consumer
Guide to Funeral and Cemetery Purchases - Legal requirements
about all aspects of funerals and cemeteries including price,
burial, embalming, home death care, et.
FinanCenter
- Smart personal finance made easy. Use the site's various
financial calculators to help you with decisions about budgeting,
savings, mortgages, car-buying, retirement, investments, etc.Insurance News Network - Your
guide to auto, home and life insurance.
Librarians'
Guide to Cyberspace for Parents and Kids. Compiled by the
American Library Association. Includes links to over 700 great
sites for kids.
ParenthoodWeb
- Parenting, pregnancy, family, childcare, breastfeeding and
other issues of interest to moms and dads.ParentSoup - News and information
for expectant parents to parents of teens, education, and college
links help, summer camps listing, baby name finder, and Ask-the-Expert.
ParentsPlace.Com
- Turn here for answers to your parenting questions. Includes
Ask-an-Expert, message boards, news, fun and games, recipes,
a reading room, and more.Screen-It - Parent-oriented
reviews of popular movies, music and videos. If you are concerned
about what your kids are watching and listening to, this is a
good site to check out.
Wedding
- Planning a wedding? Look here first. Links to wedding traditions,
music, etiquette, photography, readings, invitations, attire,
legal issues, and even a compatability questionaire. The WWW
page for the newsgroup soc.couples.wedding.
The
Cook's Thesaurus - Suggests substitutes for thousands of
cooking ingredients, including low-calorie and low-fat alternatives
for dieters, inexpensive substitutes for gourmets on a budget,
replacements for hard-to-find ethnic ingredients, and alternatives
for those with a lactose intolerance.
Epicurious
- The site "for people who eat." A collection of nearly
7,500 recipes with hundreds more added each week, including many
from Bon Appetit and Gourmet magazines.
The
Kitchen Link - A master index to over 7,300 food and cooking-related
sites on the Net. Includes an archive of 9,000 recipes.
SOAR
- The Searchable Online Archive of Recipes - What's for dinner?
The answer's here, somewhere. This mega-site has over 38,000
recipes currently indexed. Maintained by a team at the University
of California at Berkeley, SOAR is also an excellent resource
for ethnic recipes. You'll even find recipes for crafts and dog
treats here.
Veggies
Unite - Your on-line guide to vegetarianism. More than 2,000
vegan recipes.
Garden
Gate - A great card catalog of gardening sites. Starting
here, you can track down an array of newsgroups, mailing lists,
software, online books, databases, and discussion groups on plants.
The
WWW Virtual Library Gardening Links - Links to many regional
and international gardening sites, databases, garden events,
mailing lists, associations, nurseries, and more.Better
Homes and Gardens Home Improvement Encyclopedia - Features
five principle sections: Plumbing, Wiring, Carpentry, Decks,
and Masonry & Concrete. Info includes estimated time, required
skills and tools, cautions, and links to related projects.
Home
Maintenance and Repair - Sink clogged? Carpet stained? Roof
leaking? Learn how to fix anything by consulting this huge directory
of full-text articles on thousands of home maintenance and repair
topics. Compiled by Michigan State University Extension.
The International
Real Estate Digest - Real estate listings from all over the
world. Links to current mortgage rates.
Lowe's
"'How-To' Information for Do-It-Yourselfers" -
Need to fertilize your lawn, paint your house or build a deck?
Stop here first for step-by-step guidelines to all your home
improvement projects.
Theplumber.com
- Basic info on water heaters, toilets, drains, faucets, disposals,
dishwashersd and water distribution.Reader's Digest At Home -
A virtual smorgasbord of concise information on home repair,
cooking, health, and gardening.
Realtor.Com
- A database of thousands of homes and Realtors across the U.S.
Also, moving toolkit and mortgage info.
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