Discusses animal health and safety, pet purchase, veterinarian selection, & a section of  petpourri (activities for kids).

Keep up-to-date with the latest battles to protect wild places and wildlife in the United States.  There is excellent information for kids and adults throughout this website.

Search by artist, movement, title of work, and subjects, among other access points. Also has links to reproductions.

History, museums & galleries, news & reviews.

Provides information on art technique and theory, including the fundamentals of drawing, perspective, shading, color, and painting.

Memorial Art Gallery in Rochester, New York

Home site for the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.

Home site for the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D. C.

Amazon

An Internet bookstore that provides book reviews, recommendations, and many other features.

Great reference source for verse, fiction, non-fiction, quotations, etc.

Offers fiction reading lists, book reviews, forthcoming titles, author information and much more; designed especially for avid fiction readers.

A fun and easy way to find the kind of books you like to read.  Search for books by genre, type and types of characters, plots and settings.

Search one million titles  in this new/used bookstore. Site links to award winners and provides an array of reading lists.

Stocks quotes, daily business & financial news, office tools & travel.

Links to company information and web pages, stock quotes from world markets, and financial news.  Latest news and articles on US and international companies.

Brief company information, including officers, addresses, job information, news and stock quotes.

Created by the editors at Money magazine and its Web site, Money 101 consists of electronic lessons that help you invest, save, borrow and spend more wisely. The essentials of each lesson can be absorbed in just 10 minutes. But all lessons feature greater detail--including calculators, quizzes and a library of supplemental materials--for those who want to dig deeper.

Serious investment advice spattered with humorous observations.  The Motley Fool offers thousands of articles written by investors.  Most of the content is free, but you will need to register to read the financial news articles.

Find out if you have what it takes to be a successful online investor with an eight-question quiz on this web site.  Practice your investing skills and learn to avoid common pitfalls in the consequence-free environment of the Investing Simulator.  Use this site to get a good understanding of online trading.

Contact information for your local bureau by zipcode, access to business and consumer alerts, business and charity reports and a way to file a complaint online.

Car information provided by consumer advocate & auto expert Mark Eskeldson.  This site has lots of tips, and resources to help save money when buying, leasing, and repairing cars.

Kelley's Blue Book is a good site to check for prices when shopping for or selling a new or used car.

Consumer World is a public service, non-commercial guide cataloging over 2000 of useful consumer resources on the Web.

Resources for consumer information from the federal government.  It is designed so that you can locate information by category -- such as Food, Health, Product Safety, Your Money, and Transportation. Each category has subcategories to direct you to areas within individual federal web sites containing related information.

A giant, easy to use site with recipes for every meal, arranged by category or alphabetical.

Customize menus, find recipes or plan meals for special occasions.

Learn from the pro's - lessons & recipes.

A cooking encyclopedia that covers thousands of ingredients and kitchen tools. Entries include pictures, descriptions, synonyms, pronunciations, and suggested substitutions.

An excellent food site which has a searchable database of over 12,000 food recipes and over 1,000 cocktail recipes; restaurant and cookbook reviews; and online editions of Bon Appetit and Gourmet magazines.

20,000 recipes from various shows, entertaining suggestions, profiles of different chefs, cookbook reviews, a wine section, and schedules for the shows.

This site is maintained by the Department of Nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health. Aside from not smoking, the most important determinants of good health are what we eat and how active we are. The site is designed to get you started down the path toward the healthiest diet possible by exploring the latest science about healthy eating for adults and by answering key questions about what you should eat: Should you still be concerned about fat intake? Should you eat more or fewer carbohydrates? What about eggs? Fiber? Calcium?

Recipe Source is the home of SOAR: The Searchable Online Archive of Recipes and your source for recipes on the Internet. Over 70,000 recipes are organized into two major groups - recipes primarily identified with an ethnic cuisine are broken down by region and ethnic group, while other recipes are categorized by the type of dish. The site can also be searched by keyword.

The national organization of and for people with mental retardation and related developmental disabilities and their families.

Information on the United States Federal Program of Services & Resources to Employers, Americans with disabilities & their families.

NICHCY is the national information and referral center that provides information on disabilities and disability-related issues for families, educators, and other professionals. Special focus is children and youth (birth to age 22).

One of the most comprehensive entertainment information databases for music, videos, DVDs and video games offering reviews, biographies, ratings, images, titles, credits, and more.

The ultimate movie reference source, includes exhaustive, searchable database, previous Academy Award winners, and much more!

This site assembles about thirty reviews per movie from publications around the U.S., with links to full reviews.  Movies are ranked and a special section is included on last year's nominated and award-winning films.

Rotten tomatoes is a comprehensive movie review site which captures the consensus of professional critics from across the nation.

TV Guide- Program listings and other features from the popular magazine.

Buffalo Theater

The companion web site to the PBS family history and genealogy television series.

Author: Cyndi Howells There are more than 80,000 links, categorized & cross-referenced in over 140 categories. Includes a section Adoption with 136 links.

Author: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints Contains links to 600 million names of people dating back to 1500 -- many with family charts.  Share information with others who are searching, step-by-step research guidance, and location of other genealogy web sites.

Local cemetery information for Genesee County

The Internet's oldest and largest genealogy site, RootsWeb is the home of the ROOTS-L Mailing List (founded 1987) and the RootsWeb Surname List (founded 1988) and sponsors many large volunteer genealogy projects. The Roots Surname List has over 900,000 surname entries.

One of the largest and easiest to access databases used for genealogical research is the Social Security Death Index (SSDI). Its information can be utilized to help you learn more about your ancestors, as well as your aunts, uncles and cousins. Clues and facts from the SSDI often can be used to further genealogical research by enabling you to locate a death certificate, find an obituary, discover cemetery records and track down probate records.

This digital collection contains selected general interest publications produced by the U.S. Federal Government and received by the University at Buffalo Libraries through the Federal Depository Library Program. They are arranged by general subject area.

Official New York State home page.

Home Page for the American Medical Association

The Centers for Disease Control provides an extensive listing of health topics alphabetically and also by age groups and gender.  There is also a very comprehensive section on health alerts for those traveling outside the country.  At the top of the page are updates on bioterrorism.

Health information for the whole family from the American Academy of Family Physicians.

Health information published by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Scientific data behind herbal remedies.  This site is produced by the Alternative Medicine Foundation.

Information about prescription drugs.  Five different ways to search:  name, keyword, imprint code (number on a tablet or capsule), drug FAQ's, or a medical dictionary.

Sponsored by the American Heart Association, this site includes an online exercise diary, FAQs regarding exercise and heart disease, body composition tests, children's exercise needs, exercises for older people, etc., and links to other health resources.

Parenting tips, information about childhood illnesses, growth schedules, book reviews, and product recalls.

Provides doctor-approved health information about children from before birth through adolescence.  KidsHealth has separate areas for kids, teens, and parents -- each with its own design, age-appropriate content, and tone.

The mission of MayoClinic.com is to help people find the answers and the support they need to manage illness and stay healthy.

MedicineNet is an online, healthcare media publishing company.  It provides easy-to-read, in-depth, authoritative medical information for consumers.

A service of the National Library of Medicine, this site includes information on numerous conditions and prescription drugs, a medical dictionary, and sources for more information.

NIH is the nation's medical research agency - making important medical discoveries that improve health and save lives.

Full-text health information for consumers that is accurate, timely, relevant and unbiased. NOAH currently supports English and Spanish.

Guide to Health Fraud, Quackery, and Intelligent Decisions.

Up-to-date information on stroke for patients and their families and caregivers, as well as health professionals.  Links to information about organizations, clinical trials, and treatment centers.  From the Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri.

Commercial site that gives general health information and definitions, prescription drug information, health news, nutritional advice, and support groups.