Today we salute the brave firemen and women of the Fire Department New York City. Many gave their lives in the performance of their duties on the September 11th, 2001. At this website you can find out the mission of the department, and what these people do in the routine performance of their job.
http://www.ci.nyc.ny.us/html/fdny/html/home2.html
Finding a good book to read can be difficult. Finding several books on the same topic that are good to read can be next to impossible. But today’s FamSite is one that will help make that job much easier. Called The Booklist Center, it is a comprehensive list of books on all topics imaginable. The…
Today is one of the more famous days in our nation’s history. It was on this day the event, which caused us to enter into one of the bloodiest wars of all time, took place. Today’s FamSite looks at a site that remembers the events of the “date which will live in infamy”. Called December…
One of the features that I enjoy about computers is the fun you can have with them. One way we do that at work is to come up with unique and unusual sounds that can be played on them. I don’t just mean dings and dongs, but lines from movies, sounds of machinery, you get…
Technology has changed our lives over the past 40 years. My children cannot understand how my brother and I lived with only one television set, and one channel. The science fiction of yesterday has become the science fact of today. The Family Site of the Day takes a look at a site that explores some…
The stories of great explorers that have opened the unknown parts of the planet are numerous, and quite adventure filled. But none have quite matched the subject of today’s FamSite for the sheer magnitude of what was accomplished, and how it was done. Called The Endurance, it is a site dedicated to the journey of…
The past several days has seen many ceremonies and salutes to the men and women who have severed our country in the armed forces. Soldier, sailor, marine, pilot, dogface or nurse, they all deserve our gratitude for the sacrifices they have made. Many times it is hard for children and grandchildren of veterans to fully…