The short biographies on this site can be sorted alphabetically or by claim to fame. The Everton Web site is stocked with useful genealogical information. You'll still have to go down to an LDS branch library to view microfilm ordered from Salt Lake City, but you won't have to spend as much time there. Other resources are also available at the site. Families today Perhaps, though, you're less concerned with your ancestors and more concerned with the here and now.
Subjects covered include family travel and fun, parenting, pregnancy and birth, food and education.
Parent Soup is another parenting site with loads of information. Advice on all aspects of parenting is available. Swoon is a production of CondeNet. There's good reason the content has the feel of Glamour or Mademoiselle. Swoon has articles, horoscopes, forums and chats and more.