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Certainly this is a good idea:p:p but also, for the moment try Wikipedia (see Weblinks) or go to the glossary for those families eg. blow fly added to it.
Wiki can be accessed this way too Go to blowfly in the glossary then type the family name into the Wikipedia search box.

The families (The genera of early workers such as Linnaeus, Fabricius) are the most easily recognized higher taxa (see glossary for this term) but Paul is sadly right about those small features but the rules of thumb not so easy to make. Recognizing the differences, say, between the Fanniiidae (slender bodied) and the stouter bodied Muscidae is a start. Then look at Kahis? thread comment on Thricops for a possible error here. Then learn that Tachinidae are more bristled than either. Is all about experience. Can we all agree that an expert has made more mistakes than anyone else (but learned from them) ?. I personally favour comments on behaviour ie. waving wings for many Sepsidae on the Gallery pages. Robert