I have created a beginner's list of Commonly Used Abbreviations, including those for most European countries, for the United States and for Canadian provinces. It will help you to prepare your genealogical data in a form familiar to many other researchers.
Here are two locations where you are automatically given the county name when you specify a city and state. Having a complete location (state, county, city) is often useful in knowing where to go to request documents, for example.
Cyndi's List Internet Stuff You Need to Know contains links to resources for each of the following categories:
Computer Viruses
Cookies
Copyright Resources on the Web
E-mail Chain-Letters, Folklore, Hoaxes, Misunderstandings & Scams
Internet & Computer Terminology
Netiquette
Newbies
Privacy Issues
Search Engines: Helpful Sites, Articles and Tips
Software Features and Utilities
Spam
Y2K ~ Year 2000
Cyndi's List is a must for beginning on-line genealogy researchers. It contains so many links to good resources that it can be a bit overwhelming at first, but it is almost universally considered the best single source.
Many people are interested in adding "background music" to their web pages. Here are two locations where you can get music. It's not free but very reasonable. I think it's $5 for 20 tunes. There's a form to fill out then they mail you your selections on a floppy disk or a CD ROM if you prefer. Then you can load what you want on your site.
filecity.com has everything from rock and roll to classical including religious and holidays.
The Melodious MIDI includes a large classical section with thousands of files. Most composers are represented. A major award-winning cultural site on the Web which provides its own search engine
Here are some more URLs for Midi files. Some are free; others require a subscription.
The MIDI Farm Similar to Filecity.Com in appearance; lots of options
Apple City Free MIDI Files 100s listed by title in half a dozen categories
German and Other Folksongs 100s of choices; genealogy & related info
The Midi Music Website
Altojazz Midi Files
Classical Music Archives A huge selection with several composers having their own separate web pages
Laura's MIDI Heaven 24 categories; over 16,000 choices
Goodnoise the Internet Record Company
MIDI World International
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