02 November 2020

Ancestry opens up militrary records until Remembrance Day

Until 11 Nov 2020 at 11:59 p.m. ET Ancestry has opened its global military collections, and Fold3 to free access.

Free access, with registration, includes Canadian, US and UK military collections and Deutsche Militärgeschichte (German Military Histories), 1500-1942.

After the free access period ends, you will only be able to view the records in the featured collections using a paid Ancestry membership. 

I've not been able to verify the Fold3 collections included.

6 comments:

  1. Thanks for the info. Usually, you have to pay to use Fold3 from Ancestry. About a month to two months ago, I gave in and got a subscription. After all, we don't know when the Family History Centers are going to reopen.

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  2. Crossing my fingers for the Fold3 collection being opened up as well..I have some more records I need from there...

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  3. I cannot afford another separate subscription and would welcome Ancestry opening up Fold3 as well. These items used to all be available with an Ancestry subscription so I am thankful that I downloaded most of what I needed before the records went to Fold3. I tried to access Fold3 documents just now and they wanted a subscription. How do you get it free?

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  4. Some libraries may have access to it if they can afford the extra subscription...

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  5. Fold3 is only including Canadian records, not UK ones, which for those of us with UK ancestors is sad...but definitely still a first world problem.

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  6. Have been trying to access Newspapers.com content through this offer since November 6th and all I get is prompts to subscribe. Misleading advertising.

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