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Terri

12-01-17, 09:32

In Military Records general search, I've searched for Abel Cuff.

The record I want is there, first one on the list:

Disciplinary action on 22 Feb 1887 and on the left, it says "view original image on Fold3". This is under a little box with Fold3 on it.

What is Fold3? No amount of mouse-clicking does anything!

kiterunner

12-01-17, 09:47

Fold3 is a website which belongs to ancestry and specialises in military records. It used to be called Footnote.
https://www.fold3.com/

Until very recently, it was just for US military records, but in the last few months, ancestry has also started using it for new (to them) UK military databases too, and they only put the indexes onto ancestry, but not with a "Web:" prefix like their indexes to databases on other websites, so it is not immediately obvious that they aren't on ancestry.

There is a new level of ancestry subscription which includes Fold3 and newspapers.com as well as ancestry - the "All Access membership" - but it is quite a bit more expensive than a world sub and I would think only worth it if you have a lot of US military ancestors and you want to look at US newspapers. (Same goes for subscribing to Fold3 separately, except of course then you wouldn't even get the newspapers included.)

Fold3 does also offer a 7 day free trial and I assume you have to make sure to cancel it before they start charging. Also, it was included in a recent ancestry "free access" weekend, so you could wait until they do another one and hope it's included again. I don't think libraries have Fold3 included in their ancestry access.

Edit - just have to add, I thought I would check whether "All access" includes any other extras which I hadn't mentioned, so I looked at my "upgrade options" on ancestry (I have a worldwide sub) and it showed All Access as the upgrade option; I clicked to "compare the memberships" and it just showed me Essentials, Premium and Worldwide!