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General => The Common Room => Topic started by: deejayEn on Saturday 08 November 25 23:15 GMT (UK)
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As I previously tried using Fold3 as a free trial I got a message today saying that access to WWI and WWII records was free until 16 Nov. However after logging in and searching I found a WWII medal record and I was unable to see it. Has anyone got any advice on how to see the records or is it a con to get you to sign up?
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You need to read the small print.
Free access to the featured collections seems to be limited to certain USA forces records only!
https://www.fold3.com/go/free-access?xid=7952&utm_source=Internal&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=VeteransDayFA_Nov-2025
Tony
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Couldn't see no small print, certainly not in the email or on the page I was directed to. What a shame.
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at bottom of the email is a link to search for all collections you coud use and thats only bit that tells you bit of a cheat really :'(
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Hi,
Have you checked the online databases available through your public library? The Toronto Public Library has free access to Fold 3 - as long as you are signed in with your library card. The database is accessible from patrons' home computers and through computers located in library branches :). If we have the database, other libraries may as well....
RK
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Thanks for the tip but I'm in the UK and while public libraries here have access to Ancestry it doesn't include Fold3.
Being in Canada could I ask if you could look up an ancester of mine who emigrated to Canada in 19121, he was Joseph Edward Albert Beakhurst, b 1898. He was a soldier. I can't find out what happened to him after 1921
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Hi,
The Fold 3 in my library is a separate database from Ancestry. It is listed independently :)
1921 census, this may be him in Quebec
https://recherche-collection-search.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/home/record?app=census&idnumber=70760632&ecopy=e003103376
RK
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Is this his arrival in 1920 - coming to Canada to be a solider??
http://www.rootschat.com/links/01u37/
See image 1373
RK
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Yes those are both him, I have seen those records but can't find out what happened to him afterwards. I think he tried to cross the order in the US in 1922 but didn't succeed.
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The internet definition of 'free' is somewhat different to the generally accepted real world definition.
Don't get me started on the likes of youtube & Yahoo mail who force me to have adverts or pay to be ad free, in the case of Yahoo the new ad banner leaves just a tiny window & covers all but the two most recent emails.
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Don't remember seeing anyone wanting to immigrate to become a soldier before! (Occupation "Teamster" on immigration) I see that Joseph claimed to have also spoken Russian?
Odd that Joseph claimed (while in his choice of military service) to have immigrated in 1914 on the 1921 Quebec census. So you're searching for the evidence of a military past in England?
I see that he was in an institution 1911 census & that father Joseph was also in one as a lad & again as an adult as well.
It was/had a military school - in Hereford St Owen, Hereford City, Herefordshire, England
www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X7J1-MJL
The census info, although not yet connected to it... also points to a family tree!!!
J.J.
*Oops, deleting those results I added...were for surname Beckhurst
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JJ - many thanks for the info, you have actually replied to a different thread but I still found it okay.
It is odd that Joseph emigrated to Canada to join the army but his passage was paid for by the Church Army which was something different.
It's possibe that he could have spoken Russian because I recently found out that his cousin married a Russian man who had emigrated to Canada but landed in Britiain after WWI, they married in Hampstead, London before leaving to live in Canada.
That itself is odd because I would have thought he might have their names as to whom he is going to live with. But the person he does list is his aunt Sarah Chester although she lives in America not Canada, I would have thought if you were emigrating to Canada you would have to give a Canadian address.
I have already found the details of Joseph's ealier life and how his parents more or less abandoned him and he grew up in care and an industrial school. I just wanted to see if he had a happy ending and built a life in Canada or America but he seems to disappear.
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Hi, deejayEn... Your request was indeed on the previous page of this very thread.
https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=894901.msg7694550
It is only natural to look beyond the recent knowns, and I was searching for any other relatives in Canada who might have preceded him ( If he never entered the states, then where was he?) and also trying to figure out the circumstances of his connection with the military.
Good luck with your searches, but...If you have other posts on this person, you should link to them & post urls to connect them in order to avoid duplication & searches you might deem unnecessary! J.J.