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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.