Ancestry free weekend includes Fold3

[familydar]

Just a heads-up

I'm sure most of you know that Ancestry has one of their "free weekends" going at the moment.  I've discovered that it includes Fold3 records, which my normal sub doesn't cover, so I've picked off all of my fold3 hints and I'm currently downloading my ancestry tree into RootsMagic so that in the coming weeks and months I can still see the records I've attached.

If you have too many hints to be able to easily see which are for fold3 datasets, it is possible to search for hints by dataset.  You need the database id (DBID) and your tree number (TREENUM), slot them into the following and paste the url to your browser address bar:

https://www.ancestry.co.uk/hints/tree/TREENUM/hints?hdbid=DBID&hf=record&hs=last

Some DBIDs which I know are fold3 include
60721
60780
60908
60917
60961
60997
60999
61068
61082
61172
61388
61400
61588
61642
61643
61804
61807

but that's not an exhaustive list.  If anyone knows a way of finding out a full list I'd be most grateful.

Stay safe
Jane :-)

[familyfind]

Showing my ignorance but what are the Fold3 records you are talking about?

[familydar]

The Fold3 records on Ancestry are within a specific dataset of mainly military records that you normally need all access membership for.  Google is your friend.

[familyfind]

many thanks

[flocklet]

Many thanks. Familyfind, you beat me to it 😊😊