Help needed accessing free Fold3 records

[deejayEn]

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?

[tonepad]

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

[deejayEn]

Couldn't see no small print, certainly not in the email or on the page I was directed to. What a shame.

[sandiep]

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 

[RunKitty]

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 

[deejayEn]

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

[RunKitty]

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

[RunKitty]

Is this his arrival in 1920 - coming to Canada to be a solider??
http://www.rootschat.com/links/01u37/
See image 1373

RK

[deejayEn]

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.