Ancestry "Sherlock" mail shot

[rosie99]

As to the fold3 records, I do have a worldwide subs but couldn't access the fold3 ones.

I don't understand what "fold3" is. All the military records (including service records, medals, pension details) that I have come straight from ancestry.co.uk, via normal searching.

Can someone explain?

 BugBear

I think this goes to Fold3 - other marine records I tried certainly have

http://www.rootschat.com/links/01j9d/

It's a link to the National Archive site. 

 BugBear

I have just added this to my other post
It now appears to go back to TNA web site.  I know that at one point recently I was trying to look at this record and it was telling me I needed a sub to Fold 3.  I have just checked the other Royal Marine record that I was trying to look at and that is also now going back to TNA.

[Ray T]

I think I had one of the fold3 referrals from Ancestry a few weeks ago but found that the info was available on FindMyPast.

[bugbear]

This goes to fold3 which then asks for membership. My Ancestry worldwide subs login details do not access the site.

Ah - it's one of Ancestry's new "external" indexes, so not a "restricted ancestry data set".

(they also do indexes to free external sites e.g. findagrave). The restriction/charge in this case is by fold3, not Ancestry.

Thank you.

 BugBear

[Millmoor]

I think fold 3 is an American site which specialises in military records. Ancestry purchased it and by having a basic index on their main site and a web link to it, it seems to me that they are basically trying to entice you into forking out another sub.

William

[rosie99]

I think I had one of the fold3 referrals from Ancestry a few weeks ago but found that the info was available on FindMyPast.

I also found that when I got those fold3 referrals they were the same as those on FindMyPast.  In the case of those two I already had a copy of them that I had got from Kew a few years ago on a huge sheet of paper copied straight from the book. 

[josey]

I also found that when I got those fold3 referrals they were the same as those on FindMyPast.  In the case of those two I already had a copy of them that I had got from Kew a few years ago on a huge sheet of paper copied straight from the book. 

The same with me fortunately; I agree with William that it is another route for ancestry to obtain additional subs. The records used to be available & are now  not - we DIDN'T get an email shot about that, as I remember  .