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General => Armed Forces => Topic started by: Clarkey500 on Monday 06 August 18 11:27 BST (UK)
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Just to let everyone know, Fold3 are having a free week
end starting today (Monday) and expiring on Thursday at 23:59 for Commonwealth military records.
At the same time, as has been mentioned on the WW1 board, Ancestry's WW1 records are free to view. However, as the Fold3 records contain information from a variety of periods of history and the fact that Fold3 is a different website, I feel this deserves a seperate thread.
You will need to sign in to Fold3 to access their records, but this can be done by signing in with your Ancestry details and then creating a free account with this information if you haven't already done so.
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Hi there - I was wondering if anyone knows an easy way of finding old Fold3 hints on Ancestry.com that have been ignored? Or whether it is just a point of going through each person and checking on each ignored hint?
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Just to let others know, I hadn't seen Clarkey's post but I'd logged into Anc & there was a hint with info. for free access to Fold3 & as Clarkey says you can log in via your Anc account but...
This is a bypass of having to use your debit/credit card for a 'free trial' i.e. signing you straight in & no need for any card details!!!
Annie
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What I don't understand is why when you go to Fold3 and you ask to download a record to Ancestry it says you have to have a tree on Fold3 ??? Surely this is just trying to het you to duplicate your Ancestry tree on Fold3
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Just to let others know, I hadn't seen Clarkey's post but I'd logged into Anc & there was a hint with info. for free access to Fold3 & as Clarkey says you can log in via your Anc account but...
This is a bypass of having to use your debit/credit card for a 'free trial' i.e. signing you straight in & no need for any card details!!!
Annie
I have a current Ancestry sub and was logged in to Ancestry, I tried to access a WW1 British record was taken to Fold3 site and immediately to a subscription page for a 7 day "free" trial and invited to enter my credit card details. I can't see how to bypass this and get to a record which is supposedly free to view today.
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Google fold3 login
Click account details and you can choose log in with Ancestry
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Thanks very much - got in all right now. It seems I already have a fold3 account. Completely different user name to Ancestry. Part of my email address with a string of numbers on the end. Not a user name I would have chosen. Must be automatically generated