In addition, Canadians can access for free all content on online newspaper archive Newspapers.com
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May 4, 2020
SPECIAL: Free Genealogy Records on Ancestry
The 75th anniversary of VE Day is this week. From May 4th - 8th, Ancestry Canada will be providing free access to all 10M Canadian military records on the site.
In addition, Canadians can access for free all content on online newspaper archive Newspapers.com
, as well as all records on Fold3
– a site that provides access to military records, stories and photos.
In addition, Canadians can access for free all content on online newspaper archive Newspapers.com
September 21, 2016
WikiTree Announces Source-a-Thon

Genealogy community donates $3,000+ in prizes to support sourced genealogy
September 7, 2016: WikiTree will be kicking off Family History Month with a three-day sourcing marathon, October 1-3, 2016. Individuals and organizations from around the genealogy community are coming together to support this event by donating door prizes for participants. Over $3,000 in genealogy prizes have already been pledged.
Citing sources is required on WikiTree’s collaborative, free family tree, but inexperienced genealogists don't always record them. As Mags Gaulden, a WikiTree leader, states, “In a perfect world all genealogies would be well-sourced, but unfortunately this isn’t the case. We have all run across online genealogies that are just repeats, copy-and-pastes, of what someone else had thrown up based on what aunt Mabel told them back in the 70s.”
Second-hand family information deserves to be preserved and shared, but it needs to be verified. Generous genealogists in the WikiTree community help each other every day by confirming the information in unsourced profiles and adding citations. 200,000 profiles on WikiTree's 12-million person tree are currently identified as needing independent verification. The Source-a-Thon is a major community event to slash that number, draw attention to the importance of sources, and to have fun doing it.
Live chats will be hosted every few hours during the three-day event for participants to cheer each other on. During the chats, random winners will be drawn for valuable prizes including full memberships at MyHeritage, FindMyPast, Ancestry, Fold3, Newspapers.com, and GenealogyBank, DNA tests from Family Tree DNA, conference passes for RootsTech, software, books, gift certificates, t-shirts, research assistance, and much more.
To be eligible for door prizes, participants must register in advance and get a “race number.” See http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Source-a-Thon
Prize donations will be accepted until race day. Contact eowyn@wikitree.com if you would like to support the Source-a-Thon with a donation for participants.
WikiTree: The Free Family Tree has been growing since 2008. Community members privately collaborate with close family members on modern family history and publicly collaborate with other genealogists on deep ancestry. Since all the private and public profiles are connected on the same system this process is helping to grow a single, worldwide family tree that will eventually connect us all and thereby make it free and easy for anyone to discover their roots. See http://www.WikiTree.com.
December 11, 2014
Announcement: FGS Conference & Door Prizes
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| FGS Conference February 11-14, 2015 |
Are you planning to attend? You don't have to wait for the conference to win door prizes. Early door prizes will be awarded to registrants over the next two weeks.
Who is eligible to win? Eligible entries will be those who have purchased a full four-day FGS 2015 conference registration through www.FGSconference.org prior to each drawing deadline (excluding winners from previous weeks).
Prizes to be awarded include: a one-year Ancestry.com World Explorer subscription, a one-year Findmypast World subscription, a one-year Findmypast U.S. subscription, RootsMagic software, a one-year Fold3 subscription, and a one-year Newspapers.com subscription.
Each registrant will be assigned a consecutive number in the order of registration. Winners will be selected using a random number generator and will be notified by email to the address used for the conference registration and announced here on the FGS Voice Blog.
The deadline for entries is midnight PDT December 17, and 24. Prizes will be awarded weekly on December 18, and 25.
Register today for FGS 2015 for an opportunity to win an early door prize.
May 19, 2014
WW2 Collection on Fold3 FREE until May 31, 2014
You can also explore records that provide historical context, such as Navy war diaries, submarine patrol reports, naval press clippings, JAG case files, European Theater Army records, US Air Force photos, and beyond. Also included are the extensive Holocaust Collection and the interactive USS Arizona Memorial.
April 16, 2014
Free Access to Civil War Records on Fold3
Explore Civil War documents featuring everything
from military records to personal accounts and historic writings.
Soldier records include service records, pension index cards, “Widows’
Pension” files, Navy survivors certificates, Army
registers, and much more. Other record types include photographs,
original war maps, court investigations, slave records, and beyond.
Items such as the Lincoln Assassination Papers, Sultana Disaster
documents, letters to the Adjutant General and Commission
Branch, and the 1860 census are also contained in the Civil War
Collection.
Confederate-specific records include Confederate
service records, amnesty papers, casualty reports, and citizens files,
as well as Confederate Navy subject files and Southern Claims Commission
documents.
Join Fold3 in its commemoration of the Civil War.
Discover information on famous participants as well as your own Civil
War ancestors through documents, photos, and images that capture the
experiences and vital information of those involved
in America’s deadliest conflict. Then commemorate your ancestors by
creating or expanding memorial pages for them on Fold3’s
Honor Wall
February 4, 2014
FamilySearch Works to Put the World’s Historical Records Online in One Generation
FamilySearch Works to Put the World’s Historical Records Online in One Generation
See Related Infographic
SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH—FamilySearch International (online at FamilySearch.org) is leading the way in digitizing and providing access to billions of historical genealogical records by collaborating with commercial family history companies and the online community. This collaboration will carve centuries off the time needed to increase access to the world’s historical records, enabling millions more people to quickly discover, share, and preserve family memories for generations.Recent announcements of agreements with commercial family history companies are some of the first installments in fulfilling FamilySearch’s desire to remove the traditional barriers to genealogical research. FamilySearch CEO, Dennis Brimhall, explains that joining forces with other organizations, where possible, brings significantly more financial investment and technological resources to the family history industry than the nonprofit community could provide on its own.
FamilySearch plans to collaborate on digitization projects with commercial family history companies to publish new historical records collections on FamilySearch.org that have never seen the light of the Internet. Working with individual industry leaders such as Ancestry.com
In a keynote address at the RootsTech 2013 conference, Brimhall shared FamilySearch’s vision to empower people globally to share their family memories and save them for future generations. “Imagine if your ancestors had easy access to computers, digital cameras, and family history websites that allowed them to upload, preserve, and share important family memories through photos, stories, and vital names, dates, and places? How amazing would that be?” Brimhall said.
FamilySearch and its predecessors have been preserving and providing access to the world’s family history records for over 100 years. FamilySearch volunteers have indexed just over three billion records in extraction and online indexing projects, but they have only scratched the surface.
“For the top countries with the highest online research demand, using our existing resources and volunteers, it will take up to 300 years to index the 5.3 billion records that we already have,” Brimhall noted. “That means you and me and the next 10 generations of our posterity would not live to personally benefit from them. And there are another 60 billion records that still need to be digitally preserved. We can do significantly better by working together with other organizations and as a community.”
As new historical record collections are published under the latest agreements with FamilySearch’s affiliates, they will be available on FamilySearch.org and for free on Ancestry.com
Infographic: Putting the World’s Historical Records Online in One Generation
November 9, 2013
Fold3 Honor Wall for Military Ancestors
Fold3
now has an Honor Wall where you can pay tribute to a military ancestor. It's a very nice way to honor those who fought for our freedom.
Why not take a moment to visit and create a tribute or add to an existing memorial.
Why not take a moment to visit and create a tribute or add to an existing memorial.
August 20, 2013
Who Do You Think You Are? Tonight's Epsiode War of 1812
Who Do You Think You Are? on TCL in partnership with Ancestry.com
tonight will focus on Chris O’Donnell’s strong
family legacy through an epidemic and war. He travels to St.
Louis and Washington D.C to see how deep his roots go and learn of the
events that strongly tie his family to American history.
If you have a War of 1812 ancestor you may wish to consult Fold3. The War of 1812 pension and bounty land warrant application files are still being digitized and more than 700,000 records are already online at Fold3.com
These rich documents contain details of your ancestors such as
affidavits, statements from witnesses, widow’s maiden name, acres
granted, marriage date, service data and more.
Tune in tonight at 9/8C on TLC to see what Chris O’Donnell discovers from the War of 1812 pension files.
My ancestors fought in the War of 1812 but on the British side. Stephen Peer the brother of my 4th great-grandfather was killed at the Battle of Chippewa. What about your War of 1812 ancestors - do you know their stories?
If you have a War of 1812 ancestor you may wish to consult Fold3. The War of 1812 pension and bounty land warrant application files are still being digitized and more than 700,000 records are already online at Fold3.com
Tune in tonight at 9/8C on TLC to see what Chris O’Donnell discovers from the War of 1812 pension files.
My ancestors fought in the War of 1812 but on the British side. Stephen Peer the brother of my 4th great-grandfather was killed at the Battle of Chippewa. What about your War of 1812 ancestors - do you know their stories?
May 28, 2013
Free Access on Fold3
The 150th Anniversary of the United States Colored Troops
On May 22, 1863, the
War Department issued General Orders 143, establishing a Bureau of
Colored Troops in the Adjutant General’s Office to recruit and organize
African American soldiers to fight for the Union
Army. With this order, all African American regiments were designated
as United States Colored Troops (USCT).
Today marks the 150th
anniversary of the USCT, and the National Archives is pleased to
announce the completion of the USCT Service Records Digitization
Project. In partnership with Fold3, the project provides
online access to all service records—more than 3.8 million images—of
Union volunteers in USCT units.
From May 22 to 31, the digital collection will be free on
Fold3
. (All National Archives collections on Fold3.com can always be viewed for free at any National Archives facility nationwide.)
Compiled military
service records (CMSRs) are part of Record Group 94, the Records of the
Adjutant General’s Office. They contain card abstracts of entries
related to an individual soldier such as muster rolls
and regimental returns.
Many CMSRs also contain
original documents called “personal papers,” which are especially
valuable to researchers looking for documentation on former slaves.
These papers include enlistment papers, correspondence,
orders, prisoner-of-war memorandums, casualty reports, or final
statements. Unique to the records of the USCT are deeds of manumission,
proofs of slave ownership, and bills of sale.
Starting in October
1863, a slave owner could offer his slave for enlistment in military
service and be entitled to compensation up to $300 upon filing a valid
deed of manumission and release, and making satisfactory
proof of title. These forms offer researchers rare information and
document the life of a slave person in the absence of other vital
records.
Edmund Delaney was a
slave who served in Company E of the 117th USCT Infantry. He was 25
years old when he enlisted in August 1864. Delaney’s owner, Harvey C.
Graves of Georgetown, Kentucky, filed a compensation
claim for his military service in December 1866. Graves stated that he
“purchased [Delaney] at private sale when he was quite a small boy and
owned him at the time of his enlistment.”
The claim form was
accompanied by a proof of ownership form to which Graves attached a rare
“likeness,” or photo of Delaney, and several of Delaney’s letters
written to him while serving in Brownsville, Texas.
The letters offer us a rare glimpse into his lonely soldier’s life,
especially when he laments that no friends have written back to him:
“somehow most of them seem to be very much afraid of their pens and ink.”
“somehow most of them seem to be very much afraid of their pens and ink.”
The USCT service records also reveal the social issues faced by
free blacks, such as the story of Fortune Wright, a soldier of
the 96th USCT Infantry. Wright was a free black man before the Civil War
began, and he enlisted in Louisiana in July 1862.
On October 23, 1865, a white doctor and another man
thought they observed Wright beating a black woman on a street in
Jefferson, Louisiana. When they attempted to reprimand Wright, a fight
ensued. Wright—fearing for his life—stabbed the
doctor, who was beating him with a cane. The doctor died.
Wright pleaded not guilty at his court-martial
trial but was found guilty of murder and sentenced “to be hanged by the
neck until dead” on January 5, 1866.
The accused offered his explanation while in prison
in New Orleans. He stated that he was approached by an “immoral colored
woman” who put her hand on his shoulder and was “acting her willingness
to prostitute her person.” The woman told
him to give her a dime. Wright said that he didn’t have a dime, and
that if he did have a dime, he would give it to his wife. Wright stated
that he was angry with the woman for her insulting conduct and language.
If she repeated her language, Wright told her,
he would slap her. She did repeat herself, and Wright slapped her.
The two white men appeared on the scene at this
point without knowing how the argument began. As Wright walked away, the
doctor followed and struck Wright on the head with a walking cane.
Wright reeled around and grabbed the stick while
the doctor cursed at him to let go. The doctor grabbed Wright by the
collar of his coat and then punched him in the face. The second white
man yelled to “kill the damned black yankee [since] there is no law for
him.” Wright warned that if they both jumped
him, he would cut one with his knife. When he was attacked, Wright
stabbed the doctor with his knife.
Wright’s captain and his attorney sent pleas for a
postponement of the sentence to Maj. Gen. Edward Canby of the Department
of the Gulf. They were hoping for time to appeal to President Andrew
Johnson for a pardon based on self-defense.
Several postponements were granted. The series of
the documents leading to President Johnson’s final decision reads like
the ultimate page-turner. On February 24, 1866, General Canby received a
telegram from the War Department in Washington,
DC, stating that President Johnson has ordered that “the [death]
sentence be duly carried into execution.” A copy of this message on
American Telegraph Company letterhead survives in the service record.
Wright was not notified of his fate until the
evening before his hanging. A week earlier, Provost Marshal A.M. Jackson
was warned in a letter from Eastern District headquarters in Louisiana
that “Precaution must be taken that the office
of hangman be confided to a capable person so that no disagreeable
results may ensue, and that the body be not disturbed until the hangman
has pronounced life to be entirely extinct.”
Jackson’s report of the execution dated the next day describes quite a different scene.
The knot on the rope was not soaped properly and
the knot slipped as Wright fell from the platform. Though he was
suspended, his neck was not broken and he could still breathe. Wright
was taken down and put on the platform a second time.
It took fifteen more minutes of strangulation before death took Fortune
Wright. Jackson claimed that though the circumstance was “unpleasant,”
Wright did not suffer “as he remained insensible from the time of the
first fall.”
April 5, 2013
Free Confederate Civil War Records on Fold3
These include Confederate Compiled Service Records, both the Union and Confederate citizens files, and Confederate Casualty Reports.
March 17, 2013
Korean War Casualties now on Fold3
Records of U.S. Army officers and soldiers killed or wounded in the Korean War are now available on Fold3
. Korean War Casualties is available free to any visitors to the site.
One quarter of the nearly 110,000 records in Korean War Casualties
connects to information about Army personnel who died during the war,
1950-1953, including those who died while a prisoner of war or missing
in action. The remaining three quarters are for nonfatal Army
casualties.
The Korean War Casualties database is from the
Records of the Adjutant General's Office, 1905-1981 (Record Group 407),
at the National Archives (NARA). It was compiled between 1950 and 1970,
and covers the period from the earliest casualty (February 13, 1950) to
the latest date in the date of disposition field, December 31, 1953.
The information on each casualty may include:
name, service prefix and number, grade, Army branch, place and date of
casualty, state and county of residence, type of casualty,
detail/previous casualty type, casualty group, place and date of
disposition, year of birth (for deceased casualties only), military
occupational specialty, organization troop program sequence number,
element sequence, unit number, race, component, and disposition of
evacuations.
Launch your search within the records from the Korean War Casualty title page or use the browse option and highlight the Korean War category. Records are ordered alphabetically. (NARA also provides a list of fatal casualties by state on its website.)
When you find a soldier in the Korean War
Casualties records on Fold3
, you’ll link directly to a memorial page for that
soldier where we invite you to add stories, photos, documents, and other
information relating to that individual. Examples of two pages to which
newspaper articles were added include twice-wounded Purple Heart
recipient Dwight L. Huston, of Mt. Vernon, IL; and Pittsfield, MA, native Arthur A. Boland.
When added to the memorial pages, your stories
and photos help sustain the memories of United States heroes in the
Korean War and allow others to connect with and honor them.
July 6, 2012
The National Genealogical Society Announces Partnership With Fold3
The National Genealogical Society Announces Partnership With Fold3
arlington, va, 5 JUNE 2012:
The National Genealogical Society is proud to announce a partnership
with Fold3, the premier military history website. NGS has worked with
Fold3
to give its society membership an extremely attractive member
benefit. Fold3 is offering NGS members its lowest price when they
purchase a Fold3 Annual Membership of $39.95, which is a 50% savings off
the regular price. In additional to the NGS member savings, Fold3 will
donate 30% of the sale back to NGS to further its educational work.
NGS and Fold3 are announcing this partnership in celebration of the 4th
of July this week. Fold3 features over 94 million historical records
from US institutions including the National Archives. Military records,
naturalization records, and city directories are just a few of the
different collections found on Fold3. Joining Fold3 and locating an
ancestor’s military or naturalization record is a fitting way to honor
their legacy.
To
take advantage of this member benefit, visit the Special Offer for a
Fold3
Annual Membership page in the Members Only section of the NGS
website at http://www.ngsgenealogy.org/ cs/fold3. Please be sure to log in under the User Login area in the right-hand column of the screen.
The
NGS-Fold3 partnership allows Fold3, one of the best online resources
for historical documents, to support and contribute to NGS’s mission,
which includes helping to serve and grow the genealogical community
through education.
Founded
in 1903, the National Genealogical Society is dedicated to genealogy
education, high research standards, and the preservation of genealogical
records. The Arlington, Virginia-based nonprofit is the premier
national society for everyone, from the beginner to the most advanced
family historian, seeking excellence in publications, educational
offerings, research guidance, and opportunities to interact with other
genealogists.
June 18, 2012
War of 1812 Free Acess to USA & Canadian Records
The War of 1812. This is the War that both sides (Canada and America) claim they won [FN] . It started on June 18, 1812 when America declared war on Great Britain.
If your ancestor fought in this War, you can take advantage of the free War of 1812 databases online
Fold3 observes the War of 1812 bicentennial with rich and revealing historical documents within the War of 1812 Collection. They include the War of 1812 Prize Cases from New York's Southern District Court, Letters Received by the Adjutant General, and War of 1812 Service Records for Lake Erie and Mississippi, and the War of 1812 Pension Files.
War of 1812 Canadian Records - Free Access via LAC (Library & Archives Canada)
LAC has digitised and published its War of 1812 holdings online. These include the following records:
- War of 1812: Board of Claims for Losses, 1813-1848, RG 19 E5A
- War of 1812: Lower Canada Nominal Rolls and Paylists, RG 9 1A7
- War of 1812: Miscellaneous Records
- War of 1812: Upper Canada Returns, Nominal Rolls and Paylists, RG 9 1B7
These records are not indexed. The best method for finding an ancestor is to consult the HELP file for each set of records. There you will find an itemized list of what is on each microfilm reel. This will help you narrow your search but be prepared to spend some time scrolling through the pages.
I spent some time on the Claims for Losses microfilm on Sunday and can tell you that there are some names indexed starting at image 272 on microfilm t-1123.
You can also consult Olive Tree Genealogy War of 1812 section as there are some smaller databases online. These include several Canadian Muster Rolls, Lists of widow's receiving Canadian pensions, property losses, prisoners of war and more.
[FN] How can both sides claim they won the War of 1812? Easy. In a nutshell: USA won the Battle of New Orleans, the last battle of the war. America claims a win based on this battle. But it was fought after peace was declared. Thus Britain (and Canada) claim the win overall. As well, America never realized its objective to "annex" Canada, therefore that would in military and political circles be considered a loss.
Still interested? Read what an American historian had to say at Canada Won the War of 1812
Spoiler alert: The article begins with "In a relatively rare admission for an American scholar, a leading U.S. historian who authored a provocative new tome about North American military conflicts states bluntly that Canada won the War of 1812."
Of course I'm not objective. Being a Canadian I believe that we won the war. But whoever won, we all lost many soldiers and civilians in some horrific battles. It is easy to perceive a War as "romantic" when in reality war is a horrible event. But nonetheless it happened and as genealogists we are naturally curious to know if one of our ancestors was involved and to what extent. Hopefully some of the databases that are being offered online will assist us in that quest.
You can also consult Olive Tree Genealogy War of 1812 section as there are some smaller databases online. These include several Canadian Muster Rolls, Lists of widow's receiving Canadian pensions, property losses, prisoners of war and more.
[FN] How can both sides claim they won the War of 1812? Easy. In a nutshell: USA won the Battle of New Orleans, the last battle of the war. America claims a win based on this battle. But it was fought after peace was declared. Thus Britain (and Canada) claim the win overall. As well, America never realized its objective to "annex" Canada, therefore that would in military and political circles be considered a loss.
Still interested? Read what an American historian had to say at Canada Won the War of 1812
Spoiler alert: The article begins with "In a relatively rare admission for an American scholar, a leading U.S. historian who authored a provocative new tome about North American military conflicts states bluntly that Canada won the War of 1812."
Of course I'm not objective. Being a Canadian I believe that we won the war. But whoever won, we all lost many soldiers and civilians in some horrific battles. It is easy to perceive a War as "romantic" when in reality war is a horrible event. But nonetheless it happened and as genealogists we are naturally curious to know if one of our ancestors was involved and to what extent. Hopefully some of the databases that are being offered online will assist us in that quest.
June 1, 2012
Free War of 1812 Records on Fold3
Fold3
will be opening up all of their War of 1812
records to the public for free during June. This is in commemoration of
the 200th anniversary of the commencement of the war.
The collection consists of more than 400,000 images including 233,000 images from the War of 1812 Pension Files never before available online. The following databases provided for free included:
The collection consists of more than 400,000 images including 233,000 images from the War of 1812 Pension Files never before available online. The following databases provided for free included:
- War of 1812 Pension Files
- War of 1812 Prize Cases, Southern District Court, NY
- Letters Received by The Adjutant General, 1805-1821
- War of 1812 Service Records
March 15, 2012
WWII European Theater Army Records, 1941-1946 on Fold3
New on Fold3
: WWII European Theater Army Records,
a collection of administrative documents compiled by the U.S. Army's
Historical Division, 1941 through 1946. These records, originally marked
secret and confidential, are now available on Fold3
Created within the European Theater of Operations (ETO) during World War II, these documents are revealing, and often include personal accounts, as in this report of evacuating Allied prisoners of war. Names of soldiers and support personnel are on many of the records, but nowhere more prolific than in the phonebooks for U.S. Forces in Paris.
Explore the ETO Records on Fold3
to discover more about U.S. operations in World War II and how the Army
effectively maintained soldiers' welfare and waged war behind the
battle lines.
Created within the European Theater of Operations (ETO) during World War II, these documents are revealing, and often include personal accounts, as in this report of evacuating Allied prisoners of war. Names of soldiers and support personnel are on many of the records, but nowhere more prolific than in the phonebooks for U.S. Forces in Paris.
Explore the ETO Records on Fold3
February 24, 2012
Civil War Collection Expanded on Fold3
The following announcement was sent to Olive Tree Genealogy by Fold3
. If you're looking for a Union Soldier this may be what you've been waiting for!
Index to Compiled Service Records of Union Soldiers
Fold3
is excited to announce the expansion of the Civil War Collection by adding the Index to Compiled Service Records of Union Soldiers. The first four states available in this collection are Ohio, New York, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania.
Each index card
gives the name of a soldier, his rank, and the unit in which he served.
Anyone looking for a Union soldier in the Civil War will find these
cards useful in identifying the state and regiment in which a man served
and how his name appears in the military records. You can then locate
his records to learn about his service in the war and the battles in
which his regiment fought.
Beginning in 1890, Capt. Fred C. Ainsworth, head of the Record and
Pension Division of the War Department, spearheaded an effort to create
card abstracts of information from muster rolls, regimental returns,
descriptive books, and other military records to build a compiled
service record for each Union soldier. The index cards reference the
resulting Civil War Service Records, many of which are also available on Fold3. As an example, the index card for Timothy Canty tells us that he served as a private and an artificer in Company A of the 1st New York Engineers. We can then find Canty's service record as the 1st New York Engineers is one of regiments digitized on Fold3
.
This new index, viewed as card images on Fold3, may be familiar to some.
The National Park Service transcribed these cards, referred to as
"General Index Cards," and placed the data online in its Civil War
Soldiers and Sailors System. When searching for a soldier there, you are
provided with a transcription, while Fold3's images allow users to view
the original card as well as determine the accuracy of the
transcription. Once you find the soldier you're looking for, you can
connect his index card to his service record on Fold3
, or contact NARA
for copies of his documents.
December 7, 2011
Pearl Harbour - Leave a Tribute on the USS Arizona War Memorial
Attack on Pearl Harbor
December 7, 1941,
"a date which will live in infamy," is seared into the American psyche
as the day the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and took the United States
into World War II.
That immortal phrase was delivered the
following day by President Roosevelt in an address to Congress and the
nation. He predicted that "always will our whole nation remember the
character of the onslaught against us."
This year, on the 70th anniversary of the
Pearl Harbor attacks, Americans continue to remember the shocking event
and the loved ones who lost their lives that day. It was a tragedy that
affected millions of lives. Many people alive today have a personal
connection to December 7, 1941, and there are many more who lost
fathers, uncles, grandfathers, and friends, or heard stories about that
day and its aftermath from those who lived through it.
September 3, 2011
New U.S. Military Records on Fold3
Fold3.com
is excited to announce
that they have begun adding the following new titles to the site,
covering 5 wars and 130 years of U.S. military history:
War of 1812 Pension FilesFree
Records in the War of 1812 Pension Files reveal details of each soldier’s service and family.
Mexican War Service Records
From 1846 to 1848, the war with Mexico determined the southwest border of the U.S. as we know it today. The Mexican War Service Records launch Fold3's commitment to bringing records of this strategic war to our members.
Confederate Casualty Reports
From skirmishes to major battles, documents within the Confederate Casualty Reports
describe a unit's role in the conflict and detail casualties, from
killed to missing to "slightly" wounded.
World War I Officer Experience Reports
The World War I Officer Experience Reports reveal intriguing accounts by engineers in the American Expeditionary
Forces (AEF).
WWII "Old Man's Draft" Registration Cards
In 1942, men between the
ages of 45 and 64 were required to register for the draft in order to
create an inventory of those who could provide essential skills to the
home front during World War II. The "Old Man's Draft" Cards are the
result, complete with addresses, dates, and physical descriptions of
each registrant.
Watch for more to come as these titles continue to grow and others are added to Fold3.com
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