1. April, 2019

2. Fold3® Library Edition Historical Military Records
An Overview for NEW users
April , 2019
Libraries can now offer their patrons this invaluable resource that brings to life the details of America’s military veterans with stories, photos and personal documents.

3. Session Objectives By the end of this session, you will be able to:
Utilize the new advanced search form and browse features
Demonstrate how to locate records by conflicts
Show non-military content and international information
Illustrate use of Memorials & the Honor Wall

4. What is Fold3?
The Fold3 name comes from a traditional U.S. flag folding ceremony in which the third fold is made in honor and remembrance of veterans who served in defense of their country and to maintain peace throughout the world.
Fold3™ Library Edition by Ancestry provides convenient access to US military records, including the stories, photos and documents of the men and women who served. It contains millions of records from world-class archives, many of which are exclusively available on Fold3. Fold3 is invaluable for historians, genealogists, researchers, military enthusiasts, veterans and their families, teachers and battle reenactors. The Fold3 name comes from a traditional flag folding ceremony in which the third fold is made in honor and remembrance of veterans.

5. Who uses Fold3?
Historians, genealogists, veterans and their families, teachers and military enthusiasts can access more than 440 million records from the American Revolutionary War up through recent conflicts.
Libraries can now offer their patrons this invaluable resource that brings to life the details of America’s military veterans with stories, photos and personal documents.
Library patrons may choose to create a personal user account by providing their address and choosing a private password.
The user interface for Fold3 Library Edition is nearly identical to the consumer version.
Cross-searching of all content is the default user experience, but individual collections can be searched as well.
The personal account works with the consumer version, too.

6. Search & Browse

7. Landing page
The Landing page can be used to conduct a keyword search of all records. You may access Memorials, Help, the Training Center or choose to Browse collections by conflict or by all titles.

8. New! – Advanced Search form
Basic Search
New! – Advanced Search form
A new Advanced search form prominently displays filters that may be applied for easier navigation of results set.

9. Browse Categories and Publications
Browse the content in Fold3 by category/conflict or by publication. A search form is available with each collection and allows searching within a single category.

10. New! - Results Page New design for results page.
Filter by Conflict, Place, Branch, Publication Name, Publication Type, Record type, Content provider, Military entity, Rank, Rank at discharge
Sort by Relevance or Date
View records that are OCR’d
Link to tutorials from the new results page.

11. Content

12. 10 Conflicts, International & Non-military content
Images of soldiers in Military helmets are used to depict the conflict and lead users to corresponding record collections .

13. Historical documents and diverse sources
War of 1812 Pension Applications and Service Records
Civil War Widows’ Pensions
Records of the United States Colored Troops
Massachusetts Service Records
And much more
All content is the same between the consumer version and library versions

14. Special & unique collections
African American Archives
American Revolution Archives
Native American Archives
Federal Bureau of Investigation Case File Archives
World War II Archives
Holocaust Archives
Fold3 is home to special and unique collections.

15. Fold3 Library Edition contains millions of records from the following world-class archives:
National Archives & Records Administration (NARA)
Allen County Public Library
Harris County Archives
Cuyahoga County Archives
South Carolina Archives
Pennsylvania Archives
Center for Research Libraries
FamilySearch International
The Fold3 title list is available upon request, with the unique Fold3 content identified.

16. Non-military Records

17. Non-Military content
Click on a non-Military content section to view or select a publication to explore. This category includes American Milestone Documents, Census Records, Newspapers and more.

18. International

19. International Content
International Search.
Browse by Most Popular categories or New & Updated content

20. Memorials

21. Search the U.S. Honor Wall
The U.S. Honor wall includes a carousel with memorial pages for living and deceased soldiers or military events. Choose an image from the collection to explore a soldier’s memorial page.
You may also conduct a search on the U.S. Honor Wall or choose one of 10 different conflicts to explore memorials for enlisted soldiers.

22. Interactive Honor walls
Fold3 was designed to allow people to interact with what they find and add their own information and insights. To add something to Fold3 you will need a free member account so other site visitors will know where the information came from and so that you can update, remove or manage things you’ve added.
Search or View and interactive Honor Wall for Vietnam War and World War II.
About the Vietnam Veterans Memorial
At full size, The Wall image on Fold3 is about 460 feet wide (400,000 pixels wide by 12,500 pixels tall).
We found 58,320 names inscribed on The Wall.
There are about 70 names which are duplicates or misspellings.
8 names are women.
2,056 are listed as "body not recovered."
Average age is 22.8 years old.
WWII
Every-name searchable image of the USS Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor.

23. Build a Memorial
Build a memorial page. Add photos, biographies, stories and original documents to a memorial page

24. Wrap Up Reviewed search page and results page
Demonstrated where and how to isolate records by conflict
Showed collection of non-military content and international information
Reviewed the interactive Memorials & Honor Wall

25. Resources to Learn More
Ancestry Training -
ProQuest Support Center -
ProQuest LibGuides -
ProQuest Training -
Support for Fold3 and all genealogy databases is available.

26. Q&A info goes here.