Fold3 is one of the major subscription genealogy databases, chock full of searchable and browsable information. The website specializes in Military records, databases, and collections.
And like the website’s owner, Ancestry, it provides access to many databases that you can access and research for Free!
I would check out the list below and avail myself of what is free. There are 214 collections that you can access!
- Admiralty Records, Key West
- Allied Military Government Reports
- American Battle Monuments Commission
- American Colonization Society
- American Milestone Documents
- Amistad – Federal court records
- Amistad – Supreme Court records
- Anti-Slavery Manuscripts Collection
- Ardelia Hall Collection: Marburg Administrative Records
- Ardelia Hall Collection: Marburg Photos
- Ardelia Hall Collection: Marburg Property Cards
- Ardelia Hall Collection: Miscellaneous Property Reports
- Ardelia Hall Collection: Munich Administrative Records
- Ardelia Hall Collection: Munich Photos
- Ardelia Hall Collection: Munich Property Cards
- Ardelia Hall Collection: Offenbach Administrative Records
- Ardelia Hall Collection: Offenbach Photographs
- Ardelia Hall Collection: OMGUS Records
- Ardelia Hall Collection: Selected Records
- Ardelia Hall Collection: Wiesbaden Administrative Records
- Ardelia Hall Collection: Wiesbaden Photographs
- Ardelia Hall Collection: Wiesbaden Property Cards
- Boston Public Library Collections
- Bounty-Land Warrant Applications Index
- Brady Civil War Photos
- Canada, World War II Records and Service Files of War Dead, 1939-1947
- Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1915-1919
- Card File of Japanese Works Requiring Protection
- Casualties from Persian Gulf War
- Civil War Horse Soldier Artifacts Collection
- Civil War Maps
- Civil War Milestone Documents
- Civil War Photos
- Combat Squadrons of the Air Force WWII
- Constitutional Convention Records
- Continental Congress – Misc
- Continental Congress – Papers
- Custer’s Court Martial
- Dachau Entry Registers
- Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Unaccounted-for Remains
- Deseret Iron Company Account Book (UT)
- Domestic Letters of the Department of State
- ERR Card File and Photos
- Faith of a Scientist
- Flossenburg Entry Registers
- Foreign Burial of American War Dead
- Foreign Letters of the Continental Congress
- George Washington Correspondence
- Germany, Military Killed in Action, 1939-1948
- Heitman’s Register and Dictionary of the US Army
- Hutchings Museum
- Iowa County Historical Society
- Korean War Casualties
- Lincoln Assassination Papers
- Mauthausen Death Books
- Medal of Honor Recipients, 1863-2013
- Mexican American War Milestone Documents
- Military History of Ohio 1669-1865
- Military Yearbooks
- National WWI Museum Portrait Photographs
- Naval History of the American Revolution
- Navy and Marine Corps Officers, 1775-1900
- New York State Adjutant General Reports, 1846-1995
- New York State Military Museum Photos (Civil War – Vietnam War)
- News – Gazette Virginian (Halifax Co VA)
- News – Halifax Gazette (Halifax Co VA)
- OMGUS – Cultural Affairs Branch
- OMGUS – External Assets Investigation
- OMGUS – Foreign Exchange Depository Group
- OMGUS – Investigations of the Financial Intelligence Group
- OMGUS – Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives
- OMGUS Finance Division – Investigations and Interrogations
- Operation Enduring dom (OEF) Casualties
- Operation Iraqi dom (OIF) Casualties
- Operation New Dawn (OND) Casualties
- OSS Washington Secret Intelligence Records
- Pennsylvania Archives
- Pentagon Papers
- Phan Rang Air Base
- Photos – Coolidge
- Photos – Eisenhower
- Photos – Fine Arts Commission, Series G
- Photos – Franklin D Roosevelt
- Photos – Native Americans (Rinehart)
- Photos – Truman
- Photos – Vietnam Marine Corps (B/W)
- Photos – Vietnam War Army
- Photos – Vietnam War Marine Corps
- Photos – Vietnam War Navy
- Photos – WW II Japanese
- Project Blue Book – UFO Investigations
- Queen’s Own Riffle Casualties 1944-1945
- Ratified Amendments to the US Constitution
- Reflections of a Scientist
- Revolutionary War Milestone Documents
- Roberts Commission – Protection of Historical Monuments
- Safehaven Reports of the War Crimes Branch
- Second Army (Tennessee) Maneuvers WWII
- Social Security Death Index
- State Dept Records – France
- State Dept Records – Russia
- Sultana Disaster, April 1865
- The Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts (AHAC)
- The Bowie List – Confederate Burial Sites Maryland
- Town Records – Goffstown NH
- Town Records – Hancock NH
- Town Records – South Boston, VA
- U.S. WWI Burial Cards
- Unit History – 102nd Infantry Regiment
- Unit History – 10th Armored Division
- Unit History – 110th Battalion Canada
- Unit History – 111th Infantry Regiment
- Unit History – 114th Infantry Regiment
- Unit History – 115th Infantry Regiment
- Unit History – 120th Infantry Regiment
- Unit History – 137th Infantry Regiment
- Unit History – 1457th Engineer Battalion
- Unit History – 157th Infantry Regiment
- Unit History – 162nd Infantry Regiment
- Unit History – 166th Infantry Regiment
- Unit History – 192nd Tank Battalion
- Unit History – 1st Armored Division
- Unit History – 1st Infantry Division
- Unit History – 1st Marine Division
- Unit History – 21st Army Group (United Kingdom)
- Unit History – 21st Field Hospital
- Unit History – 26th Infantry Division
- Unit History – 272nd Infantry Regiment
- Unit History – 304th Signal Battalion
- Unit History – 307th Bomb Group
- Unit History – 313th Infantry Regiment
- Unit History – 320th Infantry Regiment
- Unit History – 328th Field Artillery Battalion
- Unit History – 338th Infantry Division (German)
- Unit History – 34th Infantry Division
- Unit History – 351st Infantry Regiment
- Unit History – 358th Fighter Group
- Unit History – 380th Bomb Group
- Unit History – 38th Infantry Division
- Unit History – 3rd Armored Division
- Unit History – 3rd Infantry Division
- Unit History – 413th Infantry Regiment
- Unit History – 41st Infantry Division
- Unit History – 43rd Infantry Division
- Unit History – 442nd Infantry Regiment
- Unit History – 447th Bomb Group
- Unit History – 456th Bomb Group
- Unit History – 457th Bomb Group
- Unit History – 458th Bomb Group
- Unit History – 459th Bomb Group
- Unit History – 45th Infantry Division
- Unit History – 497th Bomb Group
- Unit History – 498th Bomb Group
- Unit History – 499th Bomb Group
- Unit History – 4th Infantry Division
- Unit History – 500th Bomb Group
- Unit History – 511th Engineer Company
- Unit History – 5th Army
- Unit History – 5th Infantry Division
- Unit History – 63rd Infantry Division
- Unit History – 655th Engineer Topographic Battalion
- Unit History – 6th Marine Division
- Unit History – 703rd Medical Sanitary Division
- Unit History – 70th Infantry Division
- Unit History – 75th Infantry Division
- Unit History – 7th Armored Division
- Unit History – 811th Tank Destroyer Battalion
- Unit History – 85th Infantry Division
- Unit History – 87th Infantry Division
- Unit History – 88th Infantry Division
- Unit History – 90th Infantry Division
- Unit History – 93rd Armored Field Artillery Battalion
- Unit History – 94th Bomb Group
- Unit History – 95th Bomb Group
- Unit History – 96th Bomb Group
- Unit History – 97th Infantry Division
- Unit History – 9th Bomb Group
- Unit History – 9th Infantry Division
- Unit History – Illinois Volunteer Regiments
- Unit History – Massachusetts Volunteer Regiments
- Unit History – New Hampshire Volunteer Regiments
- Unit History – New York Volunteer Regiments
- Unit History – Riverine Assault Force
- Unit History – USS Borie Records
- Unit History – USS LST-247 Records
- Unit History – USS Wakefield Records
- Unit History – Vermont Volunteer Regiments
- Unit History – Wisconsin Infantry Regiments
- Unit History – XX Corps (United States)
- USACA – German External Assets Branch
- USACA – Monuments and Fine Arts Branch
- USACA – Property Control Branch
- USACA – Reparations and Restitutions Branch
- User Contributed
- USS Arizona Memorial
- Utah Territorial Case Files
- Veterans Affairs BIRLS Death File
- Vietnam Service Awards
- Vietnam Veterans Memorial
- Vietnam War Milestone Documents
- War of 1812 Milestone Documents
- War of 1812 Pension Application Files Index, 1812-1815
- War of 1812 Pension Files
- Women’s Army Corps (WAC)
- World War I Milestone Documents
- World War II Milestone Documents
- WWI Panoramic Unit Photos
- WWII 27th Army Division Photos
- WWII Captured German Records
- WWII German Documents Among War Crimes Records
- WWII Nuernberg Interrogation Records
- WWII OSS Art Looting Investigation Reports
- WWII Servicemen Photos, Mullally Collection
- WWII US Air Force Photos
Good Luck and Happy Hunting!
