Combine World War II Research on Fold 3 To Your Ancestry Family Tree

Ancestry family trees offer researchers a wealth of resources to help them search using dates, names, places within records, which will help build individual family stories. Genealogical research is more than a collection of records, like names, places, dates, and more. Ancestry family trees helped beyond gathering dry facts to write a story using historical context.

Historical context places relevant details and events around a person based on the place and time he or she lived. We can implement this in World War II research when we learn about the training of the soldier, marine, or sailor. We have access to unit-level histories of battle fights. All of these pieces have been added to our soldier’s story. Fold3.com is a good place for finding those pieces that add context.

Fold3.com is a military records site that provides easy access to documents and images of the revolutionary war in Vietnam. There are extra commonwealth records, newspapers, some non-military records, and more. With more focus on military records, Fold3.com goes deeper into contextual records. Some of the information you can find may be on collections that may not particularly name the soldier. World War II on Fold3.com includes Record Collection:

·         Naval War Diaries

·         Unit Level Diaries

·         Donated records of facts from military associations

·         USMC Mission Reports

·         Descriptions were written after the war that has records of major battles and units

Important Research Note

Fold3.com does not have the official Military Personnel files of a soldier. But, you can get these records from the National Personnel Records Center located in St. Louis, Missouri. You can find the best information on your soldier’s service. For this, researchers must go beyond the search by name and within record collections.

How we do this

Searching from a record set means you can browse the Fold3 collections to a specific publication. Use the search box that appears at the top of the form to search for the soldier’s name, unit, battle, and other relevant information. For example, search Lt. Robert E. Bishop in Fold3 collections, and you will get all the detailed information. Bishop was a Marine Corps aviator and member of VMSB-341 and MAG-21.

Note: The marines that were used in World War II were under the authority of the US. Navy. That’s why many records of the Navy and aviation mission reports will be contained within World War II Naval War Diaries.

Documenting Facts in Ancestry Family Tree from Fold3 Records

When you search records by the soldier’s name, Fold3 will enable you to attach records to Ancestry Tree. Be very careful as you are only providing one page of what could be a lengthier packet of documents. Attaching one page can be the reason for the context to be lost. Customers who browse on Ancestry Trees will not understand what record means.

Research Tip

You can place a description of the entire document in the previous description area on your Ancestry Tree and note the number of pages so researchers can refer to the full report.

Focusing on the Documents in Fold3

First, we need to link the three World War II diaries as said above to the Ancestry tree for Robert E. Bishop. In the Ancestry Tree, we have one small piece of the puzzle documented. We can proceed with our research further after reading the reports and write the analysis of what Bishop experienced as part of MAG-21 or VMSB-341. When they write the sources from the reports and upload a document to your Ancestry Tree. You are giving greater context for other researchers who search your Ancestry Tree.

Add Facts and write the Context

Many people worldwide who have just started their Ancestry research and have little to zero experience in military writing or research. You can write up an analysis of records that you find on Fold3.com and attach those notes or documents to your Ancestry tree with source references.

It can guide people who do not know how to start or what to do. Your write-up will help them better understand some parts of the research process. And of course, you can add these related pieces to your Ancestry tree as you are slowly building the story that will help bring that individual and family to life.

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