Free Access to World War II Records

In remembrance of the seventieth anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Ancestry.com is offering free access to its World War II military records collection through midnight (Eastern Time) Wednesday, December 7. Ancestry.com offers a research guide for their World War II records, located here. Click here to start searching!

Footnote.com now Fold3

As part of their ongoing effort to shift their focus to military records, Footnote.com underwent a name change to Fold3 as of August 18, 2011. The civilian records previously digitized by Footnote (such as their interactive census collection) will remain on the site, but going forward the site will primarily post collections of military records and images. Any shortcuts or links to the Footnote.com web address will be redirected to the new Fold3 site. And of course our access to the site here at the Champaign County Historical Archives remains unchanged!

See the official blog for further details:

http://blog.fold3.com/