The other day I was asked if there was a way to save documents or pages being retrieved from Fold3 to Ancestry.com. My first response was you can do that now? You will need an Ancestry.com account for this to work. Ancestry.com does offer a free limited account or you can pay for various access to an assortment of records. So I logged into up Fold3 to find a relative and I clicked on open full record or view large, and found the green
"Save To Ancestry Button"
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"Save To Ancestry Button"
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After finding the page or document on Fold3 click on the "Save to Ancestry" button and follow those instructions. After clicking on the button log into the Ancerstry.com account. From that point locate the drop-down menus listing the names on the family tree. Locate the specific name that the document or page will be attached to. Type the name of the person that is associated with the record being attached, make sure the correct name appears on the list and then press save.
After completing this, you can then either close the window and continue searching on Fold3, or you can view the profile of the person that you attached the record to. Choosing the second option you will go to the profile page of that person you linked to and be able to view the record. To find it the attachment, locate the "Source Information" which will be on the right side of the page indicating it as a link citation to Fold3. This does not add the document to the file, only the source link to Fold3. When you click on that link, you will go back to Fold3 where that image appears.
If you want to see the actual document image, then download it from Fold3 and upload it to Ancestry.com through the "Add Media". To Add Media on Ancestry.com you first download the image from Fold3 to your desk top. Go back to Ancestry.com and then click Add media and then click on the Upload Media button. Click on Select Files and in a few seconds it will appear in a section where you can title it, change the category type to document, choose to use it has a primary photo or not, add a transcription of the document, add a date, and a location. Then save it to the specific person you are attaching it to.
Fold3 does have helpful vidoe tutorials located at the Fold3 Training Center and theIf you want to see the actual document image, then download it from Fold3 and upload it to Ancestry.com through the "Add Media". To Add Media on Ancestry.com you first download the image from Fold3 to your desk top. Go back to Ancestry.com and then click Add media and then click on the Upload Media button. Click on Select Files and in a few seconds it will appear in a section where you can title it, change the category type to document, choose to use it has a primary photo or not, add a transcription of the document, add a date, and a location. Then save it to the specific person you are attaching it to.
video to watch on how to do this specific procedure is at "Save to Ancestry" tutorial.
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