Footnote is now Fold3

Footnote has changed its name to Fold3, reflecting its emphasis on military records (when a flag is ceremoniously folded, the third fold represents honoring the sacrifice of veterans).

I just signed up for this site five days ago, when it was still Footnote-- they had a special deal for ancestry.com members at the time.

I had run across this site before, but had assumed that whatever they had was on ancestry.com. Not so, however.

Footnote/Fold3 has many digitized images of records-- especially military records-- from the Revolutionary War to the Vietnam War, many of which are only available on this site:

I found service rolls for my 5th great-grandfather, Samuel Severance, who served in the Revolutionary War and fought at Bunker Hill, as well as an affidavit vouching for his replacement, nephew Jonathan Severance, after Samuel was discharged due to sickness.

I also found my paternal grandfather's naturalization application and his enumeration in the 1930 census (for some reason I couldn't find him in the 1930 census on ancestry.com). These documents helped fill in some of the blanks of his life from the time he immigrated here till the time he married my grandmother: after arriving in the U.S., he lived with his sister and brother-in-law, but by 1930 he was living in a boardinghouse and working in a delicatessen; he would later own his own deli.

If you're interested in family history and have relatives who served in any American wars, then I would say it's worth it to subscribe to Fold3.

And for people who were already Footnote subscribers, Fold3 representatives say not to worry-- their new name doesn't mean they're getting rid of non-military records.