Before I start, I would like to admit that searching in the eHub site was a real adventure for me because of the great amount of diverse information that it offers. While surfing, I came across to the website Footnote which caught my attention, telling it was a mashup of Flickr +Diigo+Genealogy.com
Footnote is a Utah based website, which currently changed its name into Fold3. It is an online collection for military records, stories and historical documents, that develop the real meaning of the term “primary sources”. The amount of the documents is in the form of transcripted and translated texts, including digitized documents and visual information, like pictures and photos.
Footnote changed its name to Fold3, because it wanted to demonstrate its main interest – not only American history in general, but military history in particular. This website is suitable for historians, researchers, family historians, genealogists, teachers, veterans and their families or just for enthusiasts. Fold3 offers free membership or all-access membership. The free membership requires only a simple registrations and allows you to spotlight images and documents, to search and browse images, to upload images etc. While when you have an all-access membership you have an access to all 78, 164, 926 premium historical images, but you still need to pay a monthly fee of $11.95 or an annual fee of $79,95. Another option is to start with a 7-day free all-access pass which gives you the authority to view all available documents, but this access last only 7 days and also needs a simple registration. An interesting option that Fold3 offers is to creat a memorial page, without any difference if you are a payed member or not.
I truly find Fold3 very interesting. It can be a great aid for scholars and researchers, dedicated their work on US military history. An important advantage of it is also the fact that it can help developing microshistory or family history, insisting that a singular persone – a man or a woman, who has taken part in any of the wars in the United States, can be traced and “researched”.
