The Complete WWI & WWII Fold3 Research Kit

Stop searching blindly and start researching with a plan. The Complete WWI & WWII Fold3 Research Kit brings together four practical research toolkits designed to help genealogists, family historians, and military researchers navigate Fold3 and the NARA Catalog more effectively.

Whether you're researching a WWI doughboy, a WWII service member, a military unit, or an entire family’s wartime story, this collection helps you understand where to search, what to search for, and how to move from one record to the next.

Inside the Kit

Toolkit #1 — Fold3 & NARA Catalog Search Techniques
Learn practical strategies for searching two of the most important resources for military research. Discover how to approach searches, refine results, follow leads, and uncover records and publications that may not appear through a simple name search.

Toolkit #2 — Fold3 WWI Publications
A curated reference of WWI publications available on Fold3, organized by title with links so you can quickly identify resources that may help with your research.

Toolkit #3 — Fold3 WWII Publications
Explore WWII publications available on Fold3, organized by title with links. Find unit histories, military publications, rosters, reports, and other resources that can provide context and clues about your service member and their military experience.

Toolkit #4 — The Research Roadmap
Don't know where to begin—or what to do next? The Research Roadmap provides a framework for moving through your military research education with Jennifer Holik, step by step.

More Than a Collection of Links

This kit is designed to help you research smarter, not simply search longer. Instead of relying on a handful of familiar databases, you'll have a structured set of tools to help you explore Fold3 and NARA more strategically and discover publications and resources you may never have encountered on your own.

WWI. WWII. Fold3. NARA. One research kit. A better way to begin uncovering the story behind the service.