Free access is coming to two records collections:

The Fold3 (formerly Footnote) World War II Collection is free through April 30. Records include Old Man’s Draft Registrations (so-called because men ages 43 to 62 had to register), Missing Air Crew Reports, European Theater Army Reports, photos and more.

Ancestry.ca, the Canadian sister site to Ancestry.com, is offering free access to French Canadian records from April 17 through 22. Collections include the Drouin database of 37 million names in baptism, marriage and burial recordsfrom Quebec; the Tanguay collection on French-Canadian families; plus church records from Ontario, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and New England.