New England Ball Project
The New England “Ball” Project is a modified “one-name” study that attempts to identify as many “Ball” surname persons resident in New England at some time between circa 1630 and the present, to link them in families, ideally headed by “Ball” immigrant ancestors to North America.The website at http://www.newenglandballproject.comhttp://www.newenglandballproject.com was created yesterday and has 48,500 people of which over 9,500 are surname Ball.The Project will grow at the rate of 500 to 1,000 people per month.
The intent is to document the source(s) for all names, relationships, dates, places, and events that that make up the database in the Project and to publish the families in a way that all have access to the results without cost.
While there is no prohibition on tracking Ball descendants of other surnames, the focus of the Project will be on the Ball surname and additions to the trees beyond the Ball surname will be done on an ad-hoc basis (generally because someone else has donated the material).Similarly, the Project includes tracking Ball surname descendants that migrate outside of New England, but the level of primary record detail for those cases will likely be less than for New England events and typically only be supported by census records, on-line data, and secondary sources.
David G. Ball
Project Compiler
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