We truly welcome submissions of additional material on New England origin Ball families and, particularly, corrections to data on this website (including typos). When sending information, be as specific as you can, but we fully understand that no one has all of the details that they wished they had. To the extent that you know it, for each person please provide:

  • Name, including middle name(s) or initials, if any, as well as unusual nicknames
  • Date (day-month-year) and place of birth (please use letters for month)
  • Date and place of any marriage(s) and divorce(s)
  • Spouse data including: dates, places, parent names, and data on other marriages of those spouses
  • Children (identified by spouse)
  • For people no longer living: date and place of death
  • As well as place of burial (cemetery name and town)
  • Photos of non-living persons included above

Data beyond names for living people is appreciated and is entered into the Project master file, but not published during their lifetime. However, there will come a time for each of us when some future researcher will appreciate that dates, places and notes were recorded for posterity.

If you have interesting documented biographical details, such as occupations, military service, significant honors and achievements, we hope you'll include those as well. If your information is not complete, then feel free to send us what you have now. We can always add more details later as they are discovered. We do reserve the right to selectively edit and format your text offerings to fit the overall style and content of the Project.

We prefer data being submitted either attached to an email (MS-Word document, text file, PDF, or JPG)  or detailed in the body of an email, but delivery via postal mail is also fine (David G. Ball, 131 - 3300 Capilano Road, North Vancouver, BC, V7R 4H8, Canada). In any event please send information in the form that is most convenient for you. Data can also be forwarded as an electronic file from any genealogy software. We can generally import directly from back-up files from Family Tree Maker, Family Gathering, Family Origins, Generations, Legacy, PAF, Roots IV, The Master Genealogist, Ultimate Family Tree, and Visual Roots. All other software users need to generate a GEDCOM to provide data electronically. Ask, if you need help to prepare a file.

Photos and Documents

Photos are limited to non-living individuals. When known, it is helpful to include an estimate of the date each photo was taken, along with identification of the people in each photo.  As can be seen in the website photo gallery, it is nice to have young adult photos paired with photos taken later in life.  We can do cropping, some photo repair, and the sizing and joining of two photos.  We prefer to receive files 100K or larger for portraits and 400K or larger for groups, but will work with what is available.

Click on the name below to send an email to the Project.