Please do not feel like you are a lurker on this scene. The Ward family is notoiusly hard to trace. I have every reason to believe that my Wards came from New Jersey and problably from Newark but have just about given up efforts to try to prove it. There was a group from the New Haven Colony in Connecticut, led by one of my proven ancestors Robert Teat who founded the city of Newark. Among the founders were two John Wards. But the Wards are so plentiful, that it is all just speculation. I do know now that the Ward brothers featured in the documentary are not at all close relatives. This does not anything to lessen my warm feelings for them.