Ginny has been put on "moderated" status for this very reason. Here we are trying to stamp out this ....uh..."junk"......and here she comes out of the blue regurgitating it all over again--in one annoying email after the other. No, you won't be hearing from her in the future unless she has something ORIGINAL to say. Which I doubt will happen. Craig P.S. I have repeatedly cited Peter Walne and I blew up his intro to his article and affixed it to the library wall in Lancaster County. Never has so much ink been spilt to no conclusion" or words to that affect. I get so tired of hearing this same old same old vomited back up. Some snakes just can't be killed. On Oct 31, 2012, at 1:06 PM, Kathleen Much wrote: > Ginny sent a bunch of material on William Ball from Ancestry.com. A lot of > it is old fables that pop up from time to time but that have been > thoroughly discredited by people who sought out original documentary > sources. > > Every once in a while we get led down the garden path laid down by Joseph > Ball II in the 18th century. He DID NOT know Hannah's last name--it > probably wasn't Atherold. He DID NOT know where his ancestor immigrated > from. Several people found William Balls in the general time period of the > immigrant and hitched them onto his family tree willy-nilly. > > Before anyone accepts the Ancestry material uncritically, please read Peter > Walne, "The English Ancestry of Colonel William Ball of Millenbeck" (VA Mag > of History and Biography 67:399-405). It is the best account of what is > actually known and not known about this family. > > ABSOLUTELY do not enter any of the Ancestry fiction into our NN website. > > Kathleen Much > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to VA-NORTHERN-NECK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message