Where can we obtain this reference? -----Original Message----- >From: Kathleen Much <much.bookdr@gmail.com> >Sent: Oct 31, 2012 1:06 PM >To: va-northern-neck@rootsweb.com >Subject: Re: [VA-NORTHERN-NECK] VA-NORTHERN-NECK Digest, Vol 4, Issue 178 > >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