This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/ZCC.2ACE/10.1 Message Board Post: We are direct decendants of William Jasper Ball and have been desperately seeking information. Would love to swap information. From what we understand, William was raised by the Hobbs family not the Ball family.