Learn more about BigY testing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6I0SXBSIVjM
NMGS Quarterly Talks: Lee Martinez: "Enabling the genealogy citizen scientist" New Mexico Genealogical Society

Upgrade discounts to BigY, order from your FTDNA Home Page.

If you are a Ballard male or think you may descend from a Ballard male, a YDNA can confirm your direct male line as YDNA is passed from father to son only. The advanced BigY is the best test, but lower resolution testing is also an option.

For new orders use this link for upgrades order from your FTDNA account using retained sample. . https://www.familytreedna.com/group-join.aspx?Group=Ballard

Project needs more BigY Upgrades or new BigY members: For upgrades just login to your FTDNA account and select the Addons and Upgrades. To order a new test you can use this link: https://www.familytreedna.com/group-join.aspx?Group=Ballard

BigY Group Tree: https://discover.familytreedna.com/groups/ballard/tree?subgroups=302442 (select your group/s on the left)

. https://blog.familytreedna.com/earliest-known-ancestor/
August 2023: https://blog.familytreedna.com/globetrekker-discover-report/ Select GlobeTrekker in Discover Reports.
Globetrekker estimates geographical ancestor locations and migrations across the world based on the largest database of high-coverage Y-DNA sequences, ancient DNA results from archaeological remains, and user-reported ancestral locations.

NEW: July 2023 https://blog.familytreedna.com/earliest-known-ancestor/
The New Globetrekker Feature Will Also Use Earliest Known Ancestor Locations
Big Y testers will be able to trace the paths of their ancestors with the new Globetrekker in Discover. UPDATE YOUR Earliest Known Ancestor, this feature only works if it is entered correctly.

For upgrades just login to your FTDNA account and select the BigY to the right of your older Y12, Y37, Y67, Y111 test. To order a new test you can use this link: https://www.familytreedna.com/group-join.aspx?Group=Ballard

New for 2023, Ballard BigY Group Tree: https://discover.familytreedna.com/groups/ballard/tree?subgroups=302442 (best on computer monitor, select full screen)
. https://blog.familytreedna.com/group-time-tree/
2023: PLEASE READ Advances in YDNA Testing (BigY SNP Testing): https://blog.familytreedna.com/why-big-y-700/
Older Y-DNA37-111 Y500 test can be upgraded
(Best test is BigY Y700, only males have YDNA) YDNA Testing since 2004 (US,UK, AU, CA)
Order NOW: http://www.familytreedna.com/group-join.aspx?Group=Ballard
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/groups/183355574315/ Ballard Family History and Genealogy

June 2022: The Ballard project continues to grow with 285 members and 15 different unrelated YDNA lines. Of the 15 groups, 6 share a distant (back thousands of years) common ancestor in the Haplogroup R1b. R1b is the most common group for all surnames from England, Ireland and Scotland (British Isles). The other group is Haplogroup I2a. Each group has taken additional testing to confirm deep history back to Anglo, Saxon, Viking and other early tribes. We also have some families with Haplogroup F (now known as H2) that goes back from the Virginia Colony to England and perhaps France.

NC Land Patent Database: http://www.nclandgrants.com/
IOW/Nansemond Patent Map: (Map Located below "This file is huge") https://andersonnc.wordpress.com/isle-of-wight-map/

DNA Surname Project: Training Guides
https://pbase.com/daveb/usf
https://pbase.com/image/161113860
Project Results: http://www.familytreedna.com/public/ballard/default.aspx?section=ycolorized
NOTE: Due to recent security changes only project members who are logged in can see ALL of the test results.

Ballard, Balard, Ballarde, Bellard, Billard, Billiard, Bolard, Bollard, Bolyard, Boulard, Bullard, Ballord
Please let me know if you have additional spellings for the Ballard/Bullard surname
Ballard's of Virginia: http://ballardofvirginia.wordpress.com/

Vintage Ballard Book Extracts:
Virginia Colony Ballards: http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~boyett/ballardbooks.pdf
Bullard: http://tinyurl.com/3o7lq5f (Watertown, Middlesex Co, MA) abt 1639
William Ballard Families of Monroe, Co, WV: http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89062849377;view=1up;seq=1

Other Ballard DNA Surname Project Pages:
Family Tree DNA: http://www.familytreedna.com/public/ballard/default.aspx

Ballard Message Board:
https://www.ancestry.com/boards/surnames.ballard
Allied Families: Boyett, Langston, Hooks, Howell Family DNA Surname Projects from the Virgina Colony 1600’s Namsemond Co VA