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