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Letter from Claudette Maerz,
3962 Xenwood Ave. So.
St. Louis Park, Minnesota 55416

Dear Ball Family Friend,

I have spent the last fourteen years helping BALL researchers and family members find their ancestors through a newsletter called “BALL BEGINNINGS.”

My latest venture is doing “Study Books” on many of the families to help us get our notes organized and give future generations a starting point when they decide to trace their family tree. The study books give us an easy way to communicate with others interested in our line. We do updates, corrections and additions in the newsletter. So once you have the book you can submit additional information or gain more information through the newsletter. If we all share perhaps we can all have a complete picture of our ancestry.

I am trying to encourage all to subscribe to the newsletter as I depend on the money from the newsletter to further research. I enjoy helping others find their Ball ancestry and can only hope enough of you will subscribe to help keep the project going. I have so much to share and hate to discontinue for a lack of interest in the newsletter. I really need subscribers to continue.

I am enclosing a subscription form and pray you will join us.

My wish is that you find your elusive ancestors in 1997.
Hoping to hear from you.
Genealogically Yours, Claudette.

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BALL BEGINNINGS

A publication for everyone with the name BALL in their ancestry.

Published quarterly: Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter.

120-plus pages annually.

The purpose of BALL BEGINNINGS is to consolidate all the family data collected over the years into one package for BALL researchers.

BALL BEGINNINGS MEMBERSHIP FORM

___ Enclosed find $16.00 for Vol. XIV (1997) subscription.

___ SPECIAL OFFER $28.00 for Vol. XIV (1997) and Vol. XV (1998)

OUT OF PRINT ISSUES AVAILABLE $3.00 EACH.

Enclosed find $_____. Please send me_____ issues of out-of-print.

NAME:

ADDRESS:

CITY, STATE, ZIP:

Make checks payable to:
C.M. MAERZ, 3962 Xenwood Ave. So., St. Louis Park, Minnesota 55416

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A Ball Beginnings “Special Edition”
EDWARD BALL FAMILY OF NEW JERSEY

Edward Ball & Abigail Blatchley of Essex and Morris Counties, New Jersey and Monroe and Noble Counties, Ohio (includes Charles Gardiner Collection)

Allied: Brand, Bruen, Hathaway, Harrison, Osborn, Winchell, Wright, etc.

92 pages. Orders will be filled promptly as soon as books are available. Cost $27.00 plus $3.00 for postage and handling.

NAME:

ADDRESS:

CITY, STATE, ZIP:

NUMBER OF COPIES:

AMOUNT ENCLOSED:

Make checks payable to:
C.M. MAERZ, 3962 Xenwood Ave. So., St. Louis Park, Minnesota 55416

I'd love to compare notes with you on this family!
E-mail me joannetodd@comcast.net