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Am not sure what you mean by "explain". There were a couple dozen immigrant Ball families before 1700 to what is now the US and their Ball descendants make up at least half of the Ball-surname people living in the US today. Since then many hundreds of Ball families have immigrated (some whose original surnames were not "Ball", but became "Ball" in the immigration process) direct to most of the states, not just the east coast.
At the moment there is no central repository of Ball data on-line, although I am hoping to have The New England Ball Project website up by the end of the year (but that will cover less than a quarter of the Ball families to North America). I have the largest database of Ball data (complied by the late Dr. Joseph Druse of East Lansing MI) with about 60,000 individual Balls on file cards; but even that only covers maybe a third of the total possible North American Ball individuals here since the 1630s. While I do monitor this message board and several other Ball forums and try to answer queries that match my card file, my time is heavily commited to The New England Ball Project and I cannot do more than look in my files for obvious matches on the southern Ball lines.
That said, there are lots of others that monitor this message board for possible connections to their specific research interest, so the best option is to start a new thread for each new family of interest and to post it here with a clear topic title that will let everyone immediately see which family is being talked about.
Hope this helps,
David G. Ball
Compiler of The New England Ball Project
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