The project has been in existence since 2005. Kent Babcock assumed the helm in mid 2022 as the project’s administrator.

According to the Forebears website, Babcock is the 17,290th most common surname in the world with 32,048 individuals bearing the surname in 2014.  The Babcock surname is most prevalent in the United States compared to the incidence of the surname in all of the other countries combined by almost 10 fold.  In 2014, there were 28,763 individuals who had Babcock as their surname, whereas the second highest incidence was found in Canada with 2,939 Babcock surnames.  Although the highest density of the name is found in Canada, the difference in frequency between Canada and the United States is quite small:  1:12,537 (Canada) and 1:12,602 (United States).  England is the only other country who surpassed 100 (124) individuals with the Babcock surname in 2014.

https://forebears.io/surnames/babcock

The Badcock surname is not as prevalent as Babcock having 2,854 individuals bearing the Badcock surname worldwide in 2014.  The incidence of the Badcock surname of > 100 individuals is distributed between five countries:  in descending order, England, Australia, Canada, United States, New Zealand with England’s 1,345 number being essentially a 2 fold increase over Australia’s second highest 682.  The highest density of the name is found in New Zealand, but the frequency of the Badcock surname in New Zealand is not all that different from Australia or England.

https://forebears.io/surnames/badcock

Below is a URL where one can search a surname (for example, Badcock) and view blue contours on a map of England/Scotland/Wales where bearers of the surname were most concentrated over a period of time encompassed by multiple censuses —

The display of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) results was removed from the Babcock-Badcock Project in 2022.  This decision was made simply on the basis that mtDNA findings have no relation to a surname project that culturally — the transference of the paternal surname from one generation to the next — and genetically is pursuing a patrilineal line.  Mitochondrial DNA can provide us with insights but the limitations imposed on mtDNA are many.

The following is extracted from a post by Robin Spencer in the England GB Groups EIJ Project dated 24 Feb 2024 —

“ This [research] report is loaded with statistics and distributions [URL for the research report — http://scaledinnovation.com/gg/gg.html?rr=mt2 ], but the key findings are just two numbers: on average it's 2900 years between mt mutations (vs 84 for Y SNPs), and the mt genome is effectively only 4800 basepairs long (vs 15,000,000 for Y SNPs).  Like Y STRs, mtDNA mutations are confined to a limited range which means that there are loads of "parallel" (repetitive) and "back" (reversion) mutations, making it very difficult to construct an accurate tree.  Basically the mtDNA haplotree is as good as it's going to get, no matter how many more people do a full-length mtDNA test, for fundamental scientific reasons.  New testers pile up at the long-established leaf (terminal) haplogroups because there aren't new mutations to split them apart. “