One of the major goals of the Babcock-Badcock Project has been achieved — hooray — but could always be expanded upon.  The genealogy of two families of Badcocks has been documented to their arrival in the British Colonies circa 1640s.  One of the Badcock families settled in Massachusetts and the other in Rhode Island.  From Big Y 700 testing of descendants of two brothers (Robert and George Badcock) who settled in Massachusetts we have learned that the two descendants were Big Y and Y-111 matches to one another, both being of the ‘ I ‘ haplogroup.  Also from Big Y 700 testing of multiple descendants of the Badcock family that settled in Rhode Island we have learned that they were all of the ‘ E ‘ haplogroup.  Genealogical records currently have all of the E haplogroup descendant testers — who have not encountered a brick wall in tracing their patrilineal lineage — to have descended from John Babcock (1644-1685).  Thus two genetically disparate set of Badcocks, both sharing the same surname, arrived in the British Colonies in the same time period, residing in two settlements fairly proximal to one another.  Because traversing the Atlantic from England to the Colonies was such an epic undertaking, doing so served to create a ‘bottleneck’ wherein a few male ancestors who arrived in New England are responsible for many/most/all of the progeny of their surname throughout the British Colonies region which became Canada and the US.

In 2025 Big Y 700 testing of a Badcock descendant — who, along with his ancestral lineage, remained in England and did not emigrate — revealed that he is of the R haplogroup.  So there are currently three genetically distinct sets of descendants having the surname Badcock or Babcock (haplogroups E, I, and R).  The question arises whether all three are autonomous entities or did they have any interactions with one another?  Did one or more of the haplogroups arise from some NPE having occurred in the distant past?  Are documents (dating to the 1300s) or grave markers in England referencing the Badcock or Badecok surname, applicable to any or all of the current haplogroups identified by Big Y 700 testing of these descendants?

Not only is there the revelation of the three groups who have the Babcock or Badcock surname, but who are  genetically distinct from one another, the converse is also true — there are clades which share to a great extent their genetics, but which have distinct surnames from one another.  The Babcock-Badcock [surname] Project is evolving to encompass those proximal clades but whose descendants have a surname other than Babcock.  The goal in this instance is to address such questions as to when did our genetic family arrive in the Isles from continental Europe and in what regions of the Isles did they settle?  For how long did they commingle with one another?  We already have evidence that the Randalls of a sibling clade in the E haplogroup settled in Virginia and South Carolina rather than Rhode Island.  There are Randalls of the R haplogroup who settled in Rhode Island commingling with those Badcocks/Babcocks.  So there is much to unravel as the story unfolds.