Why start this blog?

I have a family genealogy that contains a Scaggs line that goes back to Peter Skaggs, then stops.  I was interested in extending this genealogy and looked to the internet, however, no luck.  Many other families have this problem as well; their lines stop at Peter Skaggs.  Who was this guy and why doesn't anyone have reliable documentation of where he came from?  It's the 21st century for crying out loud.

Peter Skaggs (a.k.a. Scaggs, Skeggs, Skegg) lived in the latter half of the 18th century and early half of the 19th century in Virginia and Kentucky.  He first turns up in Montgomery County, Virginia in the 1780s, shows up later in Russell County, Virginia and finally in what is now Lawrence County, Kentucky in the early 1800s until his death in 1841 at 80+ years old.  However, there is no indication of where or when he was born, who his parents were or who his wife's parents were.  It's a mystery that many researchers have spent many years trying to unravel.  I created this site to give researchers, family members and other interested parties a single point of contact on the internet to share information, stories and thinking about the origins, life and times of Peter Skaggs.  Please feel free to comment and contribute.