Here is his genealogical pedigree:
Famous Skaggs: Boz Scaggs
If you followed rock music back in the 1970s you will remember Boz Scaggs, with songs like Lido Shuffle and Lowdown. He was born William Royce Scaggs in 1944.
Famous Skaggs: Ricky Skaggs
Anybody who has followed Bluegrass music or the Grand Ole Opry in the last 40 years knows about Ricky Skaggs. His production company is Skaggs Family Records. Here is his pedigree back to Old Peter Scaggs:
Busel Skaggs: Just a Rabbit Pulled from a Hat?
I've blogged before about genealogical myths that surround the Skaggs family, for example the famous Mary Thear myth. Thanks to Wilene Smith (alias Chloe Q Cumber) we stuck a pin in that balloon back in 2007, however, I still see Mary Thear in family trees all over the place sending our fellow family historians on useless wild goose chases.
We may have been snookered by another one of these Skaggs myths, the elusive Busel Skaggs. This slippery fellow was supposed to be the father of the American Skaggs family, an Irishman, a Virginian, basically all things to all people. However, I am unaware of any evidence that he ever existed. No one I have ever communicated with has been successful in finding any evidence of the existence of Busel Skaggs either. Yet this ghost appears on Skaggs family trees everywhere! And it's not just me, even the great Skaggs genealogist Ida Lancaster was exasperated with the modern day snipe hunt for Busel Skaggs.
We may have been snookered by another one of these Skaggs myths, the elusive Busel Skaggs. This slippery fellow was supposed to be the father of the American Skaggs family, an Irishman, a Virginian, basically all things to all people. However, I am unaware of any evidence that he ever existed. No one I have ever communicated with has been successful in finding any evidence of the existence of Busel Skaggs either. Yet this ghost appears on Skaggs family trees everywhere! And it's not just me, even the great Skaggs genealogist Ida Lancaster was exasperated with the modern day snipe hunt for Busel Skaggs.
"I think someone pulled a rabbit out of a hat and called him Busel." - Ida Lancaster
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