FamilySearch: It's All Starting to Come Together

I can recommend updating FamilySearch with Skaggs family tree information.  The LDS genealogy site has attracted a lot of Skaggs activity from all branches of the family: e.g. the Long Hunters, and this crowd-sourcing has substantially improved the quality of the family tree information on that site.

I think a majority of Skaggs family historians use Ancestry, but I see some advantages to FamilySearch.  The collaboration appears to be better on FamilySearch since some genealogists try to hoard information on Ancestry.  The quality on FamilySearch used to be very questionable, riddled with Indian maiden myths and undocumented family storylines, but, as more primary records were digitized and indexed by the LDS church volunteers, these have been used by family historians to straighten out questionable genealogies.  It helped that users could easily attach the primary source records as evidence to the family members in question, finally resolving many he-said she-said controversies.  Family lines prior to the 1790 census are still a problem since the indexed documentation substantially declines prior to the first census, so many of the undocumented campfire stories still prevail.  Hopefully, continued indexing of colonial tax lists and property deeds will resolve these documentation issues and continue to straighten-out Skaggs lines into colonial times.

It's easy to sign up on FamilySearch and it's free.  Also, if you go to a LDS family history center or a partner location (e.g. your public library) you have access to the library of LDS films online.  Only a fraction of these films have been indexed so you can look up un-indexed documents like deeds, church records and tax lists.  Be sure to attach the document to the relevant individual as a reference to document your research and let's collaborate to document the almost 400-year history of the Skaggs family in North America.