It’s time
for an update on the Skaggs DNA testing.
Several Skaggs have submitted Y-DNA test results since the last time we
checked in and additional autosomal DNA testing results for Skaggs descendants
have been posted to GEDMatch. These new
tests have produced some interesting results.
First the
Y-DNA testing. We now have at least
eight Skaggs posting their Y-DNA results to the Yfull website. Yfull is trying to document the entire human
Y-chromosome and the Skaggs have done their part here along with the Keig
family from the Isle of Man. The Skaggs and Keig families were together in the R-BY30722 subclade about 700 years ago,
with a most recent common ancestor about 600 years ago. This is consistent with Chris Keig’s research
that the Skeig family started calling themselves Keig in documents on the Isle
of Man about 600 years ago. The R-Y133827 subclade shows two Keig tests from
the Isle of Man (YF19735 and YF12075). The
Skaggs family separated from the Keigs about 600 years ago with the R-Y151542
subclade, which contains a test result from a Skaggs family of Ohio pioneers
(YF18954). This Ohio family moved from
Maryland around 1800 via Pennsylvania.
An unknown
Skaggs family has tested as R-FT6584 subclade.
I sure would like to find out who he descends from.
The
descendants of the Long Hunters and the East Tennessee Charles who was an intruder at Sims Settlement appear in the R-FT12801 subclade as tests YF64789 and YF18953. This is interesting because, if correct, the
Long Hunters and East Tennessee Skaggs have the same subclade. More test results here would help us get a
more accurate estimate of when their most recent common ancestor was born. I think descendants of the Long Hunters, the
East Tennessee Skaggs, James and Susanna Skaggs should all fit in here.
The descendants
of Old Peter Skaggs show up in the R-BY44771 subclade. An interesting finding is for YF18955 in
subclade R-BY114454. He is a descendant
of the Elijah Skaggs brick wall from Green County, Kentucky who died in the
Civil War. Even though Elijah was from
Green County where several Long Hunters lived, he appears closer related to Old Peter Skaggs than the Long
Hunters.
Yfull
is an excellent way to visualize the Y-chromosome mutation over time. For example, here you can see the Skaggs
progression, starting at the top with the Isle of Man Keigs, moving to the Ohio
pioneer Skaggs, then the Long Hunters, followed by Old Peter Skaggs and finally
Elijah Skaggs. With more test results we
should get better estimates of when these mutations occurred, but you can see
visually how we started on the Isle of Man and that the American test results
dominate the more recent subclades.For more information about the Isle of Man DNA project, check out Chris Keig's YouTube video here.
Finally, a descendant of Old Peter Skaggs claims a match to a descendant of Thomas Bailey Christian on GEDMatch. I am in the process of investigating this and we will see if this testing is trying to tell us something.
Thanks for the heads up on the DNA testing. Family tree DNA had a sale over the holidays, so I bought a big-y test. The results are coming back now, but I'm curious what else I should do / how I should interpret them in trying to fill in the gaps for the skaggs family tree.
ReplyDeleteYour results should get posted at Family Tree DNA by kit number. I understand a lot of Skaggs tested during the sale so they might be a bit backlogged interpreting the results. They will try matching the DNA results to the family trees and I hope to be able to post any results.
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