Another Call for Skaggs Men for DNA Testing

We've made a lot of progress with our Skaggs DNA testing.  We've had a lot of descendants of Old Peter Skaggs and the Long Hunters do the Y-DNA testing and it's really paid off with the knowledge we've gained.  We can go back to the early 1700s pretty confidently for the Long Hunters and we still think Old Peter Skaggs' parents are likely John Skaggs and Ruth Elkins despite many opportunities to prove that theory wrong.  But now we're finding our relative lack of knowledge about the other Skaggs lines is hurting our research back to the year 1700 because it's too easy to confuse an ancestor of Zachariah or Aaron Skaggs with those of Old Peter.  We need more Y-DNA testers in certain Skaggs family lines to make a lot of our deed and court record searches support provable DNA relationships.

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