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.

An example is a John Skaggs who lived before 1767.  Zachariah Skaggs was heir-at-law to a John Skaggs according to a deed in Montgomery County, Virginia.  We also think Old Peter and his brother Solomon might have been sons of a John Skaggs who shows up in 1767 in Pittsylvania County on the same creek as the Elkins family.  Are these John Skaggs one in the same?  No, because of DNA testing on descendants of Zachariah and Old Peter we know these are two different John Skaggs.  Without DNA testing to provide the provable family structure we would be lost chasing our tails.

Here's what we have so far with our DNA testing:

Zachariah Skaggs
Aaron Skaggs

Aaron Skaggs

Eli Skaggs

William Scaggs

Charles Skaggs

Long Hunters

Old Peter Skaggs

Maryland Eastern

Shore Scaggs

The DNA results NOT highlighted in yellow are the Old Peter and Long Hunter lines.  We need more testing from descendants of Zachariah, Aaron, James Scaggs (husband of Susanna and father of Eli), William Skaggs (father of Joseph in Montgomery, VA), Charles Skaggs (intruder on Indian land) and the Maryland Eastern Shore Scaggs and their descendants from Ohio.  A few more tests in these family lines should give us some insight into how guys from the early 1700s like Aaron fit in with the Long Hunters or Old Peter's line, whether Eli Skaggs was son of Charles or James/Susanna, etc.  And we would have never found out that the Maryland Eastern Shore Scaggs had descendants who migrated to Ohio c. 1800 without our DNA testing.  Additional tests could tell us more about them.

If you're a Skaggs male and interested in our DNA testing just send me an e-mail and I'll put you in touch with our testing team.  We'll figure out where you fit in the family lines and if it makes sense to test.