Leonard Scaggs and DNA Testing

Recently I put up a post about Leonard Scaggs and his relationship to Skeggs families.  The Skaggs DNA project had a documented descendant of Leonard test and the results of course were very interesting.

The Legend of Isaac Skaggs of Salem County, New Jersey

There is a family legend amongst Skeggs that descend from Leonard of Frederick County, Maryland that Isaac Skaggs immigrated through the port of Salem, New Jersey from London, England sometime in the 1700s and settled in Salem County.  I never paid much attention to this legend since no evidence of Skaggs have been found to date from eighteenth-century New Jersey.  Until now.

Leonard Scaggs: Brick Wall to the Skeggs Family

Leonard Scaggs (a.k.a. Skaggs, Skeggs) was the progenitor of several American families known today mostly as Skeggs.  We currently don't know much about him prior to his appearance in the 1800 U.S. census in Frederick County, Maryland, however, he is the common ancestor of several Skeggs families across the United States and is important to us in understanding how the Skaggs, Scaggs and Skeggs families were structured just after the American Revolution.

Illinois Skeggs Wanted for DNA Testing

The Skaggs family Y-DNA project is looking for descendants of a Skeggs from the Chicago, Illinois area.  Male descendants of Robert Hugh Skeggs (1925-2002) are needed to take a Y-DNA test to identify how this Skeggs family line fits and where they come from.

Nashville Skeggs Descendants Wanted for DNA Testing

The Skaggs family Y-DNA project is looking for descendants of a Skeggs from the Nashville, Tennessee area.  Male descendants of Thomas Leonard Skeggs (1810-1880) are needed to take a Y-DNA test to identify how this Skeggs family line fits and where they come from.