Two Skaggs Mysteries: Are They Related?

 We have uncovered two Skaggs mysteries from the 1790s that seem to lead to brick walls:

• What ever happened to Piner Skaggs of Queen Anne's County, Maryland?
• How is the Sullivan family related to Old Peter Skaggs and the Long Hunters?

I'll try describing these two mysteries and let you reach your own conclusions below the fold.

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.

Famous Skaggs: Geno Skaggs

Geno Skaggs was a blues musician back in the 1960s and 70s. He played bass with the great bluesman John Lee Hooker and separately with his cousin Earl Hooker. Geno even appeared on John Lee Hooker's 1971 album, Endless Boogie, with Steve "Fly Like an Eagle" Miller of Steve Miller Band fame. That's a strange coincidence since Boz Scaggs also played with Steve Miller and I'm not aware that Boz Scaggs and Geno Skaggs ever knew each other, but they both knew Steve Miller.

Strange Accents and More from the Maryland Eastern Shore

Since a family of Scaggs originated on the Maryland Eastern Shore I thought I would collect several clips of accents and music from there for everyone's enjoyment.  The accents are distinct enough that you can imagine that when ancestors from this part of Maryland moved to places like the mountains of Virginia or Tennessee the locals and younger family members might have thought they were from England, Ireland or Wales.

Rachel (Skaggs) Lester and Mitochondrial DNA

If you go out to the Wikitree genealogical site to Rachel (Skaggs) Lester there is a mitochondrial DNA test result for one of her descendants.  Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) testing is similar to Y-DNA testing, except that the mtDNA is passed only from mother to her children.  Male children have the mtDNA but cannot pass it down to their kids.  Mitochondrial DNA testing is great for answering questions about your female line.