The Wilderness Road was a colonial road enabling settlers to travel from southwest Virginia to Kentucky through the Cumberland Gap. It crossed the New River just upstream from present-day Radford. The Skaggs family had a presence in this area throughout most of the last half of the 1700s.
Calling all Skaggs! Volunteers needed!
There is news from our cousins on the Isle of Man. Chris Keig is starting a project to test whether we are descendants of the Viking kings who ruled the Isle of Man over 800 years ago and he needs our help.
Famous Skaggs: Tyler Skaggs
Tyler Skaggs is a professional baseball player currently pitching for the major league Los Angeles Angels. He was drafted in the 2009 draft from Santa Monica High School and previously pitched for the Arizona Diamondbacks.
DNA Testing: The Skaggs and the Isle of Man
In my previous post we were introduced to the Big Y DNA test and Christopher Keig from the Isle of Man was gracious enough to explain how his Big Y testing project determined that the Keig and Skaggs families were related and that the Skaggs family was of Manx origin. Below the fold I'll let Chris' project description from the Family Tree DNA website describe the findings so far. Finally, I'll make another call for males with the Skaggs, Scaggs and Skeggs surname to volunteer for his Big Y project at FTDNA.
DNA Testing: The "Big Y" Testing for Skaggs Origins
Recently I received e-mail from a correspondent
who took the “Big Y” DNA test at the Family Tree DNA (FTDNA) testing
service. He is a descendant of Old Peter
Skaggs with the Skaggs surname and his results are very interesting, perhaps pointing the way toward finding the European origins of the Skaggs family.
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