Zachariah Skaggs and the D.A.R.

I found a post in the January 2008 Rootsweb archive that is interesting for documented descendants of Zachariah Skaggs.  Zachariah was accepted as a patriot by the genealogists of the Daughters of the American Revolution (D.A.R.), so if you can document a connection to Zachariah, you are eligible for D.A.R. membership.

Bible Entries for the Sims Settlement Scaggs

I have been scrolling back through the history of the Rootsweb Skaggs list and found an entry regarding one of the Sims Settlement Scaggs families.  This October 2008 entry seems long forgotten.  A poster to the old Genealogy.com Genforum board claimed to possess a Williams family bible with two Scaggs entries in it.

Who Were the Wayne County West Virginia Scaggs?

There were groups of Scaggs families who showed up in Wayne County, Virginia in the 1850s.  Wayne is now the West Virginia county across the Tug Fork from Lawrence County, Kentucky, the ancestral home of the Big Sandy Skaggs descended from Old Peter.  Who were these Scaggs families and were they related to Old Peter?

More Skaggs Indian Stories: Affidavits, Petitions and Applications

Researcher Doug Couch has a web site containing affidavits, petitions and Cherokee applications for Indian tribal membership from Skaggs ancestors claiming to be descended from Indians.

A Valuable Source of Skaggs Research is Back

The Skaggs email list at Rootsweb is probably the single most valuable source of Skaggs genealogy information in existence.  It is a history of email conversations between some of the great Skaggs researchers of all time going back to 1997.  I thought we had lost it when Rootsweb was hacked a couple of years ago, but it's back.