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From: "Wil Husted" <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] Thomas Jefferson DNA
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2006 09:03:33 -0600
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This horsey is beginning to stink real bad!

Mr. Bullock, where in heck are you?

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Zincavage" <>
To: <>
Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2006 10:46 PM
Subject: Re: [DNA] Thomas Jefferson DNA


> Nobody can make an intellectually powerful case for a theory which has
> been
> proven to be impossible in all but one case.
>
> That one case requires believing that a 64 year old sitting president,
> rather than one of 5 young relaives in their teens and twenties, is the
> responsible party. And it requires one to believe that Thomas Jefferson
> was
> both a liar and a fool on the scale of William Clinton.
>
> The widespread publication of nonsense on this subject is a disgrace.
>
> David Zincavage
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Don Stone" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2006 9:10 PM
> Subject: Re: [DNA] Thomas Jefferson DNA
>
>
>> There was a brief mention a while ago of the National Genealogical
>> Society Quarterly special issue on the Jefferson/Hemmings question. A
>> brief description of that special issue can be found at
>> http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/GEN-MEDIEVAL/2002-12/1040304772.
>> I, too, was rather impressed with Helen Leary's article, which (as JSG
>> says) "makes an enormously powerful case that Thomas Jefferson was the
>> father of all of Sally Hemmings's children."
>>
>> -- Don Stone
>>
>>
>> wrote:
>>
>> >Here is a link to the Monticello Foundation which addresses the
> conclusions that can and can't be draw as a result of DNA testing in
> regards
> to Thomas Jefferson, Sally Hemings' children, the Carr nephews, the
> Jefferson brother and Tom Woodson:
>> >
>> >Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: A Brief Account
>>
>>http://www.monticello.org/plantation/hemingscontro/hemings-jefferson_contro
> .html
>> >
>> >This article also has a link to "The Report of the Monticello Research
> Committee on Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings" which concludes that the
> weight of evidence (DNA and contemporaneous evidence) indicated a high
> probability that Jefferson fathered at least one of the Hemings children.
> The website also discusses the conclusions of the Thomas Jefferson
> Heritage
> Society which concludes that Randolph Jefferson, a younger brother of
> Thomas, was more likely the father.
>> >
>> >The Monticello Foundation takes a neutral viewpoint and concludes by
> saying:
>> >"Although the relationship between Jefferson and Sally Hemings has been
> for many years, and will surely continue to be, a subject of intense
> interest to historians and the public, the evidence is not definitive, and
> the complete story may never be known. The Foundation encourages its
> visitors and patrons, based on what evidence does exist, to make up their
> own minds as to the true nature of the relationship."
>> >
>> >There is also a listing of an extensive Bibliography for those who are
> innterested. One of the books on this bibliography is:
>> >Annette Gordon-Reed, Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American
> Controversy (Charlottesville, 1997)
>> >It was written before DNA testing. After extensive analysis and
>> >weighing
> of evidence, the author concludes that Jefferson probably was the father
> of
> the five Hemings children. As I said, the website is neutral and does not
> point to this book over any of the others, this is one of the books they
> cited that I have read and can personally recommend.
>> >
>> >Carol Vass
>> >Kent, WA
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
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