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From: "Dora Smith" <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] Haplogroup K2 Found in Two British Jeffersons
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 21:24:57 -0500
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Sam, I can get your book used for $13; how different is the new edition?

But I'm afraid that I'm more interested in K2 and Jefferson's roots than in
his slave children.

Yours,
Dora Smith
Austin, TX


----- Original Message -----
From: "Sam Sloan" <>
To: <>
Sent: Monday, June 11, 2007 8:42 PM
Subject: Re: [DNA] Haplogroup K2 Found in Two British Jeffersons


>I sent my book off to the printers last night, all 472 pages of it, and it
> is too late to change it, or at least I am not going to change it, but I
> am
> still bothered by this.
>
> Mark Jobling has found two persons named Jefferson in England who match
> Thomas Jefferson 17/17.
>
> However, 7% of Somalia is K2 with a close DNA match to Jefferson. I think
> the reason we did not know about this earlier is that not many people in
> Somalia have been DNA tested. Also, there are many near matches with
> Jefferson in Egypt.
>
> I feel that the probabilities are greater that the two British Jeffersons
> who are a match to Thomas Jefferson also came from Egypt or Somalia in
> their ancestry, rather than existing in Europe as a tiny insignificant
> part
> of the population for many generations.
>
> What does anybody else think?
>
> Sam Sloan
>
> P.S. When the latest edition of my book comes out in about ten days, it
> will be listed on Amazon at:
>
> http://www.amazon.com/dp/1881373029/
>
>
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