Kathleen,

Your post is an example of why such heated arguments prevail on the list. It 
is obvious that I did not remember what you wrote between the time I read it 
and when the story came to mind. No one is saying that an absence of DNA 
evidence proves paternity, but an absence of evidence that he did NOT father 
those children, coupled with the DNA evidence that A Jefferson did - at 
least one - gives credence to the oral history that Thomas was the father of 
some or all of Sally's children. All of them were too light to have been 
fathered by a black man, that is why some of them "escaped" and blended into 
the white populations in DC and Baltimore (or wherever the did end up).

The last part of Kathleen's note was extremely offensive. If she really 
wants to find out what kind of teacher I was/am, she can go to the website 
that is listed on the last line of my signature file and collect hundreds of 
pages of "evidence" that are more telling than her smarmy comment.

Anne



Anne Pemberton
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kathleen Much" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sunday, October 05, 2008 3:38 PM
Subject: Re: oral history


> ----
> Obviously Anne did not understand what I wrote.
It is even sillier to say that
> an absence of buttons could verify the claim. [Taking us back to
> Hemings/Jefferson, where an absence of DNA evidence is being used to make 
> a
> claim that Thomas Jefferson fathered any or all of Sally Hemings's
> children.]
>
> If Anne's leaps to false conclusions are evidence of her teaching skills, 
> I
> am glad my children are past an age when they might have been subjected to
> her ministrations. I  hope that she merely read too hastily and drew 
> faulty
> conclusions.
>
> Kathleen Much
> The Book Doctor
>
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