Thank you very much for this important information. I don't have this
edition as yet but I am VERY encouraged that Monticello is FINALLY
recognizing that "some of Sally Hemings descendants were from a male
Jefferson descendant." BIG difference between "A" Jefferson and "Thomas." My
research covering this is to be Randolph Jefferson, younger TJ brother who
was known and CLAIMED by Eston's descendants as "Uncle Randolph." I have a
letter that claims that they descend from "A Jefferson uncle or nephew."
Thanks Monticello for recognizing the difference. Nothing proves the father
to be THOMAS. For the latest book on this please read: "In Defense of Thomas
Jefferson."

Herb Barger
Jefferson Family Historian
Founder, Thomas Jefferson Heritage Society 
Assistant to Dr Foster with the DNA Study
www.tjheritage.org and www.jeffersondna.com 




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Subject: [VA-HIST] American Heritage Magazine Gets It Right

In the Fall 2009? edition? in an article "Monticello Reborn", it notes that
"...such as the analysis of DNA, a process barely imagined a generation ago
but now able to prove beyond scientific doubt that some of Sally Heming's
descendants were from a male Jefferson descendant."

J South



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