I feel Dr. Mai's submission is worth repeating and I do hope all subscribers to the list will heed his advice and follow his suggestions.  Likewise, Thomas Jefferson oft retold "myths" should be included.  As the Doctor suggested: "Think ahead fifty years."

   " This G. Washington thread is fascinating, but more for its illumination
of gossiping behavior than for genealogical substance.  I suggest that any GW
(putative) issue should currently be acknowledged as "urban myth" unless hard
physical evidence is forthcoming.
    As a professional geneticist interested in the debunking power of DNA,
let's all just wait a few years until more evidence is at hand, if any.
Public speculation does nothing but feed the flame, and plop a speculative
sentence in an archive somewhere that will encourage someone 50 years hence
to interpret it as fact."

Larry L. Mai, PhD
Long Beach, CA

Respectfully submitted,

Hugh S. Jefferson
Dallas, Texas

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