CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Hundreds of people count themselves as descendants of Thomas Jefferson. And their numbers grew substantially after a DNA test in 1998 bolstered the case for Jefferson’s ...

Pruning Thomas Jefferson's Family Tree Historians' Report Attacks Theory That 3rd President Fathered Slave's Children April 12, 2001 By William Branigin ...

In theory, since the family has now acknowledged that Sally Hemings bore several of Thomas Jefferson’s children, their descendants should be eligible to join the 2,000-plus waiting list for the ...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — At the call for pictures, members of Thomas Jefferson's family and descendants of his slaves once again crowded between columns of the president's hilltop estate of ...

Mary Brady-Atkins is related to Thomas Jefferson via her father, Marion Thomas Lee (1903-83). His mother, Brady-Atkins' grandmother, was Mary Elizabeth Lee (1863-1940), whom Brady-Atkins is named ...

The charge that Thomas Jefferson fathered children with Sally Hemings at Monticello did not get started by her present-day descendants. The claim has been around for nearly two centuries.

CHARLOTTESVILLE -- A descendant of Thomas Jefferson who has sought to heal old racial differences was among those wounded over the weekend in shootings in Colorado that apparently targeted Christians.