The fact that Thomas Jefferson had children with Sally Hemings was denied by Jefferson's family for almost two centuries–until DNA evidence confirmed it. A descendent of Sally Hemings learns the ...

Kern continues: "And so 14-year-old Sally Hemings, who has known Virginia ... it was proven by DNA tests done on their ...

Jefferson's slave records listing the names of Sally Hemings and her sons. If Jefferson fathered a child with Hemings, all his male descendants should carry a nearly identical copy of his Y ...

About 15 years ago, Gardner started tracking down descendants of famous Europeans ... about being descended from Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings. “He was a brilliant man who preached ...

Her case seemed to be substantiated some time later when DNA testing revealed a match between descendants of a male Jefferson relative and a male descendent of Eston Hemings, one of Sally Hemings ...