Has anything further been found out about the similar (but less publicized) theory that the fourth president, James Madison, had slave descendants? News article in 2007-2008 talked of future Madison y-chromosome tests, but a followup in 2011 suggests that no tests were done (https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/whatever-happened-to--the-possible-relative-of-james-madison/2011/09/27/gIQA9evGkL_story.html). Does anyone have Madison y-chromosome results? There doesn't seem to be a Madison project at FTDNA. On 10/15/2015 2:11 PM, Lee Ramsey via wrote: > For the Committee's Report Google - [Report of the Research Committee on > Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings] > > The 1998 report of the Thomas Jefferson committee states "Although paternity > cannot be established with absolute certainty, our evaluation of the best > evidence available suggests the strong likelihood that Thomas Jefferson and > Sally Hemings had a relationship over time that led to the birth of one, and > perhaps all, of the known children of Sally Hemings." > > The committee concludes that convincing evidence does not exist for the > hypothesis that another male Jefferson was the father of Sally Heming's > children. The committee's research included eight of the 25 Jefferson > descendants who warranted investigation as a possible father. The > historical evidence for Thomas Jefferson's paternity of Easton Hemings and > his known siblings overwhelmingly outweighs that for any other Jefferson. > > Lee > > > On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 9:44 PM, Belinda Dettmann< > belindadettmann@optusnet.com.au> wrote: > > >> I thought the match did not necessarily prove Thomas Jefferson himself >> was the father Eston Hemmings but it could equally well have been any >> of Jefferson's cousins or nephews. -Belinda >> > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GENEALOGY-DNA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > . > >