I'm afraid I haven't really followed the Jefferson/Hemings controversy, so please forgive my lack of knowledge. Do I correctly understand you to say that the Hemings descendant who was tested is a direct male lineal descendant of a son of hers? Loretta -----Original Message----- From: genealogy-dna-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:genealogy-dna-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Sam Sloan via Sent: Thursday, October 15, 2015 12:54 AM To: Belinda Dettmann Cc: genealogy-dna@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [DNA] Have new DNA tests been one on the Thomas Jefferson Sally Hemings Controversy? My book The Slave Children of Thomas Jefferson ISBN 1-881373-02-9 went into this subject in great detail http://www.amazon.com/dp/1881373029 Detractors and apologists have long claimed it could have been some other relative such as the Carr Brothers, sons of Jeffersons sister, but they are eliminated as candidates because women do not carry Y-DNA. Almost all of the other Jeffersons are eliminated because they were far away ether in time or distance and never came to Monticello. There was only one other Jefferson who could possibly have been the culpret. That was his younger brother Randolph Jefferson who did occasionally visit Monticello but nobody who knew him ever suggested that such a relationship was likely. Sam Sloan 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 > > -----Original Message----- > From: genealogy-dna-bounces@rootsweb.com > [mailto:genealogy-dna-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Sam Sloan via > Sent: Thursday, 15 October 2015 3:16 PM > To: genealogy-dna@rootsweb.com; DNA-NEWBIE@yahoogroups.com; > DNAAdoption@yahoogroups.com > Subject: [DNA] Have new DNA tests been one on the Thomas Jefferson > Sally Hemings Controversy? > > In 1998 a DNA test was done on descendants of Eston Hemings son of > Sally Hemings and on descendants of Field Jefferson uncle of Thomas Jefferson. > > The result was a match indicating that Thomas Jefferson was the father > of at least one of the children of Thomas Jefferson. > > However, at that time only 8 haplogroups were tested as back then DNA > testing was primitive as compared to today when 111 groups were tested. > > My question is whether these tests have been upgraded in the 17 years > since the first tests were done. It seems strange that there have been > no further reports on this subject. > > I wrote one of the early books on this subject.The Slave Children of > Thomas Jefferson ISBN 1-881373-02-9 > > http://www.amazon.com/dp/1881373029 > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson%E2%80%93Hemings_controversy > > Sam Sloan > > ------------------------------- > 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 > > ------------------------------- 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