New Media Producer: Brad Maglinger WFIE 14 NEWS --- Investigating a topic that has been taboo for years, two North Carolina researchers believe President Abraham Lincoln may have been the illegitimate son of a North Carolina farmer. Catawba Valley Community College history professor Richard Eller and retired schoolteacher Jerry Goodnight have written a book called ''The Tarheel Lincoln.'' In it, they research decades-old claims that the 16th president was born in North Carolina's southeastern Rutherford County. Traditional claims that Lincoln was born February 12th, 1809, in Hardin County, Kentucky, are based on a statement written by Lincoln a few months before he was nominated to be president. The authors believe that Lincoln was the son of a man named Abraham Enloe. Their book covers sources cited in Lincoln biographies and includes interviews with Enloe descendants. Officials at the Abraham Lincoln Birthplace site near Hodgenville, Kentucky are not convinced. They say Lincoln himself said he was born in Kentucky of February 12th, 1809. ----- Tamara's Genealogy Bookstore Online http://www.angelfire.com/in4/genealogybooks/