Smithsonian Uses Genomics to Confirm Thomas Jefferson Fathered Hemings’s Children
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A new book reveals how advanced genomics techniques provided strong evidence that Thomas Jefferson fathered children with Sally Hemings. This discovery, supported by DNA analysis of Jefferson's hair, offers extraordinary proof of their historical connection two centuries later.
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