[Sacajaweau]

Sorry...We need the hair from his brother. TJ as the father is still such a great anti-TJ story though....250 years later.

And I no longer have any trust for the Smithsonian in that time frame.

[woodpusher]

Sorry...We need the hair from his brother.

No. The newer scientific method renders your outdated point obsolete.

[Jamestown1630]

A recent article in 'The Chronicle of Higher Education' points out that the oldest living descendent of Hemings who participated in this study has lost faith in it. She has fallen out with the author of this book and ended her association with the study and the Smithsonian. The article contains this quote from Dr. Brady-Atkins:

“I have spent five decades in academia and in science, and the conventions I was taught were not complicated ones. A finding is submitted to a journal. It is reviewed by those an editor selects rather than by those the investigator selects. It is published together with the data supporting it, so that others may test it. Only afterward is it written about for a general audience.” She pointed out that “this study has proceeded in the reverse order.”

She also states in the article that she just doesn't believe that Thomas was the ancestor of Hemings' children and believes there should be more investigation into Randolph, the brother of Thomas.

https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-smithsonian-used-her-dna-and-lost-her-trust

It's an extraordinary article. Mary Brady-Atkins is a sharp lady, and I predict that there will be a lot more fallout from this so-called 'study' and book.