I believe they have dna tested many of her descendants and he is in fact their ancestor
Madison Hemings, a son of Sally, claimed that his mother told him that Jefferson was his father, but also said that Jefferson never treated him as if he were his son. Fawn Brodie found a newspaper report from 1873 detailing that. But the census taker in 1870 had a note next to Madison Hemings' name saying that "this man is the son of Thomas Jefferson" (obviously based on what Madison told him). Another line of Sally's descendants also had a family tradition of being descended from Thomas Jefferson.
Sally was the half sister of Jefferson's wife.
So at this point the Y-DNA evidence doesn't conclusively prove that Thomas Jefferson fathered any of her children, but a lot of people would accept that he did when coupled with the oral traditions.
Someone showed that Jefferson was always at Monticello about the time that Sally conceived. But of course his relatives might be more likely to be visiting the place then too.
I believe the rumor started as political...and it is more likely than not....a relative of Thomas’.
No, Thomas Jefferson has NOT been proved to be their ancestor. The DNA only proved that a Jefferson male was the father of Hemings’ children, and there were several possibilities.
Everyone is forgetting about Randolph, Thomas’ brother, who was much more likely to consort with the slaves.
Do some more study.
No they didn’t prove that. To prove that they would have to dig up Thomas Jefferson. The story itself was defense of Bill Clinton done by the British journal Nature. It was such wild speculation that the American journal Science immediately came out with a rebuke of the journal Nature.
No, if anything, it was more likely his nephew.
You believe in a fiction.