‘A 99.9% Chance’: Smithsonian Scientists Say New DNA Analysis of Thomas Jefferson’s Hair Shows He Fathered Sally Hemings’s Enslaved ChildrenBy Jill Jordan Sieder | Published on: September 22, 2026
A team of researchers at the Smithsonian Institution claim to have resolved the centuries-old historical and scientific debate over whether America’s third President Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, a woman he enslaved, had children together.
The key to their scientific breakthrough: a lock of hair snipped from Jefferson on his deathbed in 1826.
Smithsonian scholar Richard Kurin co-authored a new book, “History by a Hair: Thomas Jefferson, Sally Hemings & Solving a 200-Year-Old Mystery,” set for release on September 22. It describes a 15-year research project that compared Jefferson’s preserved hair to DNA samples from 13 living descendants of Jefferson and Hemings in an effort to provide definitive proof of the genetic relationship between the two.
The findings show “there was a 99.9% chance that Thomas Jefferson had fathered a child of Sally Hemings,” Kurin told Today in an interview on Monday.
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Big Deal.
President Jefferson had a nine inch nail and used it con-sensually.
Celebrate !
Great addition to the gene pool along withn Sally Hemming, who loved Jefferson.
Yeah, I know this is a new DNA analysis separated from previous ones some years ago.
As I had said earlier about this, everybody on both sides of the aisle is celebrating there has not been this much unity since 9/11.
Jefferson haters everywhere are hugging, rejoicing, and smiling with glee.
It’s a damning visual on just how deeply left wing history has become - in part because conservatives abandoned history and said to progressives “here, you can have this. We want you to have it!”.(but that is another story)
IF you took 100 historians you could not come up with 100 minutes for which you could collectively add together from them for which they have researched God in connection with the Founding. (Eric Metaxas found it all over the place, since he simply read original sources)
But just one historian on this Jefferson story, you can single handedly count up years and decades of time for which they have researched connections.
If no historians write the story of America’s Godly Heritage, well there are no books and that proves it did not exist. America is secular.
(Just making a cross connection here)
The historians are worse than The New York Times. I hate their guts. There’s like five good historians out there and one of them is an actual FReeper with PragerU who will talk with us. Meanwhile there’s like several million bogus leftist historians.
The conservative retreat from culture nearly a century ago has cost us profoundly.