"The DNA testing found no genetic link between the Hemings and Carr descendants, refuting Jefferson's grandchildren's assertion that his Carr nephews fathered Sally Hemings' children."
"The results of the study established that an individual carrying the male Jefferson Y chromosome fathered Eston Hemings (born 1808), the last known child born to Sally Hemings. There were approximately 25 adult male Jeffersons who carried this chromosome living in Virginia at that time, and a few of them are known to have visited Monticello. The study's authors, however, said "the simplest and most probable" conclusion was that Thomas Jefferson had fathered Eston Hemings."
"Thomas Jefferson was at Monticello at the likely conception times of Sally Hemings's six known children. There are no records suggesting that she was elsewhere at these times, or records of any births at times that would exclude Jefferson paternity." "Occam's razor must be applied.
Occam’s Razor, of which I’m very fond, is a problem solving tool and not a law of logic. It gives a probable answer and not a definitive one.
In order to apply it in this case you have to know that none of the 25 other possible Jefferson males were at Monticello at the same times. Seeing as Jefferson was sociable and not a hermit, and that these 25 Jefferson males were family, Occam’s Razor argues that this is not so.
No— Only that “A” Jefferson (several kinships shared the same genetic markers measured, in fact) was present when Hemings conceived. There is NO way to definitively say Thomas committed miscegination with 1/8th blood Hemings. ALL the DNA showed was that “A” Jefferson did as far as ONE of her children. The known history of Jefferson’s younger brother Randolph speaks the loudest, inasmuch as he definitely produced mixed babies with LOTS of slaves, with a profligate ruinous life he also lead, and failed. This is the difference between agenda driven groups of PC libs and clinical biochemical facts.