Researchers say the findings further support long-standing accounts from Hemings’ descendants about Jefferson’s children.

For more than two centuries, countless insiders and academics have claimed that Thomas Jefferson fathered children with Sally ...

It took 15 years to sequence Thomas Jefferson’s DNA—and the result silenced two centuries of denial.

DNA study confirms Thomas Jefferson fathered children with enslaved Sally Hemings - America’s third president and one of its founding fathers kept more than 600 slaves ...

New DNA evidence from Richard Kurin's book "History by a Hair" reportedly confirms Thomas Jefferson fathered children with ...

A lock of hair, 15 years of sleuthing and a 200-year-old question. In History by a Hair, Smithsonian Institution scholar Richard Kurin follows the DNA trail back to Thomas Jefferson.

Kurin's journey began in 2011 when he learned that a single strand of hair was discovered in one of Jefferson's Bibles at his ...

Scientists have new proof that Thomas Jefferson had children with his enslaved chambermaid Sally Hemings—and that their bloodline endures across the country.

A centuries-old lock of hair has now done what rumors, records, and earlier DNA tests couldn't: firmly tie Thomas Jefferson ...

The co-author of a new book says there is a “99.9% chance” that the former president fathered children with a woman he enslaved.

A new book describes how cutting-edge genomics techniques yielded “extraordinary proof” that Thomas Jefferson fathered ...

The burial came as the Smithsonian released DNA research it said provides “extraordinary proof” that Thomas Jefferson had children with Sally Hemings.