In November 1998, the British science journal Nature published the results of Dr. Eugene Foster's DNA Study. This study resulted in a great deal of controversy on the issue of Thomas Jefferson's paternity of the children of his slave Sally Hemings.

There are many people who feel this DNA study, either alone or combined with other historical evidence, resolves the issue once and for all. The Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation issued a report in January 2000 concluding that there is a strong likelihood that Thomas Jefferson was the father of at least one and perhaps all the children of Sally Hemings.

These resolutions and conclusions are based on subjective and incomplete historical information. This web site was created to provide the misinformed public with the other side of the story and to highlight information that tends to exonerate Thomas Jefferson of these allegations.