CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Hundreds of people count themselves as descendants of Thomas Jefferson. And their numbers grew substantially after a DNA test in 1998 bolstered the case for Jefferson’s ...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, May 4 -- Descendants of slave Sally Hemings, declaring they were tired of drawing hostile stares at gatherings hosted by white kin of Thomas Jefferson, said today that they will ...

Descendants of family of Sally Hemings, slave who gave birth to at least one child fathered by Thomas Jefferson, gather for their first reunion at Monticello, Jefferson's hilltop plantation in ...

Descendants of President Thomas Jefferson and those of slave Sally Hemings gathered for a photo in 1999.Descendants of Thomas Jefferson are eligible for burial in family cemetery at Monticello ...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — At the call for pictures, members of Thomas Jefferson's family and descendants of his slaves once again crowded between columns of the president's hilltop estate of ...

Paul Thompson's parents had told him that he was a descendant of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, but it has taken a weekend of hearing stories from the descendants of those who were at ...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. - The room where historians believe Sally Hemings slept was just steps away from Thomas Jefferson's bedroom. But in 1941, the caretakers of Monticello turned it into a restroom.

There were 5000 acres at Monticello, and over the course of his lifetime Jefferson owned hundreds of slaves; only 11 were freed or allowed to go free, and 4 were the grown children of Sally Hemings.

Four of Hemings’ children lived to adulthood, and documentary evidence, along with genetic links found in DNA tests of Hemings and Jefferson descendants in 1998, led most historians to believe ...

Sally Hemings had seven pregnancies. In addition to the children listed above, she had a daughter named Harriet, who was born in 1795 and died in 1797. She also had a daughter (unnamed) in 1799 ...

He expanded the educational mission of Thomas Jefferson’s plantation. He also embraced research that showed Jefferson had fathered the children of one of his slaves. By Richard Sandomir Six ...