Update: New DNA analysis adds evidence Jefferson fathered children with Sally Hemings

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The available account reports that a lock of hair, 15 years of sleuthing and a 200-year-old question. The report also notes that In History by a Hair , Smithsonian Institution scholar Richard Kurin follows the DNA trail back to Thomas Jefferson.

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