The cited Monticello web pages initiated a biased and one sided report chaired by an African-American oral history specialist who used the Pike Co., Ohio interview of Madison Hemings by Samuel Wetmore as a “road map”. Dr. Daniel Jordan, Monticello President, swept this important Minority Report document “under the carpet” until I revealed it’s existance to the Chairman, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation. This report was written by his long time Monticello employee and member of the Monticello Study Group, Dr. Ken Wallenborn, presently President, Thomas Jefferson Heritage Society (www.tjheritage.org).

Extensive researcdh of Madison’s statements have found many errors including the one about his naming by Dolley Madison upon the occasion of her visit to Monticello on his birth date Jan 19, 1805. Research reveals that she NEVER made such a visit and the Madison Papers indicate that the Madisons NEVER traveled to Virginia from Washington during winter. This was an attempt by a northern abolitionist, Samuel Wetmore, to inflict embarrasment upon Thomas Jefferson.

The DNA Study of which I assisted Dr. Foster with, tested a known Eston Hemings descendant, whose family had ALWAYS claimed descent from “a Jefferson uncle”, meaning Randolph Jefferson, who had the Jefferson DNA ALREADY…testing didn’t have to show that…..however Dr. Foster DID NOT reveal this to Nature Journal, the media, Monticello or the many rersearchers. YES, there would be a match, and there was…….just some Jefferson…..and confirms the Eston Hemings oral family claims that they have Jefferson DNA (from Randolph, TJ’s younger brother), who was invited to visit Monticello EXACTLY nine months prior to Eston Hemings’s birth.