Thank you so much for sharing. It is such a blessing to know your heritage. So many of us have no idea about our lineage. Knowledge is power love. Good and bad, it is a beautiful thing to know where you came from.
This Oral history has been proven wrong with the DNA test of a descendant of Tom Woodson and a descendant of Jefferson's uncle Field. DNA tests prove that Woodson was NOT of the Jefferson line
@@morningglory5915 except DNA proved that the child she conceived in Paris was NOT of the Jefferson line. This Oral history has been proven wrong with the DNA test of a descendant of Tom Woodson and a descendant of Jefferson's uncle Field. DNA tests prove that Woodson was NOT of the Jefferson line
It's exciting to learn your history, whether it decendants of slaves ,slave owners it's about the truth in knowing where you came from and not being ashamed in excepting who you are!
This Oral history has been proven wrong with the DNA test of a descendant of Tom Woodson and a descendant of Jefferson's uncle Field. DNA tests prove that Woodson was NOT of the Jefferson line
Congratulation This Is Once in a Lifetime Accomplishment to FINALLY Know! It is Up to Us to continue to pass Our history throughout generation's to come! What so Awesome Now Is We can Actually Document It....💜KickingDownThoseWalls.... Absolutely LOVE It!
Thanks so much for sharing this ...thanks for showing the pictures and sharing your reunion..It is nice to know your heritage all of us need to know our heritage ..like you said some things you find out.. they shock you... but it is what it is ...and there’s nothing wrong with facing the truth..History happened ..we had no part in it ...we’re just their descendants... and I thank God because I am alive in this earth ..however way I got here ..it’s a blessing to be alive . I’m so grateful to know you don’t have to wonder about your past anymore. Thank God for DNA ..and the ability to learn the truth. It is ..what it is..My ancestry is mostly African..But all my life I’ve had a very prominent Scottish last name. And now since I’ve taken the DNA test ..I finally learned some truth. When it is all said and done ..this whole world is nothing but a melting pot ..the sooner we learn and accept this..the better off we will be..
I watched this thinking I was going to hear about Sally Hemings history not, the family reunion. It was good but the title said, "about Sally Hemings" this was just a little miss leading to me. Anyway good post I just wished you talked about her more. Thank you
I don't think that's the case at all. I think she was worried as a pregnant woman what would happen in a strange land where she didn't speak the language.
@@Intellectualrigor she spoke the language. She was there almost 3 years. Her brother, James Hemings paid for her to get French lessons but the French revolution was starting up right then so she may have felt unsafe there. Oh and James came back too but Jefferson did give him his freedom after he trained another person as a French chef. it took him 6 years.
This is so cool! He is actually the tenth president, it was 9 before him. John Hanson 1781-1782 A.D First ever, then so on and so on. I love your story, you should do an update, this is very interesting to my mind. I will check back later, just in case their will be an update, and God bless you all.
That's crazy I am from Columbus Ohio I was born and raised here I have family in Dayton Ohio Kentucky and California and Augusta Georgia but I've been living in the Columbus my whole life 🧬 something's been bothering me I think it's my ancestors telling me to find and I need some help please
My family history almost tha same warren hooks is our great great great great grandfather Forrest hooks warren hooks is tha founder of hooks tx a town in northeast tx 12 miles west of Texarkana tx my mothers mother was Helen hooks who married jasper ganaway my mother is Debra ganaway who married my father george lee pops my grandmother was a hooks
except DNA proved that the child she conceived in Paris was NOT of the Jefferson line. This Oral history has been proven wrong with the DNA test of a descendant of Tom Woodson and a descendant of Jefferson's uncle Field. DNA tests prove that Woodson was NOT of the Jefferson line The DNA of Eston only proves that he was of the Jefferson line and any of 10 Jefferson males could have been the Father. The truth is we still really don't know
Another historian on TH-cam stated that any person in Virginia with only 1/8 black heritage was by law white and that whites could not be held as slaves. Sally's children were only 1/8 black so by this historian, Sally's children were in fact free whites and therefore Jefferson had no business holding them in bondage as slaves nor would he even have had the right to free them since by law they were white and therefore free at birth. This is an issue that should be addressed.
except DNA proved that the child she conceived in Paris was NOT of the Jefferson line. This Oral history has been proven wrong with the DNA test of a descendant of Tom Woodson and a descendant of Jefferson's uncle Field. DNA tests prove that Woodson was NOT of the Jefferson line The DNA of Eston only proves that he was of the Jefferson line and any of 10 Jefferson males could have been the Father. The truth is we still really don't know
Why are there No pictures of Sally Hemings ?, if Love was involved he would want to have pictures , also he hide her in a closet with no windows . That's a funny way of expressing love.
Sometimes I wonder if people know what they are talking about. I'd like to bring these people back from the dead to see what they would have to say about it what others are saying about them.
@@norrispulliam7810 except DNA proved that the child she conceived in Paris was NOT of the Jefferson line. This Oral history has been proven wrong with the DNA test of a descendant of Tom Woodson and a descendant of Jefferson's uncle Field. DNA tests prove that Woodson was NOT of the Jefferson line The DNA of Eston only proves that he was of the Jefferson line and any of 10 Jefferson males could have been the Father. The truth is we still really don't know
I learned that Sally was a half sister of his wife. His father in law didn't change when he loved Sally. She likely looked like his wife a bit whom had been. " ripped from me" which is what he out on her gravestone at age 32. Jefferson's wife made him promise when she was on her death bed that he would never remarry. Jefferson loved that woman and though not perfect his descendants seem to be undamaged, so why demonize your own father when you're farther from perfect that they were. Judge not, lest you be judged.
I am related to Mary Susan Woodson Flippo I don't know if I am related to your line of Woodson or not I am white,1\4 native american,English, and I don't know much at all about my mom ancestors accept there there names births and deaths no one one in family knows what country or anything, white,the rest unknown we are mostly from Virginia, Spotsylvania,Orange,county.that all we know We don't know very far back past great great grandparents.Have you heard of my 2 great grandma she married Gideon Flippo?
@@fetengineer9151 except DNA proved that the child she conceived in Paris was NOT of the Jefferson line. This Oral history has been proven wrong with the DNA test of a descendant of Tom Woodson and a descendant of Jefferson's uncle Field. DNA tests prove that Woodson was NOT of the Jefferson line The DNA of Eston only proves that he was of the Jefferson line and any of 10 Jefferson males could have been the Father. The truth is we still really don't know
Madison Hemings said their father never showed them love but he played and was loving towards his grandchildren of his elder daughter because they were white yet he claimed "All men were created equal" but never freed Sally Hemings till the day he died.
There’s just something profound about having oral history and/or DNA that tells you about your ancestors - it makes your history vivid. Thomas Jefferson had a “legal” white family and another family, which was bi-racial. They are his children even if he tried to keep it a secret.
Do you doubt, Edward Wallace, that the black descendants of Jefferson are high achievers? What makes you assume that they are poor? Read about Jefferson's black descendants, and you will realize that they are doing just fine. Jefferson was a slug, but many were in those days - - - because they could be, I guess. Continuing with hate and unforgiveness, serves no one.
except DNA proved that the child she conceived in Paris was NOT of the Jefferson line. This Oral history has been proven wrong with the DNA test of a descendant of Tom Woodson and a descendant of Jefferson's uncle Field. DNA tests prove that Woodson was NOT of the Jefferson line The DNA of Eston only proves that he was of the Jefferson line and any of 10 Jefferson males could have been the Father. The truth is we still really don't know
What a crock. Thomas Woodson was definitively proven not to be T. Jefferson's son by the 1998 DNA tests. She might be a descendant of Hemings but not Jefferson.
I have heard stories that Sally was pregnant with another man's child, and TJ made a deal with her and protected her b.c he did care for her. Nobody knows the level of their relationship, but it is possible that the rest of Sally's kids were Thomas Jefferson's kids, just no way to prove that.
@@melvawages7143 Yep. This Oral history has been proven wrong with the DNA test of a descendant of Tom Woodson and a descendant of Jefferson's uncle Field. DNA tests prove that Woodson was NOT of the Jefferson line. And evidence to suggest it was Randolph Jefferson, younger brother of Thomas Jefferson
You've been "acetating your story? WHAT? You've been a descendant of Sally Hemings? Are you still a descendant of Sally Hemings? She was the "comprebant(?) of our third president? WHAT the hell is a comprebant? I think that Sally Hemings, as Thomas Jefferson's mistress, most assuredly spoke better English than you do and would be ashamed that you spoke so poorly. Your connection to Hemings is interesting and your family history should give you pride but you should have some pride and learn to speak proper English.
She seems like a very nice woman, but the facts she has been given are so wrong. It's sad to see all the emotion and psychology that's been invested in this story, when according to the historical record, that relationship probably never happened. It's make-believe, promoted many scholars and The Thomas Jefferson Foundation, which have all made a pretty penny from it. Sad to see good people misled. Even if the intention is to make them proud... they would perhaps rather know the truth.
Maria M. , I totally agree with your comment, why are they making this a love story, he was a rapist and a child molester Point Blank!!!! I would have not wanted to be a part of this photo!!!!!
It is sad. So many people have been led to believe something that is just not true. And even with DNA tests proving that Thomas Woodson is not related to Thomas Jefferson, they cannot accept it. Look, anyone can make any wild claim. And in 1802, a mean-spirited journalist who was trying to get back at Jefferson for dissing him, published an ugly lie about him, saying he slept with a slave girl. Ever seen all the ugly things they said about Obama? Take the ugliest of them, and imagine that 200 years from now everyone believed all of them. This is the situation we're in.
@@billiemason3841 except DNA proved that the child she conceived in Paris was NOT of the Jefferson line. This Oral history has been proven wrong with the DNA test of a descendant of Tom Woodson and a descendant of Jefferson's uncle Field. DNA tests prove that Woodson was NOT of the Jefferson line The DNA of Eston only proves that he was of the Jefferson line and any of 10 Jefferson males could have been the Father. The truth is we still really don't know what it was or if it was Thomas Jefferson or any of a dozen Jefferson males that were there
Thank you so much for sharing. It is such a blessing to know your heritage. So many of us have no idea about our lineage. Knowledge is power love. Good and bad, it is a beautiful thing to know where you came from.
This Oral history has been proven wrong with the DNA test of a descendant of Tom Woodson and a descendant of Jefferson's uncle Field. DNA tests prove that Woodson was NOT of the Jefferson line
I don't care what color MY ANCESTORS were I just want them to know I love them because they are apart of me
so right
@@morningglory5915 except DNA proved that the child she conceived in Paris was NOT of the Jefferson line.
This Oral history has been proven wrong with the DNA test of a descendant of Tom Woodson and a descendant of Jefferson's uncle Field. DNA tests prove that Woodson was NOT of the Jefferson line
What a wonderful story . . . thank you so much for sharing.
It's exciting to learn your history, whether it decendants of slaves ,slave owners it's about the truth in knowing where you came from and not being ashamed in excepting who you are!
As long as they weren't hung for horse stealing. Lo
This Oral history has been proven wrong with the DNA test of a descendant of Tom Woodson and a descendant of Jefferson's uncle Field. DNA tests prove that Woodson was NOT of the Jefferson line
Congratulation This Is Once in a Lifetime Accomplishment to FINALLY Know! It is Up to Us to continue to pass Our history throughout generation's to come! What so Awesome Now Is We can Actually Document It....💜KickingDownThoseWalls.... Absolutely LOVE It!
What a lovely interview.
Win win for unvarnished history for us all. Thank you for your post.
Thanks so much for sharing this ...thanks for showing the pictures and sharing your reunion..It is nice to know your heritage all of us need to know our heritage ..like you said some things you find out.. they shock you... but it is what it is ...and there’s nothing wrong with facing the truth..History happened ..we had no part in it ...we’re just their descendants... and I thank God because I am alive in this earth ..however way I got here ..it’s a blessing to be alive . I’m so grateful to know you don’t have to wonder about your past anymore. Thank God for DNA ..and the ability to learn the truth. It is ..what it is..My ancestry is mostly African..But all my life I’ve had a very prominent Scottish last name. And now since I’ve taken the DNA test ..I finally learned some truth. When it is all said and done ..this whole world is nothing but a melting pot ..the sooner we learn and accept this..the better off we will be..
So very fascinating. I believe I am related to Jane Randolph Mr. Thomas Jefferson's mother
I watched this thinking I was going to hear about Sally Hemings history not, the family reunion. It was good but the title said, "about Sally Hemings" this was just a little miss leading to me. Anyway good post I just wished you talked about her more.
Thank you
Thank you for sharing your phenomenal story! You’re part of a living American treasure! God bless!
Very interesting. Thanks for the post.
Beautiful
Anybody ever think that Sally made choice to stay with Jefferson instead of staying in Paris because she loved him? It must have been complicated.
I don't think that's the case at all. I think she was worried as a pregnant woman what would happen in a strange land where she didn't speak the language.
Intellectualrigor and France was about to have their own revolution that killed many people and she would’ve been dead in the middle (being in Paris)
IF SHE REFUSED. HE PROBABLY WOULD HAVE HAD HER KILLED.
Her son said she didn't know how she felt about him at the time. It TJ begged and convinced her to come back to Monticello.
@@Intellectualrigor she spoke the language. She was there almost 3 years. Her brother, James Hemings paid for her to get French lessons but the French revolution was starting up right then so she may have felt unsafe there. Oh and James came back too but Jefferson did give him his freedom after he trained another person as a French chef. it took him 6 years.
This is so cool! He is actually the tenth president, it was 9 before him. John Hanson 1781-1782 A.D First ever, then so on and so on. I love your story, you should do an update, this is very interesting to my mind. I will check back later, just in case their will be an update, and God bless you all.
I love you aunt Vickey!!!!
That's crazy I am from Columbus Ohio I was born and raised here I have family in Dayton Ohio Kentucky and California and Augusta Georgia but I've been living in the Columbus my whole life 🧬 something's been bothering me I think it's my ancestors telling me to find and I need some help please
My family history almost tha same warren hooks is our great great great great grandfather Forrest hooks warren hooks is tha founder of hooks tx a town in northeast tx 12 miles west of Texarkana tx my mothers mother was Helen hooks who married jasper ganaway my mother is Debra ganaway who married my father george lee pops my grandmother was a hooks
POWERFUL Daphne COTTON Algodon Correct SALUTE GOD BLESS YOU RIGHT SISTER!
except DNA proved that the child she conceived in Paris was NOT of the Jefferson line.
This Oral history has been proven wrong with the DNA test of a descendant of Tom Woodson and a descendant of Jefferson's uncle Field. DNA tests prove that Woodson was NOT of the Jefferson line
The DNA of Eston only proves that he was of the Jefferson line and any of 10 Jefferson males could have been the Father.
The truth is we still really don't know
Another historian on TH-cam stated that any person in Virginia with only 1/8 black heritage was by law white and that whites could not be held as slaves.
Sally's children were only 1/8 black so by this historian, Sally's children were in fact free whites and therefore Jefferson had no business holding them in bondage as slaves nor would he even have had the right to free them since by law they were white and therefore free at birth.
This is an issue that should be addressed.
I wonder how many 1/8 black people were still sold into slavery regardless?
except DNA proved that the child she conceived in Paris was NOT of the Jefferson line.
This Oral history has been proven wrong with the DNA test of a descendant of Tom Woodson and a descendant of Jefferson's uncle Field. DNA tests prove that Woodson was NOT of the Jefferson line
The DNA of Eston only proves that he was of the Jefferson line and any of 10 Jefferson males could have been the Father.
The truth is we still really don't know
WOW.
Why are there No pictures of Sally Hemings ?, if Love was involved he would want to have pictures , also he hide her in a closet with no windows . That's a funny way of expressing love.
Sally was a Octaroon and must have been very beautiful. I picture look looking a lot like a White girl with beautiful red ringlets.
You are so lucky I wish I could find my ancesters
Have you done dna...? I knew nothing, i have traced back to my 22nd greats...some even further... pretty cool..
Sometimes I wonder if people know what they are talking about. I'd like to bring these people back from the dead to see what they would have to say about it what others are saying about them.
I would be proud to be part African American
thomas jefferson was just a pumping and a sweating between poor sally hemmings thights how dare they deny it!
@@norrispulliam7810 except DNA proved that the child she conceived in Paris was NOT of the Jefferson line.
This Oral history has been proven wrong with the DNA test of a descendant of Tom Woodson and a descendant of Jefferson's uncle Field. DNA tests prove that Woodson was NOT of the Jefferson line
The DNA of Eston only proves that he was of the Jefferson line and any of 10 Jefferson males could have been the Father.
The truth is we still really don't know
You must be very proud thst your Great Aunt Fye saw in you to be the one in the next generstion to represent the family. You must
I learned that Sally was a half sister of his wife. His father in law didn't change when he loved Sally. She likely looked like his wife a bit whom had been. " ripped from me" which is what he out on her gravestone at age 32. Jefferson's wife made him promise when she was on her death bed that he would never remarry. Jefferson loved that woman and though not perfect his descendants seem to be undamaged, so why demonize your own father when you're farther from perfect that they were. Judge not, lest you be judged.
Thomas Woodson looked just like Thomas Jefferson but DNA didn't prove it. How strange is that?
Have you seen the room they discovered supposedly Sally’s room
And that proves nothing. It could have been a nursery
I am related to Mary Susan Woodson Flippo I don't know if I am related to your line of Woodson or not I am white,1\4 native american,English, and I don't know much at all about my mom ancestors accept there there names births and deaths no one one in family knows what country or anything, white,the rest unknown we are mostly from Virginia, Spotsylvania,Orange,county.that all we know We don't know very far back past great great grandparents.Have you heard of my 2 great grandma she married Gideon Flippo?
Honestly, I think you are. Your Woodson/Flippo information sounds about right. I suggest if you haven't already take a DNA test to do so.
@@fetengineer9151 except DNA proved that the child she conceived in Paris was NOT of the Jefferson line.
This Oral history has been proven wrong with the DNA test of a descendant of Tom Woodson and a descendant of Jefferson's uncle Field. DNA tests prove that Woodson was NOT of the Jefferson line
The DNA of Eston only proves that he was of the Jefferson line and any of 10 Jefferson males could have been the Father.
The truth is we still really don't know
You descended from an amazing man and a strong woman. It doesn't get any better that that.
Madison Hemings said their father never showed them love but he played and was loving towards his grandchildren of his elder daughter because they were white yet he claimed "All men were created equal" but never freed Sally Hemings till the day he died.
I'm over it.
There’s just something profound about having oral history and/or DNA that tells you about your ancestors - it makes your history vivid. Thomas Jefferson had a “legal” white family and another family, which was bi-racial. They are his children even if he tried to keep it a secret.
Do you doubt, Edward Wallace, that the black descendants of Jefferson are high achievers? What makes you assume that they are poor? Read about Jefferson's black descendants, and you will realize that they are doing just fine. Jefferson was a slug, but many were in those days - - - because they could be, I guess. Continuing with hate and unforgiveness, serves no one.
except DNA proved that the child she conceived in Paris was NOT of the Jefferson line.
This Oral history has been proven wrong with the DNA test of a descendant of Tom Woodson and a descendant of Jefferson's uncle Field. DNA tests prove that Woodson was NOT of the Jefferson line
The DNA of Eston only proves that he was of the Jefferson line and any of 10 Jefferson males could have been the Father.
The truth is we still really don't know
What a crock. Thomas Woodson was definitively proven not to be T. Jefferson's son by the 1998 DNA tests. She might be a descendant of Hemings but not Jefferson.
Did she say "comprabomb" of Jefferson? Is that a cross between contraband and concubine ?
I found out recently i am 2nd cousin 6x removed to Sally. I had no idea.
I have heard stories that Sally was pregnant with another man's child, and TJ made a deal with her and protected her b.c he did care for her. Nobody knows the level of their relationship, but it is possible that the rest of Sally's kids were Thomas Jefferson's kids, just no way to prove that.
Well at least Eston's line was a Jefferson.
@@melvawages7143 Yep. This Oral history has been proven wrong with the DNA test of a descendant of Tom Woodson and a descendant of Jefferson's uncle Field. DNA tests prove that Woodson was NOT of the Jefferson line.
And evidence to suggest it was Randolph Jefferson, younger brother of Thomas Jefferson
You don't look like Thomas Jefferson.
DNA has shown that the Woodson claim is likely not true.
Those Blacks just Want to be related to Thomas Jefferson, they really dont have much of his DA come on...
They match as distant cousins to Jefferson's daughters' descendants so they are related somehow.
You've been "acetating your story? WHAT?
You've been a descendant of Sally Hemings? Are you still a descendant of Sally Hemings?
She was the "comprebant(?) of our third president? WHAT the hell is a comprebant?
I think that Sally Hemings, as Thomas Jefferson's mistress, most assuredly spoke better English than you do and would be ashamed that you spoke so poorly.
Your connection to Hemings is interesting and your family history should give you pride but you should have some pride and learn to speak proper English.
She seems like a very nice woman, but the facts she has been given are so wrong. It's sad to see all the emotion and psychology that's been invested in this story, when according to the historical record, that relationship probably never happened. It's make-believe, promoted many scholars and The Thomas Jefferson Foundation, which have all made a pretty penny from it. Sad to see good people misled. Even if the intention is to make them proud... they would perhaps rather know the truth.
Maria M. , I totally agree with your comment, why are they making this a love story, he was a rapist and a child molester Point Blank!!!! I would have not wanted to be a part of this photo!!!!!
It is sad. So many people have been led to believe something that is just not true. And even with DNA tests proving that Thomas Woodson is not related to Thomas Jefferson, they cannot accept it. Look, anyone can make any wild claim. And in 1802, a mean-spirited journalist who was trying to get back at Jefferson for dissing him, published an ugly lie about him, saying he slept with a slave girl. Ever seen all the ugly things they said about Obama? Take the ugliest of them, and imagine that 200 years from now everyone believed all of them. This is the situation we're in.
@@billiemason3841 except DNA proved that the child she conceived in Paris was NOT of the Jefferson line.
This Oral history has been proven wrong with the DNA test of a descendant of Tom Woodson and a descendant of Jefferson's uncle Field. DNA tests prove that Woodson was NOT of the Jefferson line
The DNA of Eston only proves that he was of the Jefferson line and any of 10 Jefferson males could have been the Father.
The truth is we still really don't know what it was or if it was Thomas Jefferson or any of a dozen Jefferson males that were there
@@balboro2854 so true. It why real historians don't rely heavily on writings from political opponents