AboutEdward Young Expertise In the realm of genealogy, my knowledge would be limited to the following..........
1. Help with big picture approach to the Dawes, Old Settlers, and the 1835 Georgia Census rolls.
2. What is required to obtain tribal membership in the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma.
3. How to track down ancestors in NE Oklahoma based upon scant information.
4. How to access adoption records as a Native American in Oklahoma.
5. Knowledge of the history and residents of Coosawattee village in N. Georgia 1830's.
6. Family clusters and allotments near Mayes/Cherokee county border in OK 1890-1920.
Experience Research at National Archives, family history, independent study, personal experience.
Organizations Educator, Chaffey Joint Union HSD.
Board Member-CREEC Network Region 10 California.
Tribal Citizen-Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma.
Member, California Native Plant Society.
First Families Member, Cherokee National Historical Society.
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Education/Credentials BS Biology, Univ Central Oklahoma
Post Bac University of Arizona
Clear Life Science Teaching Credentials in both California and Arizona
Question I read where Jefferson had Negro blood in his lineage. Is this true?
Answer Fred,
Whatever expert knowledge I may have in the realm of genealogy is strictly limited to how to connect oneself to an original Dawes Roll enrollee in NE Oklahoma and miscellaneous advice regarding registration in the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma.
I am no genealogist at all.
However, your question is easy for even myself and so why not.
I am a teacher. I assume this to be an honest question.
Three points can be made here.......
1) All Homo sapiens have an ultimate African ancestry including perhaps yourself which dates to between 60,000 and 100,000 years ago. Thanks to mitochondrial DNA, we know that those humans that left Africa, radiated out and gradually lost their Negroid features due to selective pressures and localized adaptation. Therefore, if you go back far enough, yes, Thomas Jefferson has African ancestry as do we all.
2) I have recently heard that some of Jefferson's ancestry is Phoenician which would be a kind of Greek/Arab mix.
3) What you are likely referring to with your question is not that of his ancestry, but rather that of his progeny. Yes, it is well documented that Jefferson had children with one of his African slaves by the name of "Sally". I believe that there is a society today that meets yearly to celebrate their link to this famous American. Some of those who today bear the name "Jefferson" are in fact descendants of this interracial union.
