The results, released in November 1998, showed a match with the male Jefferson line.[407][408] Subsequently, the Thomas Jefferson Foundation (TJF) formed a nine-member research team of historians to assess the matter.[408] In January 2000 (revised 2011),[408] the TJF report concluded that "the DNA study ... indicates a high probability that Thomas Jefferson fathered Eston Hemings."[408][409][t] The TJF also concluded that Jefferson likely fathered all of Hemings's children listed at Monticello.[408][u]
In July 2017, the TJF announced that archeological excavations at Monticello had revealed what they believe to have been Sally Hemings's quarters, adjacent to Jefferson's bedroom.[411][412] In 2018, the TJF said that it considered the issue "a settled historical matter."[413] Since the results of the DNA tests were made public, the consensus among most historians has been that Jefferson had a sexual relationship with Sally Hemings and that he was the father of her son Eston Hemings.[414]
Still, a minority of scholars maintain the evidence is insufficient to prove Jefferson's paternity conclusively. 