Finding Your Roots

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Narrator

We had one more surprise for Paul. A secret hidden within his own DNA. When we analyzed his admixture, which reflects his ancestry over roughly the last 500 years, we discovered that his heritage was more varied than the paper trail had revealed. Could you read your admixture percentages? Okay, 61% Irish/Scottish/Welsh. What a shock. (laughs) Yeah you see, what a shock. 61% Irish, 15% Scandinavian, 9% Eastern European, 3% Ashkenazi Jewish. - Ashkenazi Jewish, that's a lot. - That's very cool. -

Interviewer

That is a lot. Is that really? Yeah, that means somewhere-- That's very cool. There's a Jewish guy there. There's a Jewish guy in there somewhere. - Or a woman. Yeah yeah yeah, right, very cool. -

Narrator

Three percentage points indicates that Paul could have a third great grandparent of full Ashkenazi Jewish descent, though it's also possible that he has multiple lines with more distant Jewish ancestry. Regardless, the DNA evidence is unequivocal. Paul Ryan has Jewish roots.