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- Like most people, I've always wondered
about my family roots.
Where did the McGraws' ancestors come from?
Well, I knew I had some Irish in me,
but there had to be more.
So MyHeritages.com, the world's leading service
for discovering family history, filled in the gaps for me.
What MyHeritage.com found was surprising, fascinating,
and dated back to the 1800s.
In a few minutes, I'll tell you how you can unlock
your family history mystery.
But first, here's a look at what I learned about mine.
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Well, I'm about to do something
I have never done on my show.
I'm gonna reveal my true self, who I really am.
In order to do that,
I would like you to meet Yvette Corporon.
Now she is a consultant with a company called My Heritage.
And I recently, I've been wanting to do this.
I've really been wanting to do this.
So I recently used their DNA kit and I swabbed my cheek
and they started digging into my family heritage.
- My Heritage DNA is very simple.
Take it home, DNA test, you take little swab,
you swab your cheek for about 30 seconds
and then you send that off in the mail.
It goes to the lab.
After a few weeks, you get your results
and you'll receive your ethnic breakdown as well as
a list of people who share your DNA.
Now, because My Heritage is such a global company,
it can actually give you a list
of relatives who share your DNA around the world.
- Well, I suppose it's time
to break it down for me, I think.
- All right, so Dr. Phil, we found
that you have three distinct ethnicities
in six different countries.
- Really? - Yes.
- [Dr. Phil] Three, so I'm a mutt.
- Well, we're all a bit of a mut, aren't we?
And I believe we have a map.
Dr. Phil, you are 64.3% Irish, Scottish, and Welsh.
You are 28.4% English as well.
- Oh, so somebody swam the channel
is what you're telling me.
- It's pretty cool.
You can actually see where in the world
all your family is from.
And then we have one last bit for you, as well.
You are also Iberian, which is Spain and Portugal,
and that percentage is 7.3% Spain and Portugal.
- [Dr. Phil] Portuguese, huh?
- Are you surprised by that?
- Oh, hell yes. (audience laughing)
Yeah, I really am.
'Cause I just thought I was Irish.
- Right, no, there's a little bit more.
It goes back to several, several generations.
Now, what's really fascinating too is that
you get your genetic makeup, but also Dr. Phil,
through your DNA they were able to match you
to over 20,000 people
across the world in 64 different countries.
So you have lots of cousins who are waiting to meet you.
- Now what does that mean? - That share your DNA.
And you can use this My Heritage tool
to go back and search not only generations,
but there are millions of family trees and also billions,
and I said billions with a "B,"
of historical records to really fill in your family history,
which is what we've done for you today.
- Okay, so did you find anybody I don't know about?
- We have a photo of your great great grandfather
on your father's side.
His name is Pascal Rice.
He was born in 1826
and he actually fought in the Mexican War.
- If you wanna learn more about where you come from,
just do what I did and go to MyHeritage.com
and order your kit, register, and swab
and you can learn all about your family.
Well, he looks kind of a little, kind of like me, I guess.
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Well, discovering details of your family's history
with MyHeritage.com is really an interesting experience.
It's incredible, really.
I wanted to know more,
so I spent time on their website doing some digging.
You know, they say you got 20,000 people out there.
Kind of building my family tree
and looking at historical records.
And I discovered so many more interesting facts.
I learned my grandfathers on both sides of my family
served in World War I and MyHeritage.com actually found
copies of both of their draft registrations
and get this, I learned I'm the 11th cousin
three times removed of President George H. W. Bush,
who I knew for a good while before he passed away.
Little did we know we were cousins.
It's really interesting all the things you can find out
about your family history using MyHeritage.com
and it's really incredibly easy.
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So, it's really fun.
It truly is.
I'd like to thank all of my guests today
and a special thanks to MyHeritage.com.