MyHeritage DNA Reveal with Pete Hegseth from Fox & Friends

Friend of MyHeritage and author of the book “Something Beautiful Happened,” Yvette Corporon, recently visited the set of Fox and Friends where she revealed DNA test results of Pete Hegseth and Rachel Campos-Duffy live on air. Yvette provided them with their DNA ethnicity results and genealogical research containing fascinating historical documents found by the MyHeritage research team.

Watch the full segment here:

Pete Hegseth

Pete was confident that his results would show his Norwegian background. They more than confirmed his hypothesis, showing an overwhelming 96.4% Scandinavian! He also had 2% Irish, Scottish, and Welsh, and 1.6% percent North and West European.

The MyHeritage team located a photo of Pete’s great-grandparents, who were born in Norway! The couple settled in Minnesota, and Gunder became a very prosperous farmer. The couple had 11 children.

Gunder and Dena Frayum, Pete’s great-grandparents.

Looking at the other side of the family, we were able to explain Pete’s deep roots in the Lutheran church. Pete’s great-grandfather John Hegseth moved around as a child. His mother passed away, leaving his father a widow with four children. His father remarried a woman with six children. When John’s father passed away, it was no longer possible for John’s stepmother to care for all the children, and she put him up for adoption. He was adopted by a local reverend, a man who founded the local church which is the head church.

John Hegseth’s Census record from the 1900 US Federal Census in MyHeritage SuperSearch.

Rachel Campos-Duffy

Rachel’s DNA results showed her to be 70.9% European — made up of 59.9% South European, 8.1% percent North and West European, and 2.9% Eastern European, in addition to 21.3% Central American, and 7.8% African.

Rachel’s full ethnicity breakdown on MyHeritage.

Her great-grandfather, Juan Jose Socko Núñez, was a musician in Spain. He studied at a provincial school of music in Madrid, later he moving to Santander where he lived in an apartment with four other musicians. He was actually fired from his job for standing up and speaking out for his beliefs, a trait passed down to Rachel and her family!

We also located Rachel’s grandfather’s baptismal certificate from Mexico, from his baptism on October 25, 1903.

Baptismal certificate for Rafael Campos from MyHeritage SuperSearch.

Pete and Rachel gained insight into their roots and were able to relate to their past on a different level after putting faces to the names in their trees.

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