President s ceo. a place of saolemnity or celebration? i refuse to choose. reporter: tribal arts and fashion, relics of protests and resistance. it s this infusion of trauma and joy constantly that we like to talk about here. you get the full story and you re going to get all of the context in it. what arguably is the best ilstation of storm context is the museum s center of family history. it s a team of researchers with access to millions of records that can trace african-americans back to this very port. the expert genealogist spent a month tracing moy lineage, and this was the date of the long-awaited reveal. make sure you ve got a box of kleenex by you and sit back and enjoy. reporter: that s the museum s top genealogist who is joining us from the university of virginia.
Bricks for right. cnn white house reporter kevin liptak live in london in dublin forest this morning, kevin, nice to see you. present is also expected to meet with a genealogist. what is he expecting to learn about his ancestors that he doesn t already know? yeah well, i think he s looking for what a lot of americans are looking for when they come here to ireland is some kind of connection to their past something in that in their past, they can kind of identify with in their own lives, and it s been so interesting. most of these foreign trips usually have a big policy objective. there is no huge policy objective on this trip. the president s aides aren t even really pretending that there is, in fact. the biggest piece of background that they sent out ahead of time was this five page a genealogical table of the president s roots here in ireland, and you really see him so comfortable and so at ease in this country when he spoke, told lawmakers yesterday he entered the parliament, he said
Howling through all the pictures and information in the case filed. she was hoping to get to know someone else. what do you know about your unknown suspect, you know it s a man, you know he s between the ages of we don t know his age. we know that the witness said that he was in his early 20s, but ultimately nobody else saw him. detective jensen decided the key to all of this was the dna profiles. she decided to consult with a genealogist, and upload the suspects profile into a website called gedmatch a site used to track them relatives. they allow law enforcement upload kits or dna, that dna is matched with other kids who opt in who want to assist law enforcement. so jensen started looking for any people with genie similar to that of the suspect. this is not just a matter of putting code into a computer, it s the equivalent of old fashion shoe leather detective work, but for the 21st century.
Back. it s hard to imagine how they can trust your answers when you re not willing to admit the depth of your deception. reporter: today k files unveiling more lies. i attended a prep school in the bronx. in my senior year of prep school unfortunately my parents fell on hard times. i left school four months to graduation. reporter: but a spokesperson for horace mann said there s no record of him attending. we don t carry the ukrainian last name. a lot of people descendents of world war ii, refugees or survivors of the holocaust change so i don t carry the family last name. reporter: a genealogist previously told cnn there s no sign of jewish and/or ukrainian
Claiming he attended an elite prep school. a good prep school which was harrisman prep in the bronx. and my senior year of prep school unfortunately my parents fell on hard times. i left school four months till graduation. reporter: but a spokesperson for horace mann telling cnn there is no evidence santos ever attended the school. and further fabrications about his family heritage. we don t carry the ukrainian last name for a lot of people who are descendants of world war ii refugees or survivors of the holocaust. a lot of names and paperwork were changed in the name of survival. so i don t carry the family last name. that would have been zabrovsky. reporter: a genealogist previously told cnn there s no sign of jewish and/or ukrainian heritage and no indication of name changes along the way. but santos appeared to use the alias anthony zabrovsky for fund-raising for a pet charity. santos insisting despite the
Back. it s hard to imagine how they could possibly trust your explanations when you re not even willing to admit the depth of your deception to them. reporter: tonight cnn s k file under covering more saying he attended an elite prep school. it was in the bronx and on my seen be i don t remember year of prep school unfortunately my parents fell on hard times. i left school four months to graduation. but a spokesperson said there is no evidence santos ever attended the school and further fabrications about his family heritage. we don t carry the ukrainian last name. for a lot of people who are p world war ii refugees or survivors. a lot of names and paperwork were changed so i don t carry the family last name. a genealogist recently told
But there is no record of santos appearing on the panel or even attending the conference. and goldman sachs had previously said he never worked there. cnn also found additional false claims about his family s background. santos claiming his mother s jewish name was sabrovski, and even appearing to use the name for a charity posting. we don t carry the ukrainian last name for a lot of people who are descendants of the war and survivors. a lot of the names were changed in name of survival. reporter: but according to a professional genealogist who helped research santos background for cnn, there is no evidence of that name nor jewish nor ukrainian heritage in his family tree. my father fled socialism in brazil. my mother fled socialism in europe. and they came here and built a family. reporter: cnn s review found santos mother was actually born in brazil. now it s going to be incumbent upon me to deliver on those results. and i look forward to
Contradicted by family trees compiled by genealogy websites, records on jewish refugees, and interviews with multiple genealogists. one professional genealogist who spoke with cnn said there is no sign of jewish and/or ukrainian heritage, and no indication of name changes along the way. santos now saying he never claimed to be jewish. i always joked i m catholic, but i m also jew-ish, as in ish. and i ve made that joke because growing up, i grew up fully aware that my grandparents were jewish. reporter: but cnn learning that santos described himself as a proud american jew in a document he shared with prominent jewish groups. shalom to everybody. reporter: santos now drawing the ire of the republican jewish coalition, who says they were deceived. santos will no longer be welcome at our jc events. i m not a fraud. i m not a cartoon character. i m not some mythical creature that was invented.