 He also acknowledges French, English, Welsh and German roots, which were confirmed on the television series "Finding Your Roots".However, while he also believed he was a quarter Italian because of who he was told was his paternal grandfather, a DNA test on the show confirmed his Irish and other ancestries but excluded any Italian ancestry, showing instead he is approximately a quarter Ashkenazi Jewish.The family first lived in a house on Broadway, belonging to Martin's great-grandmother.