Cece Moore

Thanks for having me on the show.

It's been a long time.

Wow, it's been quite a wild ride since then.

You know, I'd been a genetic genealogist solving mysteries for many years by that point, but I had just started working with law enforcement.

Well, I had always loved genetics and genealogy, two separate things.

And I was thrilled when I found out in the year about little after 2000 that a company called Family Tree DNA was offering DNA tests for people who wanted to use it to learn more about their family history.

And so I...

started reading about what they were doing.

And at the time, I didn't have a lot of money to test, so I didn't start testing immediately.

I just kept up with the brand-new field and what people were learning about it.

I was building my own family tree using...

paper records, the paper trail, we call it, which is how all of us started.

All of us who are interested in genetic genealogy started by building our own tree.

That wasn't something I had done when I was really young.

I was extremely busy with all sorts of different pursuits.

It was something that I did when my niece, my oldest niece, was about to be married and I was trying to think of what would be an interesting gift, a unique gift.

So I thought, oh, I'll build our family tree.

That is a good gift.

Aha, right?

Famous last words.