Cece Moore

Never finished it.

She never got that gift.

But that's what got me into it.

And the combination of two things that I was really passionate about was so fascinating to me.

And so that was really the beginning of my involvement in genealogy and then genetic genealogy.

Well, that's a long story.

I guess we have quite a bit of time.

But very early on when I became involved in this, I was aware that there was a huge amount of potential.

When we first started with genetic genealogy, we were only using genes

more limited type of testing, the Y chromosome testing, which traces your father's father's father's father's line and mitochondrial DNA testing, which traces your mother's mother's mother's mother's line.

And it was quite limited.

And a few of us started asking, could we use autosomal DNA?

So autosomal DNA is the type you inherit from.

So it was all about family history at that point.

Women had to test their father for the Y chromosome to learn about their father's line, or you could test a brother or a cousin.

I tested my mom's first cousin so I could look at her direct paternal line, my maternal grandfather's line, tested my dad.

What you're trying to do is see the origin.

Yeah, it was a cheek swab and you have to, you know, convince one of your relatives to do it.

And they think you were crazy, of course, back then, because no one had ever even heard of this type of testing at that point.

So mitochondrial DNA is your mother's mother's mother's mother's line.