Cece Moore

When I first joined the Moore surname project, he didn't match any of the Moores and there were already quite a few people in it, even in the early days.

And so it'll tell you which group of those Moores, which group of those Kellys your line fits into.

And you wouldn't have thousands of matches typically.

I mean, when I started, you had almost no matches.

You were lucky if you got a match.

Right.

Right.

So much of it is building trees, building your own tree, building other people's tree, trying to find where they converge.

How far back can you find that common ancestor in the tree?

And so it's not one of these things where it's done for you.

You're doing all the work.

You're just getting the clues.

Okay.

There's a man in Michigan who shares my dad's Y chromosome.

There's a man in Germany who shares my dad's Y chromosome.

Why?

We got to figure out why they do.

Right.

So when we were working with Y chromosome, we would only build the father's father's father's father's father's father.

What you're talking about now is what we're doing today with a totally different type of DNA.