_Finding Your Roots_ lead genetic genealogist CeCe Moore joins WIRED to answer the internet’s burning questions about genealogy. Can a person’s innocence or guilt be proven through Ancestry.com? What cases have been solved with the help of genetic genealogy? How do the police find someone from a DNA sample? Answers to these questions and many more await on Genealogy Support.
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#DNA #Genetics #Genealogy
00:00 – Genealogy Support
00:11 – Mama Said Knock You Out
00:47 – A family tree with some shady spots
01:47 – Your Honor, I’m genetically innocent
03:10 – Luke, I’m not your father
04:21 – Genealogy: Where the answer to one problem leads to two more
05:08 – You can run, but you can’t hide your base pairs
05:59 – The circle of life
07:21 – Icelandic family trees are deep-rooted
08:55 – Ethnicity ❌ Biolographical ancestry ✅
09:54 – In the end, it’s all relative
10:30 – I got, I got, I got, I got—loyalty, got royalty inside my DNA
11:26 – Somewhere between 30 minutes and 8 years
12:11 – I get my humor from a subset of my ancestors
13:12 – DNAmaxxing
13:48 – Chromosomes never lie, they always align
15:05 – My first cousin gets his looks from my 12.5%
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@TheSilverFox_
June 9, 2026 at 4:30 pm
I would love to do one of these but you know… ‘merica…
@TheSkinnyZ
June 9, 2026 at 5:06 pm
4:15 this is so cruel, especially considering a rich family would surely have better chances at getting a sick child the help they need.
@thehomeschoolinglibrarian
June 9, 2026 at 6:21 pm
Thankfully in developed countries this wouldn’t happen because technology would likely catch the illness before birth.
@jeremymckinnon5325
June 9, 2026 at 5:10 pm
I wish she said which company was the best one to use to figure out youre own dna
@kelvincannon3675
June 9, 2026 at 5:22 pm
They’ve figured-out hata read, in reverse something soo microscopic, to justify not reading what’s in plain-sight, until after the fact.
@vailissocool
June 9, 2026 at 5:24 pm
Where are my 3 wishes?
@lowbudgetmic
June 9, 2026 at 5:29 pm
😮😮😮❤❤ hard soft science 🧬
@lakraki7916
June 9, 2026 at 5:37 pm
cool
@SolraBizna
June 9, 2026 at 5:54 pm
Statements like “you might not share any DNA at all with your third cousin” confuse me. They must have a different definition of DNA sharing than me, because I’m pretty sure I share the vast majority of my DNA with any other given human. Clearly their definition of DNA sharing is more useful than mine. I wish I understood better.
@clascaulfieldjr3653
June 9, 2026 at 5:56 pm
In 2020 on my 41st birthday I learned through a DNA ancestry site that I was conceived with a sperm donor and have around 12 half-siblings.
@PiotrDzialak
June 9, 2026 at 6:03 pm
Nobody has asked about a multitude of cases were “genetic forensic” proved to be a total nonsense? Certainly, she must have experienced some slops in her speciality.
Oh, “ethnicity estimate” – that’s a bull – good she answered it eloquently.
@thehomeschoolinglibrarian
June 9, 2026 at 6:33 pm
She glossed over that because technology has gotten so good they can detect such small amounts of DNA that they will identify people who may have brushed up against someone, spent time in the same taxi or ride share or a dozen other things that had nothing to do with the crime.
Also very few people of color including Native Americans will do these DNA tests because they don’t trust the government not to use it against them and considering the history of what European powers have done I don’t blame them.
@im_agine852
June 9, 2026 at 6:06 pm
What a beautiful woman.
@DNAConsultingDetectives
June 9, 2026 at 6:11 pm
CeCe continues to educate us all! Great video!
@glossaria2
June 9, 2026 at 6:15 pm
3:05 Glad to hear the larger DNA companies, at least, are still respecting the 4th and 5th amendments.
@HJJSL-bl8kk
June 9, 2026 at 8:37 pm
The USA is not the only country in the world (although that comes as a shock to the USA) and not the only country with DNA databases.
@glossaria2
June 9, 2026 at 9:11 pm
@HJJSL-bl8kk Well aware of that, thank you. I’m also aware that she’s based in the US and is talking about US law enforcement.
@taren1d
June 9, 2026 at 6:17 pm
my dad drew a line on the bottom of all of our feet with marker when we were born and followed us the whole time 😭 i thought he was crazy
@MVR2715
June 9, 2026 at 7:22 pm
I LOVE these❤
@Charline-Dt
June 9, 2026 at 7:25 pm
lowkey wish this video was longer 😭 please bring her back if you’re able to 🙏🏽 ……
@shmookins
June 9, 2026 at 7:39 pm
I have 4% Neanderthal, and 1% Denisovan DNA.
@HobbyHopperJoanne
June 9, 2026 at 9:12 pm
Most people outside sub-Saharan Africa have some of one or the other, or both.
@nissan_skyline
June 9, 2026 at 7:48 pm
Super fascinating stuff.
@ProvocativePixels
June 9, 2026 at 7:49 pm
Naw, 23 and me is now saying my uncle is my half brother and my cousin is half sibling. When not even that long ago they had them correctly labeled…so yeah, so much for it not being correct…
@nobodyexceptme7794
June 9, 2026 at 7:58 pm
Maaaaaan yall folk be out here doing some sick stuff. I see why black ppl dont mess with white hospitals/doctors….stealing babies for “rich” folk….disgusting….literal demonic behavior.
@danielloftusgenealogy
June 9, 2026 at 8:13 pm
8:08 — Irish genealogist here! In World War II, we did have census records pulped, but not all of them! It was only the case for the censuses that were taken in 1881 & 1891. Majority of 1821-1851 were burnt during the Public Record Office fire & 1861-1871 were destroyed after a bureaucratic decision by the British Government. 1901 & 1911 were intact & 1926 just released this year! 😀 Great video!
@xenofiliak
June 9, 2026 at 8:25 pm
Anyone notice her hair resembles double helix DNA stands?
@JediSimpson
June 9, 2026 at 9:12 pm
9:54 – That means that they are 3rd cousins. 3rd cousins on average share about 0.78125%.
@ninottorracastanyes8996
June 9, 2026 at 9:13 pm
Not USA
@RetroDanceFreak96
June 9, 2026 at 9:21 pm
I really want to do one of those DNA tests because one of my parents is adopted, so I don’t know much about my biological family on that side. But I’m worried about my private information being sold like what happened with 23 and me. Is there any way to do it without a massive risk to my privacy?
@miaandersen8731
June 10, 2026 at 7:50 am
They didn’t just “decide” not to use the databases for law enforcement, it directly goes against international privacy law to use them for such use cases.
We all have a right to our own data, especially our own health and biometric data. We all have the right to decide where and how it is used.
Criminal databases should be voluntary.
@curious_people-100
June 10, 2026 at 7:50 am
when will they create biological weapons based on DNA???
@gregboi183
June 10, 2026 at 8:48 am
2:39 thank you for clarifying that they are VIOLENT criminals, I trust you that this is never used on, say, innocent immigrants
@sarahc6473
June 10, 2026 at 10:09 am
Wow this video stopped so abruptly. I was sitting here wanting more.
@joepenrose1
June 10, 2026 at 10:14 am
I didn’t finish the video because of THE MULTIPLE UNSKIPPABLE AD’S 🤬🤬🤬🤬💩💩💩💩
@KataKismet
June 10, 2026 at 10:25 am
Don’t forget about all the people exonerated by DNA evidence
@erakfishfishfish
June 10, 2026 at 5:42 pm
Unfortunately, there’s a flip side to that. So many people on juries now think DNA is a requirement for a guilty verdict and end up letting a lot of guilty people walk free.
@Zado19
June 10, 2026 at 10:29 am
I hate how much I notice more and more how so many of these conversations are anti black
@tejaswoman
June 10, 2026 at 4:51 pm
Can you expand on what you’re saying?
@Zado19
June 10, 2026 at 7:05 pm
@tejaswoman Not really, but if I say “I dont feel seen in these videos” does that help? Like im watching the great depression one now and 10 minutes into the video and the impact on black people is not mentioned, and hes shown 7 or 8 pictures already and theres no imagery of us, as if we were impacted.
In this one the only mention was around slavery…
I doubt its intentional but it the impression im getting
@lindareed8265
June 10, 2026 at 10:38 am
Question: How is it possible that biologists say we share 99% of our DNA with primates, but I only share half of my DNA with my mom/dad? This is so confusing.
@elmojackson6621
June 10, 2026 at 3:45 pm
they are probably refering to entire genome in the first case and to certain (more relevant) parts in the second case. your question is very thoughtful. good to see someone paying attention
@beautifuldetails
June 10, 2026 at 11:29 am
It’s my dream to discover that my biological family is not the one that raised me 😂 I don’t want to get tested so I can keep the dream alive.
@michaeltaylor8501
June 10, 2026 at 11:38 am
This is one of the most educational – & clearly-explained – videos covering DNA matters that I’ve seen. Thank you.
🧬😎👍
@ceostudio
June 10, 2026 at 12:15 pm
With my spiritual beliefs I believe those babies that are switched accidentally was meant to be somehow ❤
@Orchidaceous1
June 10, 2026 at 4:39 pm
You believe that a sick baby was spiritually intended to die in poverty? You might want to re-examine that belief system you’ve chosen.
@ruggerdavey
June 10, 2026 at 1:52 pm
Oh I lovvvveee her! She’s awesome in the shows I’ve seen her in!
@t1s4wur14
June 10, 2026 at 2:06 pm
I’ve got so used watching old support videos, so after finishing this one I wondered if there is another chapter, yet this whole vid is only one day old, and I didn’t even notice. Now I’m sad 😭
@amiamiami974
June 10, 2026 at 2:22 pm
OMG How come this video is so short! It was so incredibly interesting!
@greenblack539
June 10, 2026 at 2:54 pm
i have half siblings that dont make sense. my mom had twins (me and my sister), and according to the dna test, had another set of twins after us with a different father (my half siblings), but she had a hysterectomy after my sister and i, and never donated eggs. and we’re related through our maternal haplotype, and share 25% of our dna, according to 23andme. some sort of glitch in the matrix or something
@T0mF0rd
June 10, 2026 at 3:10 pm
I wanna solve a crime with my dna. For now I’ve been helping my relatives find their parents
@Mallowolf
June 10, 2026 at 3:11 pm
“See see More” the investigative genealogist. Love when people’s names match their profession 😂
@JH-lz4dh
June 10, 2026 at 3:27 pm
Great video 🎉
@mkatseal
June 10, 2026 at 3:51 pm
She works with cops. Acab, I’m blocking this channel
@Roy-G-Biv
June 10, 2026 at 4:25 pm
interesting!!!!!!! i want to see more of Cece Moore.
@tejaswoman
June 10, 2026 at 4:37 pm
Ashkenazic (and Sephardic or Mizrahi) Jewish families need to know about JewishGen, a fabulous resource that is working hard to digitize and index as many as possible of the existing records in all sorts of obscure places. It’s truly impressive what all they have been able to build on that site.
@tejaswoman
June 10, 2026 at 4:47 pm
11:55 Descendants of enslaved people are at a distinct disadvantage in terms of finding a paper trail, and DNA can help. That said, there is a compelling project called Beyond Kin that seeks to help document the personal and family history of enslaved people by creating a framework for including them (with proper, clear delineation) in the family history of the enslaving families. This might sound bizarre, but hang on: the logic is that, however unjustly, often the enslaving family history includes documents and records relating to the enslaved people that couldn’t be found if not indexed in some way relative to the people mentioned. So for example, when I’m researching an ancestor of mine and his will and testament lists by name the enslaved person(s) he was deeding to a family member as an inheritance — I shudder just thinking about that mentality — there is now a way to list the person(s) and any relevant info, in hopes that that might help any of their descendants find information about them they didn’t previously have. Since we’re not genetically connected ourselves, it’s the only method I have to assist the people who ARE.
@coolcycles
June 10, 2026 at 5:46 pm
Destroying 400+ lives is horrible.
@Goddesss1388
June 10, 2026 at 6:14 pm
I could listen to her talk all day, every day…
@9sheri9
June 10, 2026 at 7:47 pm
CeCe Moore??!!! Incredible pull for this Tech Support, she is incredible!!
@alex65273
June 11, 2026 at 2:32 am
yay another reason to hate the rich (and the doctors involved)
@annazaman9657
June 11, 2026 at 2:34 am
Have loved CeCe ever since I watched a series she was in where she looked for people’s lost loved ones or bio families.
@alanbevington4875
June 11, 2026 at 3:39 am
One of my heroes!! 😊
@smileyzed
June 11, 2026 at 4:28 am
I can never get enough of CeCe Moore!!❤
I wish they’d do more DNA detective
She really is an angel 👼
@smileyzed
June 11, 2026 at 4:31 am
If I ever win lotto I’m gonna pay for a professional genealogist to go back as far as they can go
@AlanAponte
June 11, 2026 at 6:42 am
Amazing content, thanks for sharing. I would like that genetic genealogy become more widely known in my research areas (Paraguay and Argentina). I try to talk to everyone about this incredible tool.
@BCC-t7n
June 11, 2026 at 7:04 am
Will never get a dna test. Period.
@heatheraymer
June 11, 2026 at 7:35 am
Interesting for me: CC looks like a young version of my Finnish Grandmother. Wow. DNA.
@fetB
June 11, 2026 at 8:03 am
9:20 so if a genetically asian person, moves to Ireland, lives there and adopts the culture, their ethnicity is Irish?
@-meshitsukai-
June 11, 2026 at 9:44 am
Before it showed how it was spelled, PsychoBeanis fuckin floored me
@biankagonda5521
June 11, 2026 at 9:56 am
Love that her hair matches the topic. Looks like RNA and DNA strands.
@friskybitzboi
June 11, 2026 at 10:16 am
I’m never going to be upset that the big genealogy companies don’t share their data with the police. It’s bad enough they have it to begin with
@kwombok
June 11, 2026 at 10:43 am
7:20 – it is a curious fact that if you go far enough back in time, anyone you meet is either an ancestor of EVERYONE alive today, or an ancestor of NO ONE alive today
@astrogeek1000-o9z
June 11, 2026 at 10:52 am
23andme gives me X chromosome matches: they seem to be only a curiosity because I cannot use them for family tree building.
@sandyshanks111
June 11, 2026 at 11:04 am
Loved CeCe’s discussions with Brian Entin regarding the Nancy Guthrie case. She explains things so well.
@Cara4288
June 11, 2026 at 1:18 pm
And if you are black. Well you know. I wish she would’ve called that spade.
@pabloamador667
June 11, 2026 at 1:18 pm
Acab!
@tumblingrosesstudio
June 11, 2026 at 1:26 pm
THIS IS SO COOL!!!!!!!!
@airhad8
June 11, 2026 at 2:38 pm
LOVE THIS!
@davidioanhedges
June 11, 2026 at 2:48 pm
The big 3 DNA Genaology companies …. sold their databases … and law enforcement have access now
@StraitjacketFitness
June 11, 2026 at 5:02 pm
(This is a legitimate question, I am not mocking or “trolling”)
Do you have a source?
@davidioanhedges
June 11, 2026 at 3:02 pm
Charles Darwin married his 1st cousin, his son studied the issues with 1st cousin marriages … and found there was usually not a problem
Some of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemmings grandchildren joined the Union Army during the Civil War as White in the regular army and were never questioned, one was elected as an African American Dean of the California Assembly … Ethnicity is arbitrary and nothing to do with genetics
@softblankets
June 11, 2026 at 3:17 pm
i’d watch an hour long version of this video!
@StraitjacketFitness
June 11, 2026 at 4:47 pm
3:45 Bookmark
@delphinidin
June 11, 2026 at 4:49 pm
The risk of genetic problems for children of first-cousin marriages is actually even LOWER than she suggests. The risk of a child being born with a genetic disorder or congenital defect to first-cousin parents is approximately 5% to 6%. This represents an excess risk of roughly 2% to 3% compared to the general population (where the baseline risk is 2% to 3%). So the risk is actually EXTREMELY small. MUCH smaller than the average US American thinks it is.
@HoosierSHU
June 11, 2026 at 6:01 pm
You are my hero and I’m going to school to be a FIGG.
@theskyismymuse
June 11, 2026 at 9:54 pm
12:50
Genealogical vs genetic-
(& this overlaps ethnicity) if there are bad reasons your genealogical tree is what it is (think people in wars raised by- opposition forces)- ahem. How do they sort out that mess of figuring out family and ethnicity?
@Kim_BorRev
June 11, 2026 at 10:52 pm
Wow. Listening to the answers and now I have more and more questions!
@jjgreen5452
June 11, 2026 at 11:27 pm
Tip toeing around slavery’s impact…
@floraposteschild4184
June 12, 2026 at 12:44 am
I like how Cece just tosses off jaw-droppers like first cousin relationships produce abnormalities in the children ONLY ten percent of the time, or she has had to advise hundreds of people that they are the product of sibling of parent-child liaisons.
@user-so9cy7ec8z
June 12, 2026 at 2:34 am
Does anyone know if she’s on some streaming service? She’s do fascinating
@tootsla1252
June 12, 2026 at 4:06 am
My grandchildren know they 100% belong to their parents, because I was there and they were never out of my sight. Not for a second! For exactly this reason.
@DC613
June 12, 2026 at 4:08 am
6:50 This doesn’t apply to someone who is Jewish, because they can only be the descendants of Jews.
@DC613
June 12, 2026 at 4:12 am
11:13 Sorry, but I’m going to believe God over you on that one.
@veronicaexposito8368
June 12, 2026 at 4:34 am
Ce Ce Moore is a legend!
@west60
June 13, 2026 at 5:32 am
Hello 👋 how are you feeling today hope you’re having a wonderful day ?
@bburton4469
June 12, 2026 at 11:43 am
My family member met a man who was switched at birth in Idaho. The mother or grandmother didn’t want a red headed baby so they took him. It all came out later in life. There are articles you can look up about it.
@reeveharper6061
June 12, 2026 at 1:58 pm
100s OF PEOPLE WITH 1st DEGREE RELATED PARENTS🥶💀
@Matthew-ix1mq
June 12, 2026 at 2:38 pm
DNA testing sites privately owned? Hmmm, I wonder. At the risk of being a paranoid wacko, I really believe that some government entity owns them and hides behind a facade of private ownership. I mean come on, what could possibly be a better way to build a huge genetic database? If an uneducated dummy like me can think of this, surely the educated people running the show can think of it
@LaineTheLark
June 12, 2026 at 3:26 pm
On top of current events, I’m seeing huge problems in the far future for Palestinian people searching for ancestral records and genetic genealogy. The loss of life, identity, records, my heart aches for all of them. A genocide shows itself in the absences.
@northshoremama
June 12, 2026 at 5:34 pm
I am 1/4 Icelandic and have traced my line back to the Vikings through Icelandic roots
@Thinker-p9t
June 13, 2026 at 12:19 am
The reason they won’t share the databases with law enforcement is purely financial.
@happy-gardener-Aus
June 13, 2026 at 4:38 am
CeCe Moore is such a great communicator!
@jonatanrullman
June 13, 2026 at 6:02 am
0:38 that story was lame af.
@maxiculture
June 13, 2026 at 6:46 am
My DNA genealogy uncovered the switching of my father when he was born in the first public maternity hospital in our city in 1916. I still find it hard to believe that the woman who raised him was not related and that half of our family history was unknown to us until 2024.
@JaapVanderHorst
June 13, 2026 at 9:30 am
1000 solved cases only in the USA or worldwide?
@oldcowbb
June 13, 2026 at 11:17 am
mitochondrial eve is a human? i thought it would be something like a bacteria
@michelleoneal8157
June 13, 2026 at 11:21 am
Please, PLEASE, if you haven’t done so, read the chapter markers. Someone is my new favorite person. I don’t know who they are but they won my heart.
@FeannaFey
June 13, 2026 at 12:17 pm
Frist Cousin marriages only aren’t a big problem if they are a singular event, in groups where first cousin marriage is very frequent it can absolutely become an issue genetically.
@YourFriendlyUnabashedCupCutter
June 13, 2026 at 12:26 pm
We just recently discovered, I have a 40 year old brother. What’s crazier is all the similarities we have. We both were in the military, both have sports podcasts, both have sons with the same unique name. What’s crazier, we both moved to Florida cause life is short. He lives 49 mins away!!! There are more similarities that are just crazy. We are working on our brother hood first before making it all public.
I need to connect with CeCe to discuss why so many simulators, cause it’s not nurture, it’s nature.
@syndicornpnw
June 13, 2026 at 1:12 pm
Ahh, Im such a Cece Moore fangirl. Learning about what she did taught me that kind of research was even possible. a decade later, I’m finding unknown parents for people, like my mother in law’s father!
@netto6681
June 13, 2026 at 1:50 pm
You’ve got to have an almost religious faith in the justice system to submit your DNA to any of these companies that share data with the police.
@MJ31579
June 13, 2026 at 1:50 pm
“Switching out ” a sickly baby when you’re rich is crazy evil. You have the resources to help your child and then giving a poor single mom more pain where she’ll try everything and might still lose a child.
@Valery0p5
June 13, 2026 at 3:45 pm
9:09 and yet muricans still think races are real 🤮
@hennie5307
June 13, 2026 at 5:18 pm
How is it not
@Guy-Incognito-l3s
June 13, 2026 at 5:53 pm
We’re already letting police ands governments invade our privacy with flock cameras and facial recognition tech in the name of “safety”. I sincerely hope private dna testing companies don’t follow suit. People need to start valuing their privacy again, it’s getting ridiculous.
@PigletSaysHello
June 13, 2026 at 7:02 pm
This was so interesting and very well presented by Ms. Moore. Thank you.
@jemrawc
June 13, 2026 at 8:07 pm
3:44 I wonder how many guilty people got away with their crimes or missing people not claimed because they were excluded due to no familial DNA relationship. I’m a true crime lover as you probably guessed.
@tessat338
June 13, 2026 at 11:19 pm
DNA is like money. Just because your ancestors had it, doesn’t mean that you will personally end up inheriting it. For example, my husband is Rh Positive, as are both of my parents. However, my parents didn’t hand down that trait to me, and my husband didn’t pass it onto our son. So both my son and I are Rh Negative. Therefore, my son can never pass on that trait to his descendants, irrespective of the fact that his father and at least three of his grandparents carried the same trait. It doesn’t mean that our son isn’t related to his grandparents. It’s just that when the genetics shook out, he didn’t get that one particular trait. Two of my sisters did, so they CAN pass on the Rh Positive trait to their children.
@quasinfinity
June 14, 2026 at 1:27 am
7:06 I appreciate this diamond analogy, fascinating!
@JiseruSama
June 14, 2026 at 2:57 am
Say the words woman! Colonialism destroyed records for natives everywhere! 😒 don’t go around it
@lilywondertwin
June 14, 2026 at 9:56 pm
Why in the world wouldn’t these DNA companies want to help the people who need cases solved ;(
@TheTwoTwoForReal
June 15, 2026 at 10:35 am
I’m more surprised that law enforcement can’t legally make these companies give this information to solve crimes.
@more__plz
June 14, 2026 at 11:01 pm
4:13 omg that’s some disgustingly entitled behavior
@alexiscrualnvseorm4775
June 15, 2026 at 4:02 pm
What’s the best test for people of black American origin in the US?
@belovedchild9812
June 15, 2026 at 7:50 pm
Fascinating.
@MM-ne1lk
June 15, 2026 at 9:37 pm
If somebody steals my drawers and rubs them all over a crime scene, can they frame me for the crime.
@baron7755
June 15, 2026 at 10:07 pm
3:40 how many?!?!?!??!?!!?!?!?!?!?
@baron7755
June 15, 2026 at 10:17 pm
13:21 I told our Mom about my sister and I’s different percentages, and she thought I was implying one of us was the mailman’s kid!
@baron7755
June 15, 2026 at 10:23 pm
14:30 my first AncestryDNA test, about 10 years ago, had all these small percentages including Jewish and about a dozen others, and then over time there have been like 15 updates where nearly all the small percentages have disappeared except the 2% Nigerian and the rest is British Isles, a little Swedish, and “Northwestern Europe”…of course Northwestern Europe’s category also includes the British Isles.
@anoo_h
June 16, 2026 at 5:53 am
This is so interesting! Actually, my great-great-grandfather (grandpa’s grandpa) is unknown, a brick wall on my family tree. Even though we’ve extensive records here, I can trace my direct male line back to the 1400s, but this still has not been solved.
It would be especially important to my grandpa if it could be solved as it affected him, not knowing one of his grandparents and having to hear the stories of what her own mother (my great-grandma) went through by not knowing her father and her own mother abandoning her and moving to a different country.
I just don’t know if we have enough time, he is soon to be 86 years old. He has extensively gone through town records and even took a DNA test without direct results.
I wish I had resources to help or knew where to go with this one. To me, it’s just missing information in the family tree, but to grandpa and great-grandma, it was a lot more.
@samanthaengstrom8811
June 16, 2026 at 7:17 am
TIL that CeCe Moore is working on St. Louis Jane Doe and that gives me hope for her case.
@e.i.3077
June 16, 2026 at 9:22 am
I have the face of a father that will never have to bother with a paternity test. I look so much like him people think I’m a man when I have my hair in a ponytail and no makeup. I’m literally my Pa in drag.
I can’t imagine the level of EVIL you’d have to be to deprive someone of that connection, that reassurance that they belong so wholly to the identity that has shaped their lives…
@Hammyann
June 16, 2026 at 12:56 pm
Sorry we can’t continually give up our privacy when the police and justice system cannot be trusted.
@caulder2046
June 16, 2026 at 1:32 pm
The way she’s talking about law enforcement not having access to millions of DNA records as if it’s a bad thing is blowing my mind
@mcat7612
June 16, 2026 at 2:11 pm
I was excited to see you on here! GOAT of genetic genealogy
@weirdfairy
June 16, 2026 at 3:10 pm
5:30 OMG ITS SO COOL TO KNOW YOU HELPED IN THAT CASE! Rip to that little angel glad that demon got what he deserved
@nickminaj99
June 16, 2026 at 4:16 pm
this needed to be twice as long
@chimpchick91
June 16, 2026 at 4:28 pm
If you have done a test through 23&Me, you can download the raw “data” and put it into GEDmatch where law enforcement can use it for this! I did that and it helped identify a Jane Doe in another state who was my fourth or fifth cousin that I didn’t know even know existed. Weirdest phone call I’ve ever gotten but glad I could help someone get their name back.
@sethhousley5940
June 16, 2026 at 4:42 pm
Please have her back on. I want to know if it’s true that there is no dna evidence of Rome occupying the British isles.
@luwildy
June 16, 2026 at 5:04 pm
Would love to hear you break down polygamous groups genealogy
@EricOnYouTube
June 16, 2026 at 8:00 pm
Good stuff for sure.
@amywoodington6240
June 16, 2026 at 11:09 pm
How can someone like me help? I’ve helped solve an adoption mystery and have done significant research, lots of DNA matches I’ve categorized. Should I do a new test through family tree? Lots of info in there. Only draw back is anyone can go in and change a profile. Frustrating. Please advise 😊
@patrialibertatemetdei
June 16, 2026 at 11:43 pm
The Spanish had great records. I’ve been able to trace my father’s line in South America to 1506.
@alliplache8052
June 16, 2026 at 11:54 pm
I’m kind of glad the government can’t freely access every DNA database, just saying it seems like a slippery slope. Sure I want to catch serial killers but, we all know they’re not going to stop there.
@LillyDelValley
June 17, 2026 at 1:54 am
10:10 found the agenda.
@JaneAxon123
June 17, 2026 at 4:58 am
Is your second cousin your cousin’s cousin or your cousin’s offspring?
@koolc90
June 17, 2026 at 6:50 am
So basically, black people in America can only trace their DNA heritage up to the point of when we were considered people
@toulousesurvivors5656
June 17, 2026 at 7:21 am
I’m glad that she made explained the term “ethnicity” but she missed a golden opportunity to teach that similarly, the term “race” has no scientific basis. It saddens to me to see how obsessed people remain with this false notion of “race”, even among some scientists, and how deeply it penetrates our language, society and daily lives.
@pikkutaiteilija
June 17, 2026 at 8:48 am
7:50 torille
@PhillipPresswood
June 17, 2026 at 12:35 pm
6:07 That is completely incorrect.
@IceNixie0102
June 17, 2026 at 1:13 pm
Our family trees only grow exponentially for a period, before they start criss crossing because everyone in that village was their own cousin.
@Thaddy62
June 17, 2026 at 1:29 pm
I found out I have over 68 Kids Out there
@IntheClutch75
June 17, 2026 at 4:20 pm
Wow. She led off with the Completely Unexpected. 😂
@LuLu-W2211
June 18, 2026 at 1:32 am
I am always pleased to find a program with CeCe Moore. She is top notch in her field.
@Ms.July29
June 18, 2026 at 9:32 am
14:58 I’m glad you mentioned this. I’m always confused when black Americans’ DNA tests claim they are Nigerian when most of the slave trade went through Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Zanzibar etc. Nigeria was the port where people were funnelled through, not necessarily the cultural identity of those enslaved.
@jubileenharochocrebadeo7373
June 18, 2026 at 12:25 pm
Even her hair talks about DNA/RNA
@MaybeWander
June 18, 2026 at 6:39 pm
What she is discussing around 1:52 is incredibly important. The big DNA companies have made it increasingly difficult for investigators to use IGG. I believe Cece spoke about it in a podcast, but she suggested cancelling your subscription and cite their policies as the reason. If you have a subscription and care about solving violent crimes, I wanted to share the message that there is action you can take.