It all started when CeCe Moore decided to make a family tree as a wedding gift for her niece. At that point she’d had a whole career in entertainment, working as a model and television and musical theatre actress. But once she started digging into her family history, CeCe quickly realized that she couldn’t put it down. “It just started as a hobby, but once I saw the potential of it, I kind of dropped everything else I was doing,” she said. CeCe started a blog to share her genealogical discoveries, and soon garnered a large readership. She started getting messages from people who’d been adopted or discovered that they hadn’t been raised by their biological parents, asking for help constructing their own family trees. CeCe taught herself how to reverse engineer family trees using public DNA databases, and started working as a genetic genealogist. She and other genetic genealogists - “citizen scientists,” she calls them - developed a methodology that has since helped thousands of people