Tracing Your Family Tree at Home

PBS’s "Genealogy Roadshow" brings to light an increasingly popular hobby for millions of Americans: Mapping our family trees.

Megan Smolenyak, the former Chief Family Historian for Ancestry.com, and Philip Sutton from New York Public Library's Milstein Division of U.S. History, Local History and Genealogy explain how to trace your family tree and get started on your own genealogy project.