Schelly Talalay Dardashti

Journalist and genealogist Schelly Talalay Dardashti, the US Genealogy Advisor for MyHeritage, has traced her family across Spain, Belarus, Russia, Lithuania and Iran for some 30 years. The former Jerusalem Post genealogy columnist and award-winning pioneer Jewish geneablogger created “Tracing the Tribe – Jewish Genealogy on Facebook" (40,000+ members in 101 countries), and has written for FamilyTree Magazine, NGS Quarterly, JTA and others. She co-administers two DNA projects at FTDNA.

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Presentations:

• Jewish Ethnicity & DNA: Genetics, History, Migration
• Ellis Island Passenger Lists & the Biggest Myth in Genealogy
• Using the MyHeritage Newspaper Collection