Schelly Talalay Dardashti
About Schelly Talalay Dardashti
A journalist and genealogist, Schelly is the US Genealogy Advisor for MyHeritage.com, and an award-winning Jewish genealogy columnist/blogger. She created Tracing the Tribe – Jewish Genealogy on Facebook (63,000+ members/101 countries); former Jerusalem Post genealogy columnist {“It’s All Relative," 1999-2005). For 30 years, she has tracked her Ashkenazi, Sephardic, and Mizrahi families throughout the FSU, Spain, Iran, and elsewhere. Affiliations: founding member, Sephardic Heritage Institute NM; president, Jewish Genealogical Society of New Mexico (annual Jewish genealogy and DNA/genetics events); co-founder, two DNA projects. Her articles have appeared in JTA, The Forward, NGS Quarterly, Family Tree Magazine, Avotaynu Journal, and elsewhere.
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