Speakers at the Society of Genealogists’ Conference

Breaking the Barriers – Innovative Genealogy in the 20th and 21st  Centuries

Royal Overseas League , London . 7 May 2011

Schelly Talalay Dardashti is joining us all the way from Israel.   Her talk is entitled - 

It’s In Our Genes: A DNA Project Case Study

Session 1B, 10.30-11.30

This session (by project co-founder/co-administrator) presents the structure of creating and organizing any DNA project, using an established project as a case study. It covers setting project goals and joining criteria; how to publicize the project; persuading participants to join; results and surprises, advertising results and communicating with participants.

The program focuses on IberianAshkenaz DNA Project at FamilyTreeDNA.com as a case study, but is equally applicable to a DNA project covering any ethnicity. This project attempts to proves the family stories of some Eastern European Ashkenazi Jews that their families were of Sephardic origin (with roots in Spain or Portugal).

A journalist, blogger, online instructor and international speaker and writer, Schelly Talalay Dardashti concentrates on genealogy. For more than 20 years, she has traced her families of interest across Spain, Belarus, Lithuania and Iran. She writes the award-winning Jewish genealogy blog, Tracing the Tribe (http://tracingthetribe.blogspot.com), as well as the general-topic MyHeritage Genealogy Blog  (http://genblog.myheritage.com) . She received the 2010 NGS Award for Excellence (“Ties that Bind,” Jewish research strategies, Family Tree Magazine, September 2009),  has credits in many newspapers and magazines; was the Jerusalem Post genealogy columnist (1999-2005, “It’s All Relative); and administers/ co-administers several DNA projects at FamilyTreeDNA.com.

Schelly appears with the support of the Halsted Trust

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