US Genealogy Advisor

Schelly Talalay Dardashti

A journalist and genealogist, Schelly is an award-winning Jewish genealogy columnist/blogger and the US Genealogy Advisor for MyHeritage.com. She created Tracing the Tribe – Jewish Genealogy on Facebook (77,000+ members in 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 through the FSU, Spain, Iran, and elsewhere. Affiliations: founding member, Centro Sefarad NM; president, JGS of NM; speaker (RootsTech, IAJGS, AJL, NGS, FTDNA, and other Jewish genealogy/genetics conferences); writer, NM Jewish Link, and HaLapid Journal (Society for Crypto-Judaic Studies). She has founded two DNA projects, and her articles have appeared widely.