JGSGB-Notices Mailing List: Sun, Apr 12 - Sephardic Research & Belarus Research - Temple Emanuel, Newton - 1:30 & 3:00

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Schelly Talalay Dardashti

Sunday, April 12, 2015

at Temple Emanuel, Newton

1:30 pm - Jewish Genealogy’s Other Side: Sephardic Research

Schelly Talalay Dardashti will introduce the growing field of Sephardic research, surveying websites, discussion groups, books, journals, conferences, archives and libraries, ongoing research projects, researchers, and DNA projects. She will include information on the Sephardic presence in Eastern Europe, a topic that has not been explored widely by researchers.

3:00 pm -  Belarus Research and My Sephardic Roots

In her second talk, Dardashti will cover the resources available for searching for family from Belarus. She will overview key historical events and their impact on the Jewish community. Finally she will discuss Mogilev and its Jews, presenting family trees, family archival records, and photos that focus on the Sephardic connection in Mogilev.

Pioneer Jewish genealogy columnist (Jerusalem Post, “It’s All Relative,” 1999-2005) and blogger (“Tracing the Tribe: The Jewish Genealogy Blog,” since 2006) Schelly Talalay Dardashti is the US Genealogy Advisor for MyHeritage.com. Her noted articles have appeared in Avotaynu, NGS Quarterly, The Forward, and Hadassah, among others. She co-administers the IberianAshkenaz DNA Project at FamilyTreeDNA.com, which has successfully confirmed the Sephardic origins of some Eastern European Ashkenazi families.

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Research Help

.12:30 pm – come early to join the following discussion groups:

Ask the Experts – for help with U.S. research
Bessarabia Special Interest Group
Litvak-Baltic Special Interest Group (covers Lithuania, Latvia & Estonia)
Poland Special Interest Group

4:00 pm – meet with the Belarus Special Interest Group

Temple Emanuel
385 Ward Street
Newton, MA

Admission is free for members, $5 for guests.

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Upcoming Events 

Sunday, May 17 at Congregation Beth El-Atereth Israel, Newton, 1:30 pm

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and Annual Meeting

More info

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