From
2004 to 2006 Micha and Schelly were the teachers for MyFamily.com's
online Jewish Genealogy classes.
Micha
Reisel
Micha is
an online news industry veteran who currently is founder and president
of Toldot Publishers, www.toldot.net, which helps genealogists publish
their Jewish family histories, either on the net, or as a book.
Micha Reisel has been working on his own family tree since 1985 and
is the family genealogist of both his paternal and maternal lines. He
now has 924 people in his family tree from Belarus, Lithuania, Germany
and Holland dating back to 1720. An expert in internet programs, Micha
focuses on finding resources on Jewish genealogy for genealogy researchers.
His family tree is at http://family.toldot.net.
Micha is vice president of the Jewish Family Research Association Israel
(JFRA Israel), where he has given presentations and workshops. He recently
led a group of seven volunteers who transliterated (Hebrew to English)
nearly 90,000 burials in two Israeli cemeteries in Petach Tikva and
Netanya, and a project to make Holocaust information about 21 Lithuanian
shtetls available on JewishGen in English.
Schelly
Talalay Dardashti
A native
New Yorker, now living in Israel, Schelly is a freelance journalist
specializing in Jewish genealogy, travel and food, and has been researching
her Ashkenazic and Sephardic family trees since 1989. Her tree and her
husband's tree cover Belarus, Russia, Lithuania, Ukraine, Spain and
Iran, with some 1,400 names on each main tree, dating to about 1730.
Schelly writes the only Jewish genealogy blog, Tracing the Tribe, http://tracingthetribe.blogspot.com,
in conjunction with the Jewish Telegraphic Agency (www.jta.org), and
was formerly the Jewish genealogy columnist ("It's All Relative")
for the Jerusalem Post. She writes for the JTA, The Forward, and other
papers and magazines, covering community histories, personalities, family
reconnections, new resources and projects, events and new publications.
She is a member of the American Jewish Press Association and the Association
of Professional Genealogists.
She taught online Jewish genealogy classes for MyFamily.com for several
years, and lectures frequently in Israel, internationally and at conferences.
She is the multi-term president of JFRA Israel, an active member of
the Belarus SIG and the Sephardic Forum on JewishGen.
COMMENTS
from Micha and Schelly’s former students:
- "Thank you so much for your quick response and the great leads.
"
- "Thanks for confirming and extending my information. This alone
has been worth the cost of the class. And since I am learning a great
deal from such wonderful and professional teachers as you are, Schelly
and Micha, I want to continue! Thank you!"
- "Schelly and Micha, I just finished reading Lesson 5. It was
marvelous. There was so much information that was new to me. I couldn't
put it down. I want to read more about these topics now. What a wonderful
course this has been so far.
- "As this was my first internet-based course, I was also waiting
to see how things went. I have been completely satisfied with my experience.
I have learned from the lessons. Micha and Schelly have been very responsive.
I
couldn't be more satisfied."
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