Dardashti, a native New Yorker based in Tel Aviv, focuses on Jewish genealogy as researcher, journalist, blogger, online instructor and international speaker.  For nearly 20 years, she's been tracing the DARDASHTI and TALALAY families across Europe, Asia, the Middle East and the Americas.

She writes Tracing the Tribe - The Jewish Genealogy Blog (since 2006); was the Jerusalem Post genealogy columnist ("It's All Relative," 1999-2005), taught online Jewish genealogy at MyFamily.com, and is co-founder of GenClass.com, offering a multitude of online genealogy classes.  

She is the former three-term president of the five-branched JFRA Israel (member, International Association of of Jewish Genealogical Societies - IAJGS).

Credits: Jerusalem Post, JTA, The Forward, World Jewish Digest, Reform Judaism, Outlook, NGS News, Avotaynu, Stammbaum and other Jewish/general publications. Member:  Association of Professional Genealogists, American Jewish Press Association ISFHWE, IAJGS Strategic Planning Committee.

Saturday 11:30 a.m.  SA-055.  The Iberian Ashkenaz DNA Project:  The Administrator's Viewpoint.  Learn how to develop and build a DNA project. This session covers the nuts and bolts from initial concept, project goal, criteria, encouraging participation, results and what they mean.  [IA]

Saturday 11:30 a.m. SA-042 Blogger Summit Part 2: Now that You’re a Genealogy Blogger. (Cooke, Dardashti, Doyle, MacEntee, Manson).  So you have a blog? Now what? Learn how to make blogging fun with tips from our panel of expert genealogy bloggers. You’ll learn about keeping posts fresh, making blogging beneficial to your genealogy research and possibly profitable   as well, with tips on marketing your blog. [I]