IAJGS 2016 Speaker Profile: Adam Brown

Adam R. Brown is the Managing Editor of Avotaynu Online and administers the collaborative Avotaynu DNA Project with several thousand participants.

Adam has worked extensively in all major online genealogical platforms and as a volunteer Geni curator has helped countless users develop their own collaborative online projects focused on Ashkenazi and Sephardi families and their communities.

He has written and lectured extensively on genealogical topics relating to online collaboration, DNA, and technology.

Worldwide DNA Survey of Sephardi/Mizrahi Jews” (Thurs-133), 1:30-2:45 P.M.

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Even after 15 years of intensive Jewish genetic testing, the Sephardi and Mizrahi component of our Jewish genetic heritage is largely unknown. A collaboration of leading geneticists, historians, DNA project administrators, genealogical organizations, and Sephardi cultural institutions is working toward a worldwide Y and autosomal DNA survey of Sephardi and Mizrahi Jews.

Project coordinator Adam Brown will moderate a discussion among key participants in the project who will outline its progress and ambitions. In conjunction with the project, volunteers will not only undertake a DNA survey of Seattle’s Sephardi population during the conference, but also within and beyond the conference venue.

[Panel discussion with Schelly Talalay Dardashti and Bennett Greenspan]

Category: Beginning genealogists 

Topics: Ashkenazic research, DNA research and genetics, Jews of the Southwest United States, Mizrachi research,  Rabbinic research, Sephardic research, Technology in support of genealogical research, Anusim