Slides from Adam Brown’s talk to the Jewish Genealogical Society of Los Angeles on August 29, 2021:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FgFQ-sk9YBQCyJ_yeXwL30JDHFiv6-xm/view?usp=sharing
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Slides from Adam Brown’s talk to the Jewish Genealogical Society of Los Angeles on August 29, 2021:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FgFQ-sk9YBQCyJ_yeXwL30JDHFiv6-xm/view?usp=sharing
Adam Brown is the founder and director of the Avotaynu DNA Project, an academic multi-disciplinary study of the origins and migrations of the Jewish people with over 8,000 participants.
Adam has worked extensively in all major online genealogical platforms - including Ancestry, MyHeritage, Geni, and WikiTree - 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.
By profession, Adam is a lawyer and strategic planner, is a graduate of the University of Michigan and the University of Chicago Law School, and serves on numerous municipal, scientific research, and academic non-profit boards and commissions. In his home community of Englewood, NJ, has served on the City's Budget Commission, its Board of Adjustment, and various other boards and commissions.
He has researched his family’s Jewish origins for over three decades. His numerous groundbreaking lectures and articles were presented at IAJGS conferences and on the pages of our sister publication, AVOTAYNU. He was the Co-Chair of the planned 2017 Annual Conference of the International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies (IAJGS) in Orlando.
Adam has worked two seasons as an IT/telecommunications specialist at a remote field camp deep in the interior of Antarctica. He returned to the region during March-April 2016 as part of a multi-national scientific expedition that traveled 5,800 miles by sea to and from ice-covered yet volcanic Heard Island, a rarely visited pristine habitat in the stormy Southern Indian Ocean halfway between Australia and South Africa.
Adam lives seasonally in Englewood NJ and on Martha's Vineyard Island.