Rachel Unkefer has been a genealogist for 30 years, specializing in German-Jewish immigrants to the United States before 1880. She is the founder of JewishGen’s Early American SIG, administrator of the Bacharach DNA Project, and co-administrator of the Frankfurt Jewish DNA Project and the Suwalki-Lomza Jewish DNA Project. When not doing genealogy research, she writes fiction and runs a nonprofit community writing center in Charlottesville, Virginia.