Dr. Adina Newman, EdD grew up listening to stories about her own ancestors and developed a keen interest in all things history and tradition. Her Ashkenazi Jewish family primarily settled in Massachusetts and Maine in the late 19th and early 20th century, which has allowed her to develop the necessary skills to research New England as well as how to locate pertinent immigration records. She also regularly researches her own family back to Eastern Europe, including to modern day Lithuania, Latvia, Belarus, Ukraine, and Estonia, and has journeyed through her own family records around the world.

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​The creator of My Family Genie, she is a professional genealogist and educator. Her specialties include Jewish genealogy, genetic genealogy, social media, and New England, and she presents on these topics in a variety of venues, from major genealogy conferences to local genealogy societies.

Her findings have received international media attention, such as mentions in The Daily Mail, Washington Post, AP News, TODAY, Us Weekly, People, and The Times of Israel, and she has made appearances on several news outlets such as NPR and I24NEWS.

She co-founded the Holocaust Reunion Project, a program to raise awareness about the potential of DNA testing within the Holocaust survivor community and provide survivors and their children with free commercial DNA tests and consultations. She volunteers as a Team Lead for the DNA Doe Project, which uses investigative genetic genealogy to identify unidentified deceased persons and as a moderator for a popular Jewish genetic genealogy Facebook grou

She is also a 2020 AncestryProGenealogists Scholarship winner and alumna and former co-chat leader in ProGen 50.

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