Micha is an online news industry veteran who currently is founder and president of Toldot Publishers, www.toldot.net, which helps genealogists publish their Jewish family histories, either on the net, or as a book.

Micha Reisel has been working on his own family tree since 1985 and is the family genealogist of both his paternal and maternal lines. He now has 924 people in his family tree from Belarus, Lithuania, Germany and Holland dating back to 1720. An expert in internet programs, Micha focuses on finding resources on Jewish genealogy for genealogy researchers. His family tree is at http://family.toldot.net.

Micha is vice president of the Jewish Family Research Association Israel (JFRA Israel), where he has given presentations and workshops. He recently led a group of seven volunteers who transliterated (Hebrew to English) nearly 90,000 burials in two Israeli cemeteries in Petach Tikva and Netanya, and a project to make Holocaust information about 21 Lithuanian shtetls available on JewishGen in English.