Brought to you by The Irish Ancestral Research Association (TIARA):

Virtual

Celtic Connections Conference 2025

Finding Missing Family

Saturday, 5 April 2025

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM Eastern Time

6 AM Pacific, 7 AM Mountain, 8 AM Central

(US and Canada)

Discover expert strategies to reconnect with lost family members in CCC 2025! This year's theme, Finding Missing Family, explores the tools, methodologies, and records to locate relatives separated by history, life circumstances, or other challenges.

The CCC 2025 will be a virtual, live event taking place via Zoom on 5 April 2025 from 9 AM to 5 PM Eastern Time. The conference will include four 50-55 minute presentations followed by an approximately 30-minute live Q&A with the speaker.

The link to the syllabus will be sent with the Zoom link shortly before 5 April 2025. The syllabus is fully downloadable and printable and will be available along with the recordings until 11:59 PM Eastern Time on 31 July 2025.

Conference Schedule

All times are Eastern Time Zone

9-10:30 AM: Fiona Fitzsimons

Suffer the nation: finding women and children in care in Ireland, 1840-1972.

10:30-11 AM: Break

11 AM-12:30 PM: Dr. Maurice Gleeson

Methodology for solving "unknown parentage cases" (from an Irish perspective).

12:30-1:30 PM: Lunch Break

1:30-3 PM: Dr. Penny Walters

From separation to reconnection: psychological and ethical dimensions finding missing family in Ireland's historical context.

3-3:30 PM: Break

3:30-5 PM: John Grenham

Crabwise: indirect research can get you around a dead end.

                                                                             Payment Information

$60 early-bird registration available through 28 February 2025.

$75 regular registration 1 March 2025 through 2 April 2025.

Payment options: Electronically or Check.

Electronically: Click the PayPal button. To pay by debit or credit card, select "Debit or Credit Card" in the PayPal list of options. You do not need a PayPal account to pay online.

Check: Make payable to TIARA-CCC2025 and mail to 121 Boston Post Road, Suite #3, Sudbury, MA 01776. Your registration will be "pending" until the check clears (please allow two full weeks).

For more information and to register, click here.