Virtual Conference

There are plenty of opportunities for virtual education while we are "staying at home." Dick and I will be attending the National Genealogy Society's virtual opening day next week. We have also signed up for 45 classes that we can view between July 2020 and May 2021. These classes replace the four-day national conference that we had planned to attend in Salt Lake City this month.

Those of you with Irish heritage might be interested in the following notice that appeared in Eastmans Newsletter today.

Here is a message from the Celtic Connections web site at http://celtic-connections.org:

For health and safety reasons we have cancelled the fourth biennial Celtic Connections Conference. The cancellation presents a detour in our “Journey Home.”

However we know that you want to further your education, so we are investigating ways to provide this conference electronically. If our investigations are successful, our journey home will become a virtual experience.

What will this new reality look like? At a minimum, there will be:

• On-demand presentations: Pre-recorded talks by many of the CCC ’20 presenters will be available to view online between July 31 and August 31.
• Live chats: During this time period there will be moderated chats for presenters and participants to exchange information around various tracks or topics.
• Electronic syllabus: We will provide an online version of the conference syllabus.

As you continue to practice social distancing, watch our Celtic Connections Conference website for updates on the virtual “Journey Home” at http://celtic-connections.org/.