This Saturday, 11 May 2024
9:00 am — 10:00 am EDT: Education Talk
Back to Basics: Immigration and Emigration Presenter: Ken McKinlay.
10:00 am – 11:30 am EDT: Feature Talk
My Farrell Brick Wall and New Cousins: From Inchigeelagh, Cork to Holytown, Scotland and St Andrew’s West, Ontario – Presenters: Helen O’Farrell Sloan and Dena Palamedes
This is a story of how patience, persistence and DNA can crumble a brick wall and reveal a new family.
Dena’s third great-grandfather, Thomas O’Farrell, was not to be found after 1851. His origins and ultimate outcome were unknown, a proverbial brick wall. Eight years after Dena’s family first started DNA testing, they found a match only an hour from home in Kemptville, Ontario, and the brick wall crumbled. This is the story of how two families reconnected and the search to find out more about Thomas’ two brothers.
Join in-person in Geneva Hall at Knox Presbyterian Church, 120 Lisgar St. on the corner of Elgin St, or online by registering here.