-   The Blennerhassett Challenge - Competition blog

Updates on the progress of the "Blennerhassett Challenge" genealogy competition, to see if anyone wins the     Reward of € 1,000  


Competition launched May 2008.



1st prize: Two of these.



Multiple interim prizes of these.



Friday, 18 July 2008


First interim prize awarded, June 2008


The first € 100 prize for an interim solution has been awarded to Eily Moylan for fleshing out the family of George Cashel and his connection with Kickham.

I'm happy to hand out multiple € 100 interim prizes. An interim solution would be, say, something like finding George Cashel's baptism. Can anyone find it?


Kickham tree now online. New details about George Cashel. New images.


"Slievenamon" by Charles Joseph Kickham.
Sung by Maureen Hegarty.
Click to play video. See full size.

Forthcoming coverage
  1. Item will appear in Oct 2008 issue of newsletter of Glasgow and West of Scotland Family History Society.

  2. Item will appear in Irish Roots magazine, Sept 2008 issue.


Coverage
  1. Item in Irish Family History blog.

  2. Item in Ancestors magazine, July 2008 issue.

  3. Item in newsletter of Institute of Heraldic and Genealogical Studies, summer 2008.

Prize money increased, May 2008

Pat Almond, to encourage new findings on the Cashels and Cashells who are his ancestors, will top up the prize money with an extra 500 Canadian dollars to the winner! So using current exchange rates:

1st prize is now about    € 1,300    =    £ 1,050    =    $ 2,050 


Competition launch, May 2008

New images from Bill Jehan

New images


Blennerhassett Cashel,
my possible gateway ancestor.



Ballyseedy, Co.Kerry.
Main seat of the Blennerhassetts.
See full size.



Carlow railway station.
Where George Blennerhassett Cashel died in 1882.
See full size.



This note in the BLENNERHASSETT entry in [Burkes Irish, 1976] first made me realise in 1985 that Blennerhassett is a gateway to the World family tree.




Summary

€ 100 interim prize winners: 1

€ 1000 grand prize winner: not yet


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