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Updates on the progress of the "Blennerhassett Challenge" genealogy competition, to see if anyone wins the € 2,000 reward.


Competition launched May 2008.



1st prize: 4 of these.



Multiple interim prizes of these.



Friday, 3 July 2009


This competition is now the no.1 hit in a Google search for:


Grand Prize now € 2,000

Pat Almond, to encourage new findings on the Cashels and Cashells who are his ancestors, has offered to top up the original prize money (of € 1,000) with an extra 500 Canadian dollars. See how much this is worth in euro.

I now undertake to add whatever it takes to that to top the total up to € 2,000.

See how much € 2,000 is in dollars and sterling and Canadian dollars and Australian dollars.


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.
See full size.

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


Coverage
  1. Item in Irish Roots magazine, 3rd qr, 2008.

  2. Item in Irish Family History blog.

  3. Item in Ancestors magazine, July 2008 issue.

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

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.

€ 2,000 grand prize winner: 0.


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