8 Mar 2023, Wednesday

 8 Mar 2023, Wednesday

Prioritized Daily Task

1:00 PM - Appointment at Lehi Family History center to move Family Search data into Find My Path - Sister Mary Jo Young, Instructor at the center

6:30 PM - Relief Society Birthday Party

Note:  Information copied from my journal for Mary Jo Young, Family History Center in Lehi: Dec. 10, 2009 I went to Dublin, Ireland.  I stayed at the Maldron Hotel, it is now the Clayton Hotel Cardiff Lane.  I stayed in room 406.  The hotel was located on Said Ui Maricin Road (R813) across the Liffy River from the Convention Centre.   I got acquainted with Jimmy Carrol one of the owners.  He sold the land to the hotel company and has a penthouse with his own private elevator.  His main home is on a farm in Delgany about 25 miles from Dublin.  His wife's name is Miriam and they have 7 children.  I did some genealogy research while I was here.   I went to several locations and found something very interesting in the Register of Deed Office on Henrietta St, Dublin.  Looking through their rolls of index film I found Robert (McColpin) McAlpin and wife, Janet, selling land to McKell on December 2, 1728.  The property was located just outside the city gate of Belfast on Mill Street.  The property backed up to Mill Creek and was next to a tannery John McAlpin owned.  I think John and Robert were brothers and the tannery was first owned by their father, John McColpin.  At this time I do not have a primary source connecting Robert and Janet McAlpin to my 3rd g grandfather, Alexander McAlpin.   I attended Church on Sunday.  There are two ward buildings in Dublin, the stake center in Glasnevin and the other Finglas Ward.  I attended the nearest in Glasnevin.  The bishop's name was Bishop Green.  He is a native Irish. I also talked or met Sister Burk who works in the mission office and is from Boise, Idaho, Elder and Sister Burten were from Island Park, ID.  The one that was the most interesting was Sister Catherine Lamb.  She was the ward genealogist and worked at the Stake Family History Center.  She and her husband are converts from the Catholic faith.  He drives a bus and they were married in the temple and have 3 children.  I told her about my problem connecting Alexander McAlpin in America who came from Ireland to Robert McAlpin (McColpin) who I found living in Belfast with his wife Janet.  She asked me if I knew the names and birth order of Alexander McAlpin's children.  I shared with her that Alexander's oldest son was Robert and he had 4 daughters, Janet, Elizabeth Barbary, Sarah Mary and Sarah Temple McColpin.   The youngest son, William Alexander McColpin, was my 2nd g grandfather.  Robert Alexander McAlpin, my grandfather, was the oldest son.  Sister Lamb told me about an early Irish Law called Brecon Law.  It was never written down but was binding as if it were chiseled in stone.  A man would name his first son after his father and his daughter after his mother.   Even if his father was not honorable and a disgrace he would still name his son after him but he may take his wife's family name and he and his son be known by his wife's family name from then on.   

Debbie and Karlene left to go to the Legacy Center for water aerobics.  I got up later, had prayer showered, and shaved.  Joe L and I ate breakfast Debbie prepared before she and Karlene left.  When they got home Debbie and I had prayer.  Joe L. and I watched some more of the TV series, The Ottoman.  At noon Debbie, Kerlene, and Joe L. went to Zupus for lunch.  I followed in the Land Rover that I had parked at Glenn and Wendy Smiths'.  The line was lone at Zupus so I left and drove to the Family History Center in Lehi near Thanksgiving Point.  I met with Sister Mary Joe Young before her class she teaches on genealogy.  When she had to leave to set up I called Blue Rock Medical.  They do not have an approval from the insurance company for the procedure on my T-12 Vértebra.  Matthew called and invited me and Debbie to Madeline's competition in Orlando, FL and then to go on a cruise with them.  From there go and visit Dan and Ora.  From there to Georgia to work on getting A&M Investments divided with the 40 acres in Cleveland between the Morris, Abercrombie, and us around May 5 to May 16th.  I met Mary Jo Yount, worked on genealogy and attended her class on basic Family Search.  I came home when the library closed about 5 PM.  Debbie had dinner ready, we ate, and went to Mcory basketball game; his dad, Nick, was the coach.  Debbie and I set with Joe L. Karlene, and Kelsie, Mcory's mother.  We came home, studied scriptures, had prayer, and went to bed.