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Welcome to MY Family Historian web site
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MISSION STATEMENT: To share genealogical information in the hopes of making other members of my family as obsessed with the lives of our
ancestors as I have become.
So, if you'd like to know a little bit more about your Aller, Apgar, Berry, Carpenter, Crowley, Doherty, Donnelly, Dwire, Greene, Hann,
Hoffman, McFadden, Morrissey, Jordon, Strouble, or Sweeney ancestors (just to name a few of my ancestors), you have come to the right place.
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Carpenter / Crowley Histories
Family Photos
Family Records
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Additional Histories
Families of friends and others used in researching my family
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Some day my time will come ...
(sung to the tune of "Someday My Prince Will Come" from Disney's Snow White)
Again, I need to apologize for my neglect.
Between work, parenting and my trustee responsibilities for the Apgar Family Association, I have had no time to work on my own family tree.
Who would think that commuting 10 - 12 hours a week, helping a young man get through college and all the stuff I do for the Apgar Family assoc.
(like digitizing over 2500 pages, turning them into sellable CDs and reformatting all that information so it can be presented on their site just to name a few of the things I've accomplished over the past four years)
would consume that much time (LOL).
Anyway, I do forsee that I will have time for my family research in the not too distant future, at least sometime in the next four years.
Just as soon as deploy a content management product, store front, membership application . . . You get the drift. Long story short, I'll do updates when I can.
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 Apgars site retired
As the Technology Coordinator/Webmaster for the Apgar Family Association,
I have just deployed a significantly expanded family tree on Association's web-site:
History of the Apgar Family in America.
This content is significantly more accurate and complete than what I had presented here. So the retirment at this time makes sense.
In the spirit of full disclosure, I need to mention that access to this content is limited to members of the Apgar Family Association. BUT...
The cost of membership for Apgar cousins is nominal. And even if you're not an Apgar, there is a Research membership available for only $20 a year.
So if you are interested in Apgars, or one of the many other early families of Hunterdon County, NJ into which they married, a subscription might be worth your while.
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Ancestor of the Month:
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Ancestor of the Month -- Hall of Fame
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Leon A. Carpenter, Jr.
Jun 1915 -
Jun 1963
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Although his life was short, dying just after his 48th birthday, he left quite a legacy for his family and his descendants.
A well-respected newspaper man.
The 1st Rugters graduate in the family, at least to the best of my knowledge, making myself a third-generation alumni.
And a love of sports, which he shared with his children by taking them to their very first Rutgers's football game at the tender age of six. Such a momentus
occasion that it warrented, not one, but two articles in the local paper:
"Tommy and Muffy Go Collegiate" and
"Why Didn't It Count, Daddy?"
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While tracking Rutgers football is mostly a past-time for those Rutgers alumni that remain in New Jersey, the Scarlett Knights' fabulous 2006 season has
certainly piqued the interest of a much broader audience. And while the score of their final game against West Virginia was not what we hoped, it was still a
great game; one for which I am still hoarse from cheering them on at home as I watched the game on TV.
Had it not been for my grandfather’s attendance at Rutgers and sustained interest in Rutgers football, I have to wonder if I still would have attended
and if not, I certainly wouldn’t still be following the Scarlet Knights. So while I didn’t really know my grandfather, being only a few years old when he
died, I can certainly acknowledge his contribution to my life, and that of my father, who also went to Rutgers and has been a regular at Rutger's home
football games for over 60 years now.
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September 2011 Update:
With the enrollment of my nephew into Rutgers a few years back, and the anticipated transfer of my son to Rutgers next year,
four generations of Carpenters have or will have attended Rutgers. What a legacy, which hasn't gone unnoticed.
The Rutgers University Alumni Association has voted to honor our family with the Rutgers Legacy Award, to be presented to my father at a reception in mid-October.
Dad will also be presented with a Scarlet Oak Meritorious Service award to honor his volunteer service to Rutgers. Go Dad!!
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May we live in peace without weeping.
May our joy outline the lives we touch without ceasing.
And may our love fill the world, angel wings tenderly beating.
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