Croston Family History Newsletter

It’s taken a while for me to start this blog because there’s so much information I’ve gathered that it's hard to know where to begin. I decided just to jump in and write about what I know about the family and the stories I've uncovered. Eventually, I’ll launch a Croston Family History website which will contain family trees and other facts. My hope is that this blog will make what might otherwise seem like a list of names and dates come to life. I became interested in researching my family history around 2008 when my father gave me boxes of research materials to digitize. My stepmother Ann researched my paternal family tree in the 1980s. Her work has been invaluable as she wrote letters and spent many hours in the archives. Some of this information would have been otherwise lost to time. Before Ann began her research, our family didn’t know much about our history. Our ancestors came from County, Cork Ireland to Bradford, Massachusetts where they worked in the shoe factori