Remember the Women! Heading up the Branches of our Women's Family Tree, Part 3 - Voolich, Erica Dakin
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All of these women were the great great grandmothers of the author. Born in the first half of the 1800s, over a 34 years range and died over a 74 year range, they had many different life experiences. Some experienced the Civil War, others were born early enough to have family who fought in the Revolutionary War while another lived to see her grandsons fight in World War I. Some families had ancestors who fought on each side of the Revolution or came from abroad. Others had family who fought in the Civil War; one with sons on each side. They immigrated or migrated or stayed put on the farm. One…mehr

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All of these women were the great great grandmothers of the author. Born in the first half of the 1800s, over a 34 years range and died over a 74 year range, they had many different life experiences. Some experienced the Civil War, others were born early enough to have family who fought in the Revolutionary War while another lived to see her grandsons fight in World War I. Some families had ancestors who fought on each side of the Revolution or came from abroad. Others had family who fought in the Civil War; one with sons on each side. They immigrated or migrated or stayed put on the farm. One came on one of the "coffin ships" from Ireland during the Great Hunger" in 1848. One was corresponding about slavery with her cousins. Another family came to Chicago from Canada after the Great Fire to help rebuild. One's husband was involved in the re-building of the Chicago Board of Trade building after the Fire. The families ran small businesses, took in apprentices in the tannery, or farmed the land. Three died young leaving children, one leaving orphaned children. The others raised their children while they ran the farm. One was working on the farm for many years, but participating in book clubs and loved to read and write poems. One even attended Mt Holyoke College in 1844-1845, possibly with the support of her older brother who was a businessman. These women were living the variations on the American story.
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Erica Dakin Voolich is a former award winning mathematics teacher who has transitioned from using her problem solving skills in her mathematics class to solving her family history problems. She is the founder and current president of the Somerville Mathematics Fund, a grassroots charity celebrating and encouraging mathematics achievement in Somerville, MA. Erica has authored two books on high harness weaving along with two mathematics supplementary texts on solid geometry and mathematics history for middle school students. She has run weaving and mathematics workshops in local, regional, national and international conferences, and more recently a couple of genealogy workshops and is a geneablogger. Over the decades she worked on her family history on a part time basis while teaching and raising her family. Finding the letters from her great great grandfather's Swedish family when she was her grandmother's executor in 1974, sparked her interest in finding out about Eric Helsten, but it took thirty years to get all of the letters translated. This book is her seventh book on her family history - it is her third focusing on tracing her maternal family history, with a focus on her great great grandmothers