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When Marion Dakin died in 1974, a bundle of letters was found in her desk -- all in Swedish. Years before she died Marion had given her granddaughter "old family rings" to use for her wedding -- one came from Eric Helsten, or so she thought. Her grandfather Eric Helsten was a tanner who immigrated from Sweden in 1845, initially settling in Haviland Hollow NY and then in Gaylordsville CT. He married another immigrant, Mary Hearty, who came from Ireland in 1848. These letters are from Eric's mother and twelve siblings dating from 1845 until he died in 1903. This is the story of Eric and Mary's life, in the US with the accompanying story of life back home as told through these 86 letters and documents. Included are two chapters with genealogical information on Eric Helsten's maternal and paternal ancestors in Sweden -- including Swedish family names of Alfvars, Bouvin, Chevet, Dandanell, Dubois, Gilljam, Hellsten, Hultman, Krutmeijer, Martin, Österman, Pousette, Robbert,Tillman, Tussin.

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