I hope this doesn't bore anyone.... but I suppose I should send something for the CHALLENGE... My name is Dice and my family has resided in the Syracuse area since (at least) around the end of the Civil War. The earliest documentation I have is from Surrogate papers from my gggrandfather in Onondaga County in 1868. Beyond that I have not been able to establish any definite links. I do know that a Dice family started the Schoharie County area before the Revolutionary war but I cannot tie back to them. Those Dices' were Loyalists and did go Canada but at least two returned to the 'States' after the war. Also, I cannot tie to the Dice families in PA and GA. My dad knows VERY little about the family, i.e. grandparents, aunts uncles etc. Of course it doesn't help that my grandfather and his sisters had a family feud when their father died. My grandfather even (unofficially) changed the name to Dyce. There are books from school that belonged to my dad's (older) sisters and brothers that have the last name spelled that way. My dad discovered the name 'change' when he was an older teenager and needed a copy of his birth certificate. The clerk was sharp enough to check alternate spellings of the name. My grandfather's mother's name was Hanna/Anna Hall, b. 1857. From what I can figure, she and her parents came to the US around 1869. Her parents were Samuel Hall and Sarah Thompson married 5/21/1845 in Killeeshill, Co Tyrone, N. Ireland. All three supposedly were both in 'England', however the 'England' reference may be more one of a political nature than a instead of a geographical one. Both my Dice ggandparents are buried in a cemetery in Syracuse along with my dad's uncle who fell off a train near Norwich, NY. He DID work on the railroad. My dad had no idea they where they were buried. Enough for now !!!!