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This fall, 2010, we will meet at the Doubletree Hotel, Westborough, MA on September 17th and 18th.

• The reunion will begin on Friday afternoon with a guided bus tour of sites in the Westborough area of interest to Edmund Rice's descendants and with emphasis on the ancestral homes of Rices who went to Nova Scotia in 1760. 
• On Friday evening we will have dinner at the hotel. 
• On Saturday morning we will have a social time and presentations about current association research. Mike Rice will discuss his Wikipedia article about Edmund Rice and his descndants. Tim Sanford will speak on the descendants of Edmund Rice who emigrated to Nova Scotia in 1760. There will also be time to search the association database for your Rice ancestors. 
• After lunch we will have a guest speaker and our annual association meeting. Dr. John Lund, Adjunct Professor of History, Keene State College, will talk about the legal system in colonial New England. 
• There will also be time for visits to the Edmund Rice memorials in Sudbury/Wayland. 
• Program and registration information will be mailed to members and will be available on these pages in early August. 
• We have negotiated a favorable rate for overnight accommodations at the hotel. 
• Mark your calendars and plan to join us.

• maintaining and updating a computer database of the descendants of Edmund Rice by encouraging living cousins to submit their family information and by adding evidence from vital records, other primary sources, and US and Canadian census records. Readers may view the first six generations of that database on these pages. The first nine generations of the database is available on CD in the same format as the six generation database to association members.
• sponsoring a patrilineal database of the Rice surname based on the YDNA tests of males by the name of Rice. This effort has been invaluable in distinguishing the descendants of Edmund Rice from Robert Royce of Connecticut and documenting the Massachusetts ancestry of William March Rice, founder of Rice University. We are now helping Rices who trace their ancestry to Virginia and North Carolina to share their efforts to trace their ancestry further back in time.
• sponsoring a matrilineal database of descendants of early colonial females of Massachusetts based on mtDNA. This new effort was tested using the mtDNA and conventional genealogy of two of our association officers whose matrilineal lines converge on Martha, wife of John Bent in the early 1600s.

Membership in the Edmund Rice (1638) Association is open to all who share our interest in Edmund Rice, his origins, and his descendants. Proof of descent from Edmund Rice is not a condition of membership. Your membership encourages the volunteers who organize our reunions and manage the special activities of our association. Want to know more about us? Check out our web pages listed on the menu side bar on the left of these pages.