1. Identify the ancestral origins of persons bearing the various forms of the Bodiford surname.

2. Determine, if possible, if all North American Bodifords are descended from a single immigrant or from multiple immigrants.

3. Help participants establish that their variation of the Bodiford surname is only a change in spelling and not a different family line.

4. Help participants establish to which Bodiford line they belong when paper records are incomplete.

5. Break through brickwalls.