· To help confirm the findings of genealogical research into the Dorling surname and family trees. 

· To discover if any of the main branches are related to each other via a common ancestor and if so to estimate how many generations back to the common ancestor. 

· To discover how individuals and other smaller branches of Dorlings fit into the overall Dorling genealogy, either as distinct branches or as part of other Dorling branches.  

· To discover how individuals and other smaller branches with Dorling variant names e.g. Doily, Dorley, Dorland, Doyling, Dawling, Dauling, Dalling, fit into the overall Dorling genealogy, either as distinct branches or as part of other Dorling branches.

 · To provide the potential means of identifying the male ancestry of a branch originating from a female Dorling.