* To confirm that all 7 branches of the Lickfold family are related.

* To confirm that all male Lickfolds alive today descend from people who lived at the hamlet of Lickfold in Sussex in the 1100s.

* To ascertain the likelihood that all male Lickfolds alive today have just one common ancestor.

* To discover clues regarding the origin of the surname.

* To discover information about our distant origins - eg whether our forebears were Anglo-Saxon settlers in the south of England in the dark / middle ages.

* To discover information which may solve research problems, and/or resolve brick walls where documentation about "who begat who" is either unclear or non-existent.

* To confirm suspected events, such as illegitimacy and adoption.

* To find any mistaken connections in the Lickfold family trees.

* To bridge gaps in the paper records.

* To confirm surname variants and possibly find previously unknown variants.

* To preserve DNA results for future research, to protect against any male line becoming extinct.

* And, in general, to validate the family history research that has been carried out so far.