G'day all,   I'm John Dawes from Melbourne, Australia, and I've been delving into the family history for some time now. My father (Herbert Charles) was born in Gayton, Norfolk, England, and he migrated with his parents (Frederick and Hannah) and his siblings to Melbourne just before the outbreak of World War 1.   I'm organising a Dawes family reunion here on 18 March next and I've been busy trying to update the Dawes family tree. In the last couple of days I've downloaded the 1851 and 1881 Norfolk censuses from the LDS CDs, from my local genealogy society, and been sifting through the data trying to extrapolate the details of the ancestors. Do you find that the BD&M and census records constantly flip between 'Daws' and 'Dawes'? Either spelling goes it seems!  The other confusing thing is the small choice of first names they chose for their children! How many William, Charles, Benjamin, Francis, Jane, Sarah, Mary Ann, Ann Daw(e)s have you seen? In roughly the same location!? How confusing is it then for later generations of researchers?   To Amy Dawes near Stratford Upon Avon in Warwickshire, did any of your Daw(e)s come from East Anglia? There's a few Francises in my tree. And do you know where any of yours went in Australia? At this stage I don't have any records of mine from Warwickshire. My daughter Karla is also about your age (16) and she's getting interested in the family history, too (her grandfather on her Mum's side was Dutch).     My genealogy homepage is at: http://www.geocities.com/johndawes.geo/   Thanks to Bill Dawes for his very interesting (non trivial) Dawes website at http://www.colorpro.com/wmdawes/lore.html and for creating this Dawes LinkBot discussion list.   Kind regards from another Dawes (John William).