Quote Originally Posted by North Cardiff Blue View Post
My uncle started to do our family tree and found out my great great (maybe another great or two) Grandfather was really a Young (different surname to ours) as the original great great Grandfather had been hung for sheep rustling (at least I hope it was that lol) this one moved in and kept our Surname and dropped his own.
Name changes are common. I've got two in my maternal family and my wife has one. I dont think Tuerto will mind me saying that there is one in his FH. That was a devil of a problem to unpick, but we got there in the end, even solving why it had happened.
DNA testing can obviously help here to - the question to ask is if there's a match, but you don't know why, work thru the evidence.

I should add that as well as my 247 close matches, there are thousands of other matches.