Yes the family trees are very interesting, POGS. There were 47 people on ours we'd never heard of.
Finders had taken two years to 'find' my two brothers and me because my paternal grandfather had abandoned his wife and child when my father was only three so he was brought up by his stepfather. When he joined the RAF at the beginning of the war Dad had his surname changed by deed poll as a tribute to the man who, although deceased by this time, had done so much for him.
It only came to light because at the time Finders were looking for us I'd applied for POA for my mother. My father's change of name cropped up in the application.
When I received the letter I nearly binned it because I was wary of it being a scam but when I read, 'Are you the daughter of ………. formerly...……' I realised it had to be genuine because hardly anyone knew of Dad's birth name.
The first words the woman said, when I phoned the number, was 'AT LAST!!'