Changing last name to continue grandpa that I never mets name?

Question

Right after my husbands father was born his fathers dad died . So my father nlaw never new his bilogical father he was the only grandson for his fathers side of the family . Well when he died and he was a few years old his mother (husbands grandmother) got with another man and took my father n laws last name and changed it to the new mans last name she got with (so the only living grandson to carry my husbands grandfathers last name was changed ) and it killed the parents of this child to know his only living son carried another mans name they took him away and wouldnt let him see them and brain washed him into thinking that this side of the famil wanted nothing to do with him.my husband had a dream and it was his grand father coming to him crying with a white buttton up shirt on . Went and saw his grandfathers grave for the first time had a picture on it with him in a white button up shirt. My husband is thinking about changing his last name to pay tribute to the man that had his name

stripped from him over 40 years ago but as his aunt from this family that he hasnt hardly ever seen that if he does this he better be ready to have a lot of people deny him and and mad at him and possibly hurt but he thinks that dream meant something because it happened right after we had our first son. My husband needs help he is not sure what is the right thing to do.

I might add that both sides of this family they are country families that hold alot of value in last names and they have alot of old timey beliefs.

And no im really not sure what he should do this is the reason why im asking so i can help him with the decision

Answer 1

If you can afford to waste money to legally change a last name, and all the trouble that goes with it for a man who has been dead for decades and most likely for a family that is also dead for decades, then go right ahead.

Dreams are simply representations of stuff we are trying to understand or work out. The dream that your husband had isn't about his grandfather. His grandfather simply represents something in your husbands daily life. And honey, men in that generation didn't wear anything but white button up shirts, its not significant.

Answer 2

err no?? a dream is a dream. besides surely theres more important things than carrying on an old family name? like having a happy healthy family? this sounds like a really bad idea and the fact that you'd ask yahoo answers just shows that you're not convinced of the idea either...