Surname changes Fost, Foss, Foste,Foster,Johanson

[Ann Wilson]

My Grandfather told us when we were little that his father was a spy for the English, I rember his stories and now as an adult and trying to trace our family have found it very difficult to find much. My father has said that great greanfather was in africa during the Boar Wars there and changed his name many times and apon reaching the US they ( GGrandfather and Grandfather)Changed it to Foster. I am wonering how much is actual now and how much was changed so that finding any one related to us would be such a maze I will never find someone who is related.