This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/TeC.2ACE/1144.2 Message Board Post: I am researching the Camerons in my family and have looked at the history of Scotland. It seems that there surnames changed in the early times depending on who they worked for, if they worked for the Cameron Chief they took the last name, if they moved off to the MacDoncald estate they took that last name. Very confusing, and very hard to find out who they really were.