I brought back my family not too long ago. I think it should be handled with the utmost care. I personally enjoy rping so I rped my way. However, I did not go the same realm I grew up in I actually preferred to fight against them. Seeing it from a different perspective opens one eyes. Sure some people knew my character's family name others did not.
Never recreate character names granted I did one but I forgot to put the II on his name to distinguish him. Still working on getting that changed... granted some of them share the same alcoholic tendencies. I have played them of as children or relatives of the fromer 3 brothers I created.