Quote Originally Posted by sharpdressedscot View Post
So, what you're saying is, even if you have descent and heritage you can't be in a clan unless you're a real Scot?

Dude...
Had a scottish clan member migrated to north america, and had a son. Then no that son would not be a member of that clan. It is not neccassarily because he is american. It is because he is not in scotland living in the clan system.

You well know that the clan system was a balanced society where clan membership balanced on what you could do/owed your clan chief. It was not considered on some notion of bloodlines, descent and surnames. You were in a clan if you could offer that clan something or if you were born into through another clan system.

I doubt clan chiefs considered americans and canadians born hundreds of years into the future as part of their clan. It is silly to assume that there were complex rules on membership, A highland clan was not a golf club, it was a highland clan.

as I have said before clan societies are now clubs for people with last names, and I personally believe the vast majority of septs claiming to belong to a clan to be bollocks.