Quote Originally Posted by Ted Crocker View Post
Ah, but Gilmore, have you considered or pondered if your ancestors, as they were in their time, would accept or not accept you as you are now? Would you have been accepted into their clan by their chief, or would you have been thrown out and rejected... or worse? I think there are other questions beyond the DNA that might be important before you have the "clan crest" tatooed on your back or spend every last penny you have on a kilt in a tartan.
It's irrelevant whether my clan ancestors would accept me. Likely they wouldn't. I am sure I would not accept some of them.

Clans are history. The clan system had been in decline for centuries before they were actively suppressed after the '75 uprising. The past is the past, and immutable. Only schizophrenics and prevaricators hold otherwise. The clans one's ancestors were in may be an interesting relic worthy of conversation (or they may not,) but to actively and knowingly misrepresent things for one's own present day self-aggrandizement is a different kettle of haggis.