Quote Originally Posted by Nick the DSM View Post
It all belongs to the same clan anyways, right? Well, I won't say for every clan or sept, but speaking for my own experience my family is a Gillmore, which is a "sept" of Morrison. I'll happily wear Morrison tartans and not be bothered with it. Don't need to invent a Gilmore tartan.

I think septs were created to help distinguish what names go with whatever clan. That's what I can figure any how. Also a marketing ploy, but I'm not going to get into that. Maybe it's to put a connection to whatever clan they are branched off of? I'm not saying people look for legitimacy but a grasp on clan connection...maybe?
But to add to the confusion the Morrison's of Perthshire are specifically mentioned as a sept of the Clan Buchanan. But how a Morrison family living here in the USA for, say, 200 years is supposed to know his family came from Perthshire I'll never know. So I just send all the Morrisons over to the Clan Morrison tent.