Both my parent were Scots, I was started there but born here. No clan on dads side at all, so I wear Buchanan from mums. I did have a Royal Stewart as a 4YO though.

Re: losing your heritage; I have a very unusual last name, every now and then I'll get an email from someone with the same name somewhere on this planet simply cause they've never met another one either. Quite a few months back I got an email from a guy in British Columbia who shares my surname, they'd been in Canada for 4 generations and didn't know whether the name was Scots or English. With a couple of names supplied by him, my wife handed him the whole family tree for the last 100 years+, confirming exactly where his family came from(Midlothian) etc. He is a distant cousin. I think we scared him though as he hasn't sent me an email since. For me he did solve the existance of a family link in New Zealand though.

Al