Has anyone noticed how many so called "septs" have appeared recently. Every week seems to bring a new crop. The Buchanan Society lists about 4 names as officially members of the clan (although a number of others have gracious permission to wear the tartan!) but if you look up other sites it appears every Tom, Dick & Harry can be a sept. I wonder if it is these surname distribution sites and if one happens to be in the rough area a clan once existed it automatically becomes a sept - and, of course, another valuable customer for that particular tartan. By the same token, as I once lived in a Buchanan Drive perhaps I too can now claim allegiance to that clan. Facetious, I know, but I wonder how much more meaningful so many of these claims are?