Quote Originally Posted by campbell View Post
If you cannot trace your ancestry, the custom is to pick one of the Clans that list your surname as a sept. Here is an article that explains the custom:

http://www.electricscotland.com/webc...lies_septs.htm

The Clan Muir/Moore is another Clan that has a lot of sept problems check out the wiki article here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clan_Muir

Good luck.
Being an educator by trade, the very mention of Wikipedia has a tendency to make my eye twitch, but the article about Clan Muir does make the point that it's really more complicated than just "picking one of the clans that list your surname as a sept." Note that the article discusses a number of Clans that the surname Muir is associated with, and the geographic areas where those clans were dominant. Determining where your ancestors were from in Scotland really determines which clan to affiliate with.

T.