Hi All, this is my first post, I hope I posted it in the right place and I'll try to make it readable.

In my family it has always been believed that we descended from the Highland Clan Shaw of the Chattan Confederation.
We didn't have solid proof, but its always what people said, my grandparents, and uncles, it was somehow just something the family knew and talked about.
We had done our genealogy as far as we could and we had hit a wall in the early 1700s and couldn't actually make the connection to Scotland,
but we were still certain that we were Scottish.
So over the years we have bought lots of Clan Shaw items to have, like my kilt and brooch, cups, and lots of other things. We went to the 46th New Hampshire Highland Games
and I joined the Clan Shaw Society, and had a certain amount of pride at the calling of the clans, it was fun.
Then for my 10th anniversary my wife got me the best subscription to Ancestry.com, with all the international information, military records, and newspaper articles (The newspaper is what made the difference). So, with this I was able to find just one tiny bit of information that connected me to a landslide of more family information. I was able to get all the way to Scotland.......
And as it turns out I'm a Shaw alright, but from the Lowland Clan Schaw of Sauchie. Who have no arms bearer and have been defunct for years and years. So now I'm here with all this stuff, and I feel like a charlatan.


All that said, here is my real questions. I have tried to do as much research on it as I can but there seems to be very little information on it, why is the clan tartan for Clan Schaw the very same as the Highland Clan Shaw? Everywhere I look it says that these two clans "have no connection to each other", yet they have the same tartan? The 2 clans lived at least probably 2 or 3 days away from each other or more? (Idk, not an expert) I don't see how or why they would have the same anything? Is there any obscure place I might find some information on this? Or is this a dead end and I should just accept it and move on?
Also... how often does an armigerous clan get a new chief? Probably wishful thinking huh?


Well, That's my sad story, thanks for listening.