Greetings all,

I am not quite sure if this is the right forum for this but it is the only one that looks close. I assuse you that this does relate to Scottish clans/heritage. I am an amateaur genealogist, as many of you probably are, and I have come across an interesting knot in my family tree.
There was a female who apparently had a bastard daughter prior to her marriage. There is no data regarding the father of the bastard and all family trees I have found for the various families just treat the child as being a product of the marriage despite the child retaining the maiden name of the mother and there being a sizable difference between the birth date of the child and the marriage of the mother (around 10 years).
Here is where the Scottish heritage part comes into play. The branch of the family that comes from the husband (non-biological father of the bastard daughter) would connect me to three other clans. Would it be insincere to claim these clan connections? Or should the only claimed connections be those that are blood?
My apologies for the verbose post.