How far back is too far?

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Depends on what you want to do - find out where your ancestors came from or wear their tartan?
Bear in mind the further back you go, the less information is available, and unless you are lucky enough to find a link to a major land owner such as a farmer, or to the nobility, most ancestry research lines can't be traced back more than a couple of hundred years. I have kilts in Cunningham, Hamilton, MacLeod and Fraser tartans as I have ancestors from those families. My only Highland lineage which I was able to trace back to Inverness was the Fraser. My late wife Ann was a McConnell. The McConnells were a farming family from Dailly in Ayrshire so I was able to trace her McConnell lineage back to around 1700 and she bought me a kilt in McConnell tartan.