If you want to know which, if any, clan your ancestors were associated with, there really is no substitute for the painstaking work of going back one generation at a time via the paper trail, except maybe Y chromosome DNA testing. The later ocassionally shows connections, but is better used at this point in time to exclude areas of research that would not be useful.


There is much BS in circulation about septs and "families associated with," a lot of it contradictory. Much of it is designed to sell tartan and increase membership in clan associations. Take it all with a grain of salt, especially as it might apply to any one situation, such as one's own family.