What clan?

Umm, welcome I think...he says dodging the swinging claymore.

My American born grandfather, Murdoch Fletcher Macdonald, fancied himself of Clan Donald. His Canadian born father. Archibald Macdonald, (Skye Glen, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia) did as well. Murdoch's grandfather, John Gray Macdonald was born in Staffin, on the Trotternish Penisula of Skye and was shipped out in the Clearances about 1854.

When Native Americans were rounded up from their homelands and sent on long walks or long train rides to other parts of the World their relatives back in their homeland who escaped capture didn't stop calling the captured ones by their tribal names.

Would be akin to calling an Oklahoma member of the Cherokee Nation less a Cherokee than a North Carolina Member of the Cherokee Nation. Or proclaiming a Navajo that moved to San Franciso as somehow not a Navajo anymore....or that a descendent of an African captured and brought to America as a slave was somehow not African.

In my usually less than humble opinion I don't need the approval of a desencent of someone who somehow avoided the Clearances to officially pronounce me a Scot. I'll take my lieneage from my own ancestors thank you.

'course, now that my family has the DNA done you may be right...we seem to be Scandanavian after all, Sons of Somerled...

But, bottom line...I'll decide, not you.

Ron