The first time I attended a Scottish event (35 -40 yrs. ago), I stopped at a genealogical booth to see what I could find out about my family and clan affiliation. I only thing I knew at that point was that my grandfather had been born in Scotland and immigrated to the USA with his family at the age of 5. I was bluntly and dismissively told by the "expert" that he had never heard of the name "Lyle" and that it was certainly not a Scottish name, and he would not even look the name up in his reference books. Fortunately, another person at that booth overheard the conversation, and both of us that the Lyle family was an ancient Scottish family from county Ayr, and that a Lord Lyle was once the regent of Scotland. He also showed the first "expert" where the name was listed in the references that they were using. I ended up joining the group and found out that the first expert was a bag of wind who thought he was more Scottish than even the members who were born in Scotland. Ironically, I found that the guy who recognized my family name had no personal Scottish ancestry but became interested though his wife's family. I also found out a few weeks ago that the second guy designed one of the Ayr regional tartans. So who is more Scottish, and who do you bother listening to?