Quote Originally Posted by McElmurry View Post
So none of the armigerous (cheifless) clans have associations in Scottland?

When you live in a swirling cultural mosaic of 300 million people it takes a little organization to find likeminded people who want to preserve a particular aspect of your heritage. Someone has to keep the mailing list and organize get togethers. And if there hasn't been a Hamish MacOnion for 300 years that certainly isn't going to stop the MacOnions of North American from getting together for a potluck.
Yes, sorry, that was a terrible statement of generality, wasn't it? In fact there are several associations of folks with the same armigerous surname very, very actively seeking their absent chiefs. Off the top of my head I can think of the Highland family of Macgillivray and the Lowland one of Cunningham working diligently in this direction right now. What I was trying to say was that Clan Associations are formed around chiefly families in Scotland. They get together for potlucks and the like just as you do in America, but the structure is vastly different because of the presence of a chief.

Now back to the subject with apologies for the side-trip.