Which tartan for MacClive?

[MacCorquodale]

Fair enough, and if they were from Aberdeenshire, they were from the Highlands by some definitions.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Highlands

There's also a good possibility they had no idea about the Irish connection. The Highland clan system ended after 1745. If a family had come to Scotland from Ireland in say 1770 and then moved to the New World in say 1900, would they not consider themselves Scots? After a couple of generations of marrying Scots would not the Irish arrival story be a bit of a footnote?

I have a Canadian friend who is married and living in Cambodia. He's Canadian and hangs out with the other ex-pat Canadians there. The fact that his family came to Canada from Ireland and to Ireland from Wales a couple of hundred years before that probably doesn't come up in conversation much. I'll bet if he stays there, his descendants will know he was Canadian and that will likely be the end of it. See what I'm saying?

I'm just saying to follow the evidence and try to be open to wherever it takes you.

Well, that is all fine and I'm open to the possibility, but I'd still like to see some hard proof why we should throw Mr. Smith's research out the window first.

Something better than anecdotal accounts of "first hand knowledge" and my father called it "tartans for everyone."

Perhaps Peter could fill us in on something a bit more in the way of evidence that Mr. Smith's research is bunk.

Using phone records doesn't strike me as any less valid than any other type of record as a research tool. I mean, are census records also not to be used to try to trace back?


I highly doubt that someone as well known and with such acclaim and awards as well as degrees is such a sloppy historian as to just see who lives there now to proclaim who belongs to a clan. That dog just doesn't hunt.


Sorry if I'm ruffling feathers here but it just doesn't make sense.