Further Interest...from my Mother...

[gilmore]

As your mother probably knows well, if you want certainty there is no substitute for the painstaking work of tracing the paper trail back generation by generation. Otherwise, it sometimes happens that people pick out a clan with a sept of a similar name and a groovy tartan, spend hundreds and thousands on kilts, accessories, a few tattooes, clan crests, maybe a visit to the clan lands, only to find out some years later that it was all a mistake, and a waste of time and money.