Quote Originally Posted by Twa_Corbies View Post
Generally today if a clan is chiefless and wishes to have a new chief recognized, the clan may convene in a derb finne council to determine who is the next closest living heir to the last chief. Traditionally a chief could appoint a taniste to become his successor according to the old Celtic custom, but the Anglo-Norman conventions of primogeniture have somewhat replaced the Celtic system of tanistry. Under tanistry, the successor need not be the closest heir, but under the system of primogeniture, the heritable line passes to the next closest living heir.



I understand you to be saying that only a genetic heir , for lack of a better term, may be the successor to a clan chief. That, as it is now, an adopted child may not be the successor to a chief.
Is this what you mean?