Quote Originally Posted by heilanner View Post
this has been a very interesting thread.



so Jock, where would a person stand if like in my mum's family the father is English (going back to at least 1730 that i've traced in the family tree) and not "entitled" to wear a tartan but the mother has family in Aberdeen going back to the 1600s?

would you allow them to wear the mother's taran?
I think you know very well that you're poking at a hornet's nest with that question heilanner ... and steering my "very interesting thread" away from its intended purpose. My next 'smiley' incarnation will be this -->