Quote Originally Posted by Sir William View Post
Paul,

I can't answer for all the clans, but this assumption certainly does not apply to the Elliots.

The Elliots have one clan society, created in 1977 by Sir Arthur Eliott, 11th Baronet of Stobs and Laird of Redheugh, the Clan's late hereditary Chief, and headquartered at Redheugh in Scotland.

The Clan Elliot Society has branches in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

We join our national branch, but that also includes membership in the international clan society.
That sounds just about right.
I've heard a lot of stories of random "clan members" starting societies with no given authority from the "main clan" body... I've heard of the continental clans e.g. North American getting quite a membership going and then a lot of conflict is caused between these societies and the main society because no approval was given initially.