The world's oldest clan society. I don't recall seeing a Buchanan booth at previous games, so I stopped by. While I was there a woman and her daughter showed up. The woman had questions about several surnames, and I ended up helping her find the surnames in a Scottish surname dictionary, pointed out the areas where they were found on a map of Scotland, and showed her the Roxburgh Red tartan (associated by Tartan For Me! with one of the surnames) in District Tartans. Sometimes all my obsessing over tartans actually pays off.



I stopped by Clan Donnachaidh's booth to see if I could find anything definite on the supposed connection between the Robbie surname (common in the Lowlands) and the Robertsons. I didn't find anything I didn't already know.



I passed the Stewart booth, but didn't stop by this year. I didn't see kscaddo there at this time, although I saw him later.



At the Campbell booth I made use of their copy of Campbell Tartan to find out what I could on the original Campbell of Breadalbane (Breadalbane Fencibles) tartan. I wrote down a couple of thread counts on a piece of paper. Unfortunately, it was the same piece of paper I wrote the NTCP&D's set list on.



At the Clan Donald booth I tried to see if I could find anything on an ancestor of mine who was apparently born in eastern New York state in the mid-18th century. No luck. I remembered that at previous games Clan Donald had a chart of all their tartans. I asked to see it so I could take another look at the MacRory tartan. Yeah, I know there's always the Tartan Ferret and the Scottish Register of Tartans, but it seems more real when it's on a piece of paper at the Highland games. I'm sure it would seem even more real if it were woven and made into a kilt....