Actually Jack, where I come from in Canada there's a HUGE Scottish population that also traces their lineage through clans and can trace theirs back 300 and 400 years (through verbal recollection, if we're talking about where they actually came from and ancestors and such it can be traced back to well before the Romans came). While it was generally considered ok to marry within the Clan (as in another person with the same last name as their could be thousands of members of a clan) it was, until the last one or two generations, not considered ok to marry rival clans. I.e. You'd never catch a MacDonald marrying a Campbell.
"We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect." Ambrose Bierce
Actually Jack, where I come from in Canada there's a HUGE Scottish population that also traces their lineage through clans and can trace theirs back 300 and 400 years (through verbal recollection, if we're talking about where they actually came from and ancestors and such it can be traced back to well before the Romans came). While it was generally considered ok to marry within the Clan (as in another person with the same last name as their could be thousands of members of a clan) it was, until the last one or two generations, not considered ok to marry rival clans. I.e. You'd never catch a MacDonald marrying a Campbell.
"We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect." Ambrose Bierce