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Old 03-22-2010, 11:45 AM
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Laird MysticCat, which tartan will ye be sportin'?


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I know clans are families. Are septs like sub families within the clans? Or are they more like cadet branches of a clan?
Clans are really larger/broader than families as such, thought the sense of shared ancestry is certainly a large part of it.

Septs are other family groups that gave allegiance to a clan chief (or who lived on land belonging to the chief) and thus came under the umbrella/protection of the clan.
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