Meeting the Clan Chief of MacL
The clan name is removed to protect privacy, however family members know who I mean. Tonight I met the Clan Chief of MacL, or Rory. Happily he was very down to earth, dressed in brown shorts, employed by the Scottish Government to do with legal stuff around renewable energy projects (mostly). He has two older sisters, and two daughters. The eldest is the heir, and at nine, is only just cottoning onto the difference it might make to her life. His father was the genealogist who tracked down the evidence to become Clan Chief. He was always working on it, writing letters, receiving letters, visiting cemeteries - putting powder on the flat ones and then brushing it away to reveal the lettering. After dropping kids somewhere he would go to nearby library. His archive of material is in a bothy near D. Rory has had his DNA done, Y confirms he is a MacL, thankfully. They did a whole lot of testing at a 700 year anniversary of Bannockburn about 2014, without really thinking about the potent...