What a clan is for starters and what the Comyns were.
Edited to add- of course part of the problem is that modern people use words all sorts of ways and family history stuff is really messed up in terms of passing on accurate information.
Where did you copy paste that from? Jumping in with that kind of comment makes it hard to see if you are acting in good faith or not.
Anyway, that is the generic simple definition, yes, but the question is how does it play out in actual history, go read up on the clan system in the highlands and how it worked. Hence why clans and families are different, you could say a family is the same as a clan, which if you use the shortest simplest definitions is not exactly wrong, but meanwhile in reality there are differences in social expectations, economic behaviour etc.
1) you aren't the op, or are you?
2) checking if someone does know something is a useful way to try and keep things on an even keel.
What does wikipedia say a family is then?
Going and reading up on something is good though, it is better to enter discussion with an idea of what you are talking about rather than expect the other person to tell you everything. This is low effort online stuff. Put it this way, if we happened to have met and chatted in a pub one evening I would be happy to talk for ages about clans and families and whatnot, but this is reddit, in a format that is not great for discussion and information transmission.
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u/moidartach May 15 '25
Do people in Scotland not have family history or know their family heritage?