i had nearly moved on when i felt completely compelled to comment on this statement probably better than most clan websites which tend to be based on long outdated stuff from the th century then i do not see a problem in using it until a better source can be found especially to make amends to the masses of unsourced information that is found on so many of the individual clan articles i can only interpet this as something is probably better because it is newer this makes no sense to me history is what it is it should not change for the sake of change if it was accurate over years ago it is just as accurate today again if something is true and accurate hundreds or even thousands of years ago it is not and should not be subject to change because someone decides to re write it for either personal gain or an agenda that is exactly what has happened with the origins for many highland clans for any that might be interested william skene's and john murray's collaboration of the highlanders of scotland their origin history and antiquities is a wonderful and refreshing read this is more than likely the truest accounting for several of the highland clans it asserts that many of the origin claims put forth in more recent times are attempts to gain a foothold on the chieftainship by usurping the rightful lines you'll find that cadet septs used this technique to basically try to re write history for their own selfish gain you'd have to read the book to see how this played out but as i said before nearly all of the highland clans being bastardized as norman anglo horman flemish etc are really dalriadan and pictish mixes examples would be campbell cameron grant davidson wallace etc i of course have distant ydna connections to all of these surnames but i know no one wants to hear about that as any sort of evidence i'll admit not one of these surnames or clans has a pure lineage but they all have a lineage going back to the picts and gaels i am of that lineage which is quite rare and continues to be established the masses are not of that lineage they are a mix if r a other r b haplotypes the i haplotypes etc i will be the first to admit there may be hundreds of families not even related through a shared male ancestor sharing a surname or clan my concern is with the origins only and the original chiefly lines and please don't tell me how we are a mix of so much dna i am only referring to ydna the male lines i am not talking about mtdna nor autosomal what i don't understand is why when there is so much sourced information out there some editors choose only to use factually inaccurate sourced information there is substantial factually accurate sourced information out there however it is not my intent to correct these erroneous articles or to present an opposing view there is no opposing view there is either the truth or their are lies either the celtic version is correct or the comyn version is correct or neither is correct there can't factually be multiple versions of an origin it is what it is and there is only one true origin this is not a contest to see who can provide more recent sources i would hope wikipedia would want the truth out there and not contests of who can out edit who which is what wikipedia appears to be there my case is presented to the message and not a specific messenger clan davidson is celtic it descended from celts and it has no connection to the comyn family it did not descend from a comyn male they came from a very ancient gaelic ancestor an ancestor shared by several highland clans before surnames even were in use one other greatly incorrect update to this site was the battle alleged between the davidson's and the macpherson's this never happened the battle was between the clans fighting for the chief of the clan chattan the battle was fought between the mackintoshs and the macphersons the macphersons were the true chiefly line but were out documented by the usurping mackintosh this is pretty much exactly what is happening here on this very page i hope someone else has more time and energy to properly update this page with the correct information and let's bury the lies and factually inaccurate information comprising most of this article it was originally much more factually accurate but over the course of time has been corrupted with sourced information that is not also factually accurate