一些族谱声称能够追溯到麦克林血统，直至朱利叶斯·凯撒（Julius Caesar），在某些情况下，人们更倾向于将其倾向于阳光的古老凯尔特神。
(Some genealogies claimed to be able to trace the Maclean ancestry even further back, going as far as Julius Caesar, and, in some cases, admittedly more tendentiously, to the ancient Celtic god of the sun.)