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About two years ago I made a family tree for Daisy's family. I found it interesting that Don Rosa actually had the whole tree and wanted to include it in his "Donald Duck Family Tree", but didn't have room for it. I haven't made up anything in this tree, I have only used Don Rosa's theories and filled in with others' when Rosa didn't have any. More about who made up what below. This drawing was made in October 2013, but it's almost exactly the same tree that I made two years ago (but much better drawn now, if I may say it myself). It's drawn by hand and colored in Gimp. You may notice that all the faces that are in Don Rosa's family tree look almost exactly the same on mine. It's to make it even more clear that my tree is more like just a part of Rosa's. Now I present all the parts that everyone plays on the tree, with the English and Swedish names:April Duck (Kicki Anka) Daisy's familiar but not very often occurring niece.
May Duck (Pippi Anka) Daisy's niece.
June Duck (Titti Anka) April and May's triplet sister.
Huey Duck (Knatte Anka) Donald's nephew. More than well-known.
Dewey Duck (Fnatte Anka) You should know who he is.
Louie Duck (Tjatte Anka) Surprise, surprise, it's Huey and Dewey's triplet brother.
? Duck (? Anka) April, May and June's father. His face created by me for this version of the family tree. He has no name, because I didn't want to and I wasn't able to come up with any good one.
Donna Duck (Donna Anka) She's in the film "Don Donald" from 1937 and the oldest familiar Duck (except for Donald). She's usually seen as an early version of Daisy, but in some stories drawn by Al Taliaferro (and in ”Too Many Donalds” by Lars Jensen and Carlos Mota) she's one of Daisy's rivals about Donald. The idea that she's Daisy's sister and April, May and June's mother has been presented by some fan, and Don Rosa is said to have said it's a "good idea". So I had no reason to create a new mother for AMJ.
Daisy Duck (Kajsa Anka) Donald's fiancée, the one that this family tree is built around. Should be a familiar character.
? Duck (? Anka) Huey, Dewey and Louie's father, with a lot of theories around him. What he looks like should be pretty clear at this point, but since Don Rosa decided to make him anonymous in his tree I decided to do so as well. That he's Daisy's brother is Don Rosa's theory, since HDL call Daisy "aunt".
Della Duck (Dumbella ”Della” Anka) Donald's twin sister and the mother of HDL. Here's the link between my tree and Don Rosa's original one.
Mabel Shelduck (Märta Gravand) Your eyes are right. For Daisy's parents I've chosen the couple that arrives in Duckburg in the end of "The Invader of Fort Duckburg". They had no role in the Duck universe and Daisy had no parents, so I killed two ducks with one stone. That her name is Mabel is mentioned in the same story. Her birth name Shelduck is the one used in Gilles Maurice's own gigantic family tree. Daisy's mother had no last name, so I took the only one I've seen used anywhere. I thought of making Mabel the woman who's in Daisy's house in Carl Barks's "Donald's Love Letters". The non-Barks- or -Rosa-centered donaldist Asger Pedersen presented a theory about her being Daisy's mother. Since there's a similar-looking woman in Barks's "Best Christmas" and HDL call her "Grandma" it's even more logical that she would be Daisy's mother. It could be a version of Elvira "Grandma" Duck, but Daisy's mother would be HDL's biological grandmother, so that would work well. The reason that I didn't draw what I see as the old version of Mabel on the tree is that Mabel has small HDL-looking eyes while the woman from "Donald's Love Letters" has big Donald-eyes, and no one's yet shown a transformation from small to big eyes at adult age.
Anthony Duck (Anton Anka) Mabel's husband from "The Invader of Fort Duckburg". Name created by me.
Matilda Duck (Lisa Anka) Mentioned as Daisy's aunt in Barks's "Losing Face". The face was created by me for the tree that I made two years ago, and to not use the unsure name "Shelduck", I placed her on Anthony's branch.
Drusilla Duck (Drusilla Anka) Appears as Daisy's aunt in Carl Barks's "The Not-so-Ancient Mariner", which is his last story before he retired, and a good example of the horrible late barksism!
What's your opinion on the tree? What do you agree with? What are you uncomfortable with? Got any own theories? How's your pets? Tell me!
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I loved your family tree of Daisy Duck, here are some tips to help you:
In some versions, Daisy Duck's father is called of Otto Duck.
In another genealogical tree the father of HDL is shown the face, but it still does not have name.
vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/di…
however some fans, named him of Jamie Hawnkins Duck.
In the version of Gilles Maurice, Daisy has an anonymous sister who is mother of AMJ.
picsou.fandom.com/fr/wiki/Lady…
She has no name, but some have named her Lady Duck.
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actually I think rosa said that having donna duck was a good idea but just wouldn't work, also I'm not sure if this is canonical, but we saw daisy's parents in the cartoon donald's diary, and her little three brothers. also in roadster racers we see that she has a brazilian cousin named almanda de quack so there's also that
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So, if HDL's father is Daisy's brother, that means HDL would be dating his cousins (AMJ)?.
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"Just wouldn't work" does sound reasonable. After all, Donna is Mexican, while Daisy doesn't seem to have any connection to Mexico.
I ignored "Donald's Diary", since it is not Rosa-canon, although I don't view it as impossible that Mabel and "Anthony" might have looked like those parents when they grew older. Anyway, I've always felt like that cartoon takes place in an alternate universe which is not to be taken seriously by any account. The triplets seem to be substitutes for Huey, Dewey and Louie.
I was not even aware that "Roadster Racers" existed. Almanda de Quack obviously doesn't need to be addressed, but she could fit into the Latin American theme. Maybe Anthony, Matilda and Drusilla were born somewhere in Latin America? Matilda could be living in Brazil and be the mother of Almanda.
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I guess you're right, but you know it's still possible that daisy's sister is latino. Though either way I think daisy parents are at the same or at least become the same people in the cartoon. cause wouldn't it make sense for daisy's personality if her mom was a stern overbearing nun and her father was a little loon-y. But seriously I'm very impressed that you able to put some kind of family tree together for a character who's family we know so little about. Say maybe you could make more family trees for other characters like launchpad, gyro, webby, or even mickey mouse
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Also, I always thought that the "Aunt Matilda" Daisy mentioned was Matilda McDuck.
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I think that old lady duck from those two Barks comics is indeed Daisy's mother, and the more I think about it, I might like that she and Mabel are the same character. I always found it odd that Don Rosa simply put two random duck characters in that story they're in, without them playing a significant role. Usually backgroud characters are dogs.
I like to think that Daisy's family is like the one presented in the 1954 animated short 'Donald's Diary'. In it, Daisy has a mother (who could easily be a younger version of the old lady from Barks' two stories, as well as an older Mabel), a father (who looks like an older and more mentally unstable version of "Anthony"), as well as three younger brothers (who looks identical to Huey, Louie, and Dewey). In my mind, the three boys are really closer to Daisy in age, and one of them is indeed the nephews' father.
Here's where I disagree with you though: Donna Duck as Daisy's sister. There's a few comic strips by Al Taliaferro were Donna and Daisy first meet, and they clearly do not know each other. I know you only consider Barks and Rosa canon, but I'm willing to include more. According to Gilles Maurice's Duck tree, Daisy's sister appeared in what I think looks like a story by William Van Horn, though I could be wrong about that. So in my mind, Daisy has four siblings.
Other than that, I really like your tree.
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Thank you!
I don't necessarily agree with the idea of Donna being Daisy's sister either, but since there was no one else, I decided to include her. I'm not sure I would have made the tree unless I had heard the idea about who Daisy's sister was - there would have been too many holes to fill in. And as you point out, in making this tree I only followed the Barks/Rosa canon, in which Donna has never made an appearance.
I considered "Donald's Diary", and I tried to make it so that the parents might be the same as in that short. As for the triplets, they're not Barks/Rosa canon, and I don't see a need for them in a universe where Huey, Dewey and Louie already exist. And after all, "Donald's Diary" doesn't seem to follow the normal Disney canon either.
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People say that Don Rosa is Barks' successor. I tend to think of Barks as Al Taliaferro's successor. Taliaferro introduced a lot of characters like Huey, Dewey and Louie, Daisy Duck, Grandma Duck and Gus Goose. Barks used all of these. I think it's fair to include Taliaferro's stories into the Barks/Rosa canon too. Just my opinion of course
As I said, I really like that you made the "Mabel and husband = Daisy's parents-connection". I actually really like the idea of Huey, Louie, and Dewey's dad being one third of a set of triplets. Similarly, it appears that April, May, and June's mother from Gilles Maurice's tree is a twin of Daisy. Also, Donald and Della are twins. So Huey, Louie, and Dewey would be surrounded by twins and triplets in their branch of the family tree, like a pattern.
I thought I should leave this here: scrooge-mcduck.wikia.com/wiki/…
It appears that Don Rosa hands these updated versions of the Duck tree out at conventions and he has now added Ludwig Von Drake as well as an image of the ducklings' father (yaay). So I guess this is as close we'll ever get to canonically see what the father looks like. In my head-canon I imagine this to be what Daisy's triplet-brothers age into
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This tree is interesting, though I don't like the idea of Donna being Daisy's sister (because of these strips in which the two met for the first time through their common acquaintance with Donald, meaning that they can't be sisters). Well done anyway. As for the parents, it IS a good choice; "Anthony" even fits what a younger Otto Duck may have looked like.
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When making this tree I followed only the Don Rosa canon, which would mean that everything we know about Donna is non-canon. Of course, AMJ might as well have another mother, but I had no personal relationship with Donna, so I liked the idea of including an existing character.
Thanks for the compliments!
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Well okay if you don't want to use non-Rosa/Barks material, but then Donna Duck wouldn't exist at all.
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I like that idea better than Daisy being the child of Ludwig von Drake and Mat(h)ilda McDuck, as claimed in another family tree. After all, how would Daisy's last name be Duck then?
(Ludwig and Matilda being together on the other hand does make sense and nicely ties him into the family)
If however, Matilda McDuck and Matilda Duck turned out to be the same person, and Daisy's aunt, not mother....
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I've never even heard of Daisy being related to Matilda McDuck. That would also mean she's related to Donald, which would be kind of gross. As for my tree, I just stole Don Rosa's ideas, and completed them where I needed to.
Of course, Ludwig+Matilda is such a brilliant idea: it doesn't leave Matilda alone, it's the only way to tie Ludwig into the tree, and I'd love for Ludwig to be introduced into the Don Rosa universe. He's certainly one of my favourite characters, and I'd love to see what Don would have done with him
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Well, the idea would be that the "Aunt Matilda" that Barks sometimes refers to and Matilda McDuck would be the same duck. I think that it is more or less what Barks intended, to some extent; my theory is that when Barks made his first own family tree, he included "a duck named Matilda as an aunt" because he remembered the Aunt Matilda, but had forgotten that she was actually Daisy's aunt at that point.
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If Matilda McDuck was Daisy's aunt, there would be sufficiently many steps removing her from Donald and she could be of course be related by marriage only.
Wikipedia states "According to an explanation created by Don Rosa 's personal family tree, he would have to be married to Donald Duck's aunt, Matilda McDuck , making him Scrooge's brother-in-law. Nevertheless, Ludwig exclaims in the Christmas story "The Cuckoo Clock Caper" [10] that he and Scrooge are "joined in good fellowship". [11] Besides, he was shown as a member of the Absentminded Dating Club, [12] being the suitor of another member of this same club in some old comic strips, a duck woman called Alice. [13] Therefore, Ludwig's marital status is officially unmarried."
Being joined in good fellowship doesn't exclude being in-laws in my eyes, so it's possible for Ludwig to be widower'd or divorced.
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Also: I wonder if there is a relation between Molly McDuck (né Mallard) and Drake Mallard
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I would always interested in the genealogy of Donald and I have tried several times to make his family tree whole, but I came to the conclusion that it is impossible, I have 12 years and I am from Uruguay, I read disney comics since I can remember, as a 7 I became interested in genealogy Donald because once saw I see a tree family of Donald, I have a theory that the mother of daisy is Coot, that would explain why she have a cousin named Goose, which in my opinion and that of Gilles Maurice opinion is the sister of gus, well I meant and sorry if this is hard to understand is that my English is not very good, greetings.
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(Sorry for answering so late, my computer has been broken)
Hey! Nice meeting a fellow Duck-genealogist! It is indeed quite impossible to create a complete Duck family tree (Gilles Maurice has done an awesome job!). All I've tried to do is to at least summarize Don Rosa's version in a way (and while I was at it, I completed it with some old theories of mine).
As I said, nice meeting you! And remember: don't stop being a Donaldist!
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It is a great pleasure for me to meet a duck- genialogist too. Yes, it's very difficult , I have also done my own theories family trees . Maybe we could intercambir our theories at some point, or talk about it, greetings!
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*Exchange no intercambir
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Thanks, glad you liked it
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