DUCK RELATIONS (Rich)

[Lars Jensen]

Rich wrote:

>>> Daisy's nieces, April, May & June are the daughters of Daisy's
>>> never officially seen sister.
>>
>> What's your source for this?
>
> Lars you have me doubting myself now, but I could have sworn
> that Daisy makes a passing mention of her "sister" in the
> Neice's introduction story

Yeah, in that story Donald arrives at an apartment where he finds
Daisy who is visiting her sister. April, May and June are also
present in the apartment. We don't actually learn whether Daisy's
sister is AMJ's mom, though.

>>> AM&J and HD&L are supposedly cousins, which means Daisy
>>> & Donald are also cousins, as are Daisy & Gladstone.
>>
>> What's your source for this?
>
> In this, I am using the word "SUPPOSEDLY" as there is only
> subtle sourcing for this conclusion, such as "Dell Giant: Uncle
> Donald and His Nephews, Family Fun" #38 (1960) where they are
> all clearly listed on the Duck Family Tree, as well as being in
> attendance at Grandma Duck's ranch house for a "Family Reunion."
> So they ARE related, just how closely is not yet designated.
> I'm fine with them being "distant" cousins all, but the FAMILY
> TREES seem to indicate a much closer relationship.  I beleive
> there are other Family Trees depicting the relationships also
> (Gilles Maurice has a pretty good list of the PUBLISHED Trees on
> his site, though I know he also has some unofficial sources,
> too:
> http://goofy313g.free.fr/calisota_online/trees/index.html).

OK, I've now visited Gilles' site. And it's a great informative
site, but... If I only look at Duck family trees that have been
published by a Disney licensee and ignore the ones I don't know
how to interpret, I'm left with 3 trees, as far as I can tell.
Those trees (which are very similar to each other) all have the
same problem: according to them, Ludwig Von Drake isn't Donald's
uncle. Since we know he is (Walt told us so), those trees cannot
be relied on for correct information. Which means that as far as I
can tell there really is no proof that Daisy, Donald, Gladstone
and AMJ all dream of being involved with a first cousin.

Lars