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Scrooge is related to donald duck how??
Yep, Donald is the son of Scrooge's sister, Huey, Dewy, and Louie are the sons of Donald's twin sister Della.
Now, I was asked a simalar question on a differant message board (not eBay), so I'll copy the question and the answer here for you.
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the original question...
Thought I'd ask our duck expert if you had a copy of the family tree Barks was supposed to have made up?
Its supposed to have explained how both Donald AND his nephews had Scrooge as an uncle.
As far as I know there is only one copy of the Carl Barks Duck family tree and last I heard Don Rosa had it. However, Don Rosa did use it make a version of it that has been published and I do have a copy of that.
To answer your question. Donald has a twin sister, Della and she is H, D, + L's mother, and Scrooge is their great-uncle, because he is their mother's uncle. Donald's mother is Scrooge younger sister Hortense. However, Delle is said to but a bit dumb (thus she is called Dumbdella in some stories), and was not able to raise her three boys herself and one day when their father was in the hospital she sent them to live with her twin brother Donald, but for some unknown reason, she never went back to get them.
It should also be noted that several characters in Duckburg, related or not, call Scrooge "Uncle Scrooge" because he is one of the oldest people in Duckburg as well as the builder and founder of nearly every business in Duckburg, most call him Mr. McDuck though.
Scrooge came from a very poor family and had to go to work at age 10, he left home for America at age 13, thus he was never educated and had little contact with a family of any kind for most of his life. This resulted in his knowing so very much about everything he ever tried, but so very little about anything else, and is why we often see Scrooge dumbfounded by the simpleist of things. But more to the point, it also resulted in a bitter and very unhappy old man who learned that he was uncared for and unloved. Years of supporting his family, with no thanks in return made him feel unwanted and abbandoned by his family, and soon learned to hate everyone--especily family, because he now saw his family as people who only came to him to ask for money, and not people who cared to spend time with him.
Now, why I have said this, is because in one story the 3 boys are seen crying and telling Scrooge that they where abbandoned and that he and Donald are the only family they have. This "The Richest Duck in the World: Part 12 of Life and Times". This story is the sequal to Carl Barks' very first Scrooge story "Christmas on Bear Mountain". It takes place after the 4 nephews have left the cabin, but before they have gone to Scrooge's mansion for dinner on Christmas Day. In this story we see Scrooge's first contact with a family member in 25 years, and haveing never seen Donald or the boys he expects them to be like the rest of the family and so is ready to attack at the first mention of money~~~he does not expect to find 3 boys who like himself also feel unloved and unwanted by their own family, nor does he expect to find that Donald cares so much about children that aren't even his own. At their first meeting Scrooge is very defencive, but once he relizes that his nephew and grand-nephews are not after his money, we see Scrooge warm up to them and go on to become his dearest companions, and invited to travel the world with him. And so begins the adventures that are now classics in both comics and on TV.
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There are 2 pictures here:
The first is from the story mentioned above, "Morning After Bear Mountain", by Don Rosa, shows Scrooge and the boys when they first meet.
The second is the "Donald Duck Family Tree", by Don Rosa, based on Carl Barks' family tree. In Don Rosa's notes, there are 3 mistakes on the family tree as Disney Corp. published it:
1) is a non-Barks character that Disney Corp required Rosa to add: Fethry Duck (seen next to Gladstone Gander). Don Rosa says that true Duck historians should scratch Fethry's face off the tree, because according to the Barks Universe, Whitewater was an only child.
2) is a character that Disney Corp. deleated from the family tree, which is Prof. Ludwig Von Drake; according to Don Rosa, Von Drake is married to Scrooge's sister Matilda and should be shown just to her right (on the left side of the picture, right next to Scrooge)
3) is that Gladstone Gander is not related to Scrooge and calls him Uncle to irritate Scrooge, but he is related to other ducks in the family
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WOW! I'm being long-winded again, but almost done. This picture is quite large and didn't fit on my scanner, so I had to scan it in sections and than reduce the size and piece them back together on screen, which explains the lines you see on the picture here. By reducing it to fit the screen, you can't quite see the names, but I can type them up here if you can't read them and would like to make a record of them.
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Scrooge is related to donald duck how??
Yep, Donald is the son of Scrooge's sister, Huey, Dewy, and Louie are the sons of Donald's twin sister Della.
Now, I was asked a simalar question on a differant message board (not eBay), so I'll copy the question and the answer here for you.
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the original question...
Thought I'd ask our duck expert if you had a copy of the family tree Barks was supposed to have made up?
Its supposed to have explained how both Donald AND his nephews had Scrooge as an uncle.
As far as I know there is only one copy of the Carl Barks Duck family tree and last I heard Don Rosa had it. However, Don Rosa did use it make a version of it that has been published and I do have a copy of that.
To answer your question. Donald has a twin sister, Della and she is H, D, + L's mother, and Scrooge is their great-uncle, because he is their mother's uncle. Donald's mother is Scrooge younger sister Hortense. However, Delle is said to but a bit dumb (thus she is called Dumbdella in some stories), and was not able to raise her three boys herself and one day when their father was in the hospital she sent them to live with her twin brother Donald, but for some unknown reason, she never went back to get them.
It should also be noted that several characters in Duckburg, related or not, call Scrooge "Uncle Scrooge" because he is one of the oldest people in Duckburg as well as the builder and founder of nearly every business in Duckburg, most call him Mr. McDuck though.
Scrooge came from a very poor family and had to go to work at age 10, he left home for America at age 13, thus he was never educated and had little contact with a family of any kind for most of his life. This resulted in his knowing so very much about everything he ever tried, but so very little about anything else, and is why we often see Scrooge dumbfounded by the simpleist of things. But more to the point, it also resulted in a bitter and very unhappy old man who learned that he was uncared for and unloved. Years of supporting his family, with no thanks in return made him feel unwanted and abbandoned by his family, and soon learned to hate everyone--especily family, because he now saw his family as people who only came to him to ask for money, and not people who cared to spend time with him.
Now, why I have said this, is because in one story the 3 boys are seen crying and telling Scrooge that they where abbandoned and that he and Donald are the only family they have. This "The Richest Duck in the World: Part 12 of Life and Times". This story is the sequal to Carl Barks' very first Scrooge story "Christmas on Bear Mountain". It takes place after the 4 nephews have left the cabin, but before they have gone to Scrooge's mansion for dinner on Christmas Day. In this story we see Scrooge's first contact with a family member in 25 years, and haveing never seen Donald or the boys he expects them to be like the rest of the family and so is ready to attack at the first mention of money~~~he does not expect to find 3 boys who like himself also feel unloved and unwanted by their own family, nor does he expect to find that Donald cares so much about children that aren't even his own. At their first meeting Scrooge is very defencive, but once he relizes that his nephew and grand-nephews are not after his money, we see Scrooge warm up to them and go on to become his dearest companions, and invited to travel the world with him. And so begins the adventures that are now classics in both comics and on TV.
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
There are 2 pictures here:
The first is from the story mentioned above, "Morning After Bear Mountain", by Don Rosa, shows Scrooge and the boys when they first meet.
The second is the "Donald Duck Family Tree", by Don Rosa, based on Carl Barks' family tree. In Don Rosa's notes, there are 3 mistakes on the family tree as Disney Corp. published it:
1) is a non-Barks character that Disney Corp required Rosa to add: Fethry Duck (seen next to Gladstone Gander). Don Rosa says that true Duck historians should scratch Fethry's face off the tree, because according to the Barks Universe, Whitewater was an only child.
2) is a character that Disney Corp. deleated from the family tree, which is Prof. Ludwig Von Drake; according to Don Rosa, Von Drake is married to Scrooge's sister Matilda and should be shown just to her right (on the left side of the picture, right next to Scrooge)
3) is that Gladstone Gander is not related to Scrooge and calls him Uncle to irritate Scrooge, but he is related to other ducks in the family
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WOW! I'm being long-winded again, but almost done. This picture is quite large and didn't fit on my scanner, so I had to scan it in sections and than reduce the size and piece them back together on screen, which explains the lines you see on the picture here. By reducing it to fit the screen, you can't quite see the names, but I can type them up here if you can't read them and would like to make a record of them.
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mordo---
Disney...yep...US government...no...Disney has some strange laws, and Don Rosa and Gladstone went over them in a protest.
"Wendigo", has absolutly nothing wrong with it, except that it potrayed Indians in a politically incorrect manner
"A Little Something Special" has lots of things wrong with it, a cameo of Prof Von Drake, naked Beagle Boys, an ad for Moxie, Flinty in the sewer, but this was the needle that back the camels back....(and in this case the camel was Gladstone Pub.)....and got Scrooge comics cancled...
Disney...yep...US government...no...Disney has some strange laws, and Don Rosa and Gladstone went over them in a protest.
"Wendigo", has absolutly nothing wrong with it, except that it potrayed Indians in a politically incorrect manner
"A Little Something Special" has lots of things wrong with it, a cameo of Prof Von Drake, naked Beagle Boys, an ad for Moxie, Flinty in the sewer, but this was the needle that back the camels back....(and in this case the camel was Gladstone Pub.)....and got Scrooge comics cancled...
