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Quote from user: ArildSir Smokt McDuck 931 -
Friar Juicy McDuck 910 - 971
Both are correct! :) You are the winner of this quiz! You have earned eternal glory and the right to pose the next question! :D

Podium:

1) Arild (13 relatives)
2) GeoX (6)
3) Lars Jensen (2) & Andrea (2)
4) Dutch Duckfan Down Under (3 x 1/3)

BARKSIAN FAMILY MEMBERS ABSENT FROM ROSA'S TREE:

A) Relatives of Donald Duck & Scrooge McDuck: (18)

- Donald's cousin Mehitabel Mudhen - "Tax Collectors" (1946)
- Diamond Dick & his third wife & her great grandfather - "The Old Castle's Secret" (1948)
- Gladstone's relative Susiebelle Swan - "The Gilded Man" (1952)
- Scrooge's great great grandfather - "The Heirloom Watch" (1955)
- General Stonewall Duck - "The Village Blacksmith" (1960)
- Poncey de Loon - "That's No Fable!" (1960)
- Donald's uncle Ludwig von Drake - "Flowers are Flowers" (1964)
- King Scrooge-Shah & Prince Donduk & 3 unnamed Princes - "King Scrooge the First" (1967)
- Grandma's uncle Eider - "Gold of the '49ers" (1972)
- Donald's ancestors who arrived ahead of the Mayflower (1976) (ILLU.)
- Friar Juicy McDuck & Sir Smokt McDuck - "Dubious Doings at Dismal Downs" (1986) (OILP.)

B) Relatives of Daisy Duck: (4)

- Daisy's sister - "Flip Decision" (1953)
- Daisy's aunt Matilda - "Losing Face" (1957)
- Daisy's grandmother - "Donald's Party" (1959)
- Daisy's aunt Drusilla - "The Not-So-Ancient Mariner" (1966)

C) Questionable for various reasons: (4)

- HDL's grandmother - "Volcano Valley" (1947)
- Donald's uncle Marmaduke Mallard - "The Sunken Yacht" (1949)
- Daisy's unspecified elder relative - "Donald's Love Letters" (1949)
- Donald's sainted aunt Pin Tail - "The Village Blacksmith" (1960)

Quote from user: Arild(Sir Swamphole McDuck 1161 - 1221. Wonder why Don Rosa has 1190-1260?
Quote from user: Don RosaQuote from user: MandracchioIn "Dubious Doings At Dismal Downs", we can see the dates of birth and death of Sir Swamphole McDuck (1161-1221), while [...] you say the dates are, in your opinion 1190 and 1260... why?
[...] Assuming that answering would require me checking some Barks story, I read the question carelessly. Rereading it, I realized there IS no such story as "Dubious Doings at Dismal Downs"! So I Googled that title, and I see it's "only" one of Barks' oil paintings. I say "only" because, while I'm happy the Old Master was given the opportunity to make some money off his popularity in his later years, I have never cared much for his paintings, so I was not familiar with this painting or the dates showing on the tombstone.

I note that there is also another McDuck relative shown on another tombstone, a relative I did not have in my Duck Family Tree. I wonder why you didn't also consider that an "error"? [...]

STILL -- If I had known that Barks had given Swamphole's dates in that painting, I probably would have used those dates. Why not? And I'm amazed that they are as close as they are to the dates I had pencilled into my rough notes on the Family Tree. Quite a coincidence!
Source: http://www.papersera.net/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?num=1069256543/2761#2761

Coincidence, my foot! :o Both sets of data were created to incorporate 1220, the year in which Sir Swamphole sealed the castle's dungeons, which is all we can gather from "The Old Castle's Secret" concerning Sir Swamphole's lifetime.

Quote from user: Robb_KI suspect that "Pintail" is the Bosun's family name, and we don't know his Christian (given) name.
Presumably, Matey McDuck served as First Mate under Captain Loyal Hawk. Thus, "Matey" denotes his position, while "McDuck" is his last name. It's plausible that "Bo'sn Pintail" is a parallel construction. The Dutch and German translations follow this route, respectively substituting "Bootsman d'Eendt" and "Bootsmann Bottervogel", where "d'Eendt" and "Bottervogel" clearly denote last names.

Quote from user: Michiel PRosa *did* include Matey McDuck and Bo'sn Pintail, who are not necessarily family members, but "previous incarnations" of Donald and Scrooge.
However, Barks' hokum theory of memory cells in the Ducks' genes, as proposed in "King Scrooge the First", makes it plausible that Matey and Pintail are indeed Donald and Scrooge's ancestors. Apparently, hypnosis is just another way to stimulate those memory cells.

One is the New Year's ten-pager from WDCS 185 (reference to last new year's story on first page).

"The Status Seeker" references "All at Sea."
Also--I guess this is kind of obvious--"The Money Champ" refers to "The Second-Richest Duck."

Does the reference to an earlier battle in "For Old Dime's Sake" count? U$: "She's a lot trickier and meaner now than she was the last time we battled." That may be too vague....

I think "The Big Bin on Killmotor Hill" refers to "Terror of the Beagle Boys", after a fashion.
Scrooge has built a new Money Bin, because the old one got damaged (and proved inadequate) in "Terror of the Beagle Boys", which appeared only a month earlier.
Note that Scrooge also refers to this earlier building as his Money Bin ("Terror", pg. 10).

"Ten-Cent Valentine" has a very obvious reference to "The Midas Touch".
"Magica!" "We remember her!" "She's the sorceress who almost melted Unca Scrooge's Old Number One Dime in Mount Vesuvius!"
"Feud and Far Between" references Barks' other Jones stories in general. Jones returns after 19 years of absence. (The neighbour in "The Good Deeds" (1959) is Mr. Pupp.)
"I hope he's not like Jones who lived there long ago! Remember old Jones?" "Could we ever forget him, Unca Donald?" [...] "I still owe him an uppercut for the ants he dumped in my barbecue salad!"
This last thing is not from an existing story.

Ah ha--I knew it was an old ten-pager, and that's the hint I needed. "The Great Ski Race" refers to "Thug-Busters."