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I will attempt to guess some more stories shortly.

Quote from user: Gyro Gearloose"In a second story, where did they go before Christmas? What other family members were involved?
What was interesting about the celebration?"

I'm guessing, but could that be the story where Scrooge drags Donald and the nephews along on a treasure hunt aboard a submarine just before Christmas?
To which year are you referring?

Sorry. The story you described is "Christmas Under The Ocean" from WDC & S #172, from Christmas 1955. The 1958 WDC story was a different Christmas story. But, thanks to your question, we've answered for 1954.
Don't you think it's strange that since your recent answer post, I've given up my Dutch citizenship, and become a Dane?
Just as I finished my post, the authorities, disgusted at my switching allegiance so quickly and so often, gave me a general EU citizenship!!!

Olivier: You are correct on #2-They spent Christmas on Lonely Rock Lighthouse.
#15 is INCORRECT! You confused the years.
Yes, the censored "Silent Night" was the answer to one of my yearly questions. There were 2 Christmas stories that year.
"The Christmas Cha Cha" was the answer to one question (but you have the years mixed up.
"Streets Paved With Gold" is also the answer to one question. All we need is the correct years for those, and who celebrated with The Ducks.

(15) -correct! "Christmas cha cha".
(17)-Correct! 1962 was "Quack Street Paved in Gold".

Questions number 13 and 18 among others seem still not answered at all.

13. Without cheating i e looking in my collection or in INDUCKS etc, I would suggest one story is from Xmas in Disneyland 1 where Donald & the nephews and Uncle Scrooge have travelled by boat to a tropical volcanic island, but I cannot recall the exact name (something like Tabu Yama or so or was that another Disney island ?). The volcano erupted after being filled by the gang, probably with some kind of feathers (reminding of a later Gyro tale) thus creating a "snow fall". I am not sure though, even if I read this story just half a year ago, obviously no Barks favorite of mine !

18. After more than 35 years of specializing in USA Barks comics I still have a slightly better feeling for the chronology in the swedish comic books, at least regarding the 10-pagers.
However my wild guess is that the 1964 story may be the poem - albatross - story, even if it was published in Sweden in the summer of 1967 :) . I know that this story was published a little bit late in Sweden but not exactly when the original came nor if it was considered a christmas story in USA...
So if my guess is correct they were on a steamer with Daisy (and Gladstone ?) and met an albatross who also was an important piece of the poem that Donald had learned to recite.
I remember a piece of a poem from the swedish translation : " Vad felas dig - jag grep en pil och sköt en albatross"

Hedberg, thank you and you may be right about the corn certainly that was the case in Volcano Valley. I may have to start reading my Disney collection as school books :)
Looking at another topic I accidently learned that my answer on number 18 must be wrong since that story was published in WDC&S 312, which was around 1966 not 1964...

Question number 12 :

In Sweden one of my really childhood favorites before I could read was the first Barks 10-pager in the Swedish Walt Disneys Serier number 13 from 1956. Sometimes the swedish publication date was just shortly after the USA publication.
Therefore, and since the question also reads "What was interesting about Huey, Dewey and Louie's condition?" which implies there was something special with the triplets, I deduce that it could be my old favorite in which the nephews refuse to wash their dirt off after playing partly since they found it healthy. I think this appealed to me when I was 5-6 years old and my mother had to read this story over and over for me. They lose at last though and they all celebrate christmas at home, but with whom ? Either Daisy or Grandma, but I think she congratulates Donald and/or asks how he manage to keep his nephews so clean. My guess is it was Grandma.

I ought to be able to do a little simple arithmatics to find out which issue of the (assumed always) monthly WDC&S contained this story. The problem though is that I have no 100 % certain "reference" stored in my memory. The first Barks 10-pager in WDC&S 31 (Victory Garden) could have been an october release, or am I mixing up with the october 1940 WDC&S 1 :) . Hmm, the latter should be correct and therefore number 31 should have been an april release which seems familiar. Thus the dec 1943 issue was number 39, which I recall could have a snowy cover motif, probably a Kelly cover.
So the dec 1956 issue should be number 13x12 + 39 = 195. The front cover, if I remember correctly, is the same as of the swedish comic book i e a Strobl cover with Donald on a red back ground.