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•The McDuck, Duck, and Coot families are old, established
lines whose names are
well-known due to the many well-publicized stories by their biographer, the late Walt
E. Disney and his successors. The families are very closely related due to numerous inter-marriages as
well as inter-marriages
with other families, notably the Rockerduck, Mallard, O'Drake, and von Drake lines.
In addition to these, the families also are connected to the following lines: Gander, Goose, McFowl, Naldo, von
Concius, Gadwall, Grebe, Loon,
McHaggis,Tinhas, Wildduck, and de Canard. These families are truly international in nature in that one can
find clans in Scotland, families in America, and relatives in many of the
various European counties.
•Many genealogists have researched these families. Some of the first were likely associates of Mr. Disney: Mr.
Don Rosa, an engineer from the University of Kentucky, and Mr. Carl Bark. Your writer began his interest in the families back in his youth, but became more serious
in June 2004. Another well-know genealogist who has looked into the
family is the well-known Dick Eastman
who wrote of the family in the 8 May 2005 issue of "Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter".