thumb|right|A portion of the Duck/McDuck family tree showing several of the more famous Ducks The Duck family is a fictional family created by The Walt Disney Company. Its best known member is Donald Duck. The first public attempt at a coherent biography of the ducks was published in 1974. An Informal Biography of Scrooge McDuck by science fiction author Jack Chalker used names and events in the Barks stories (and a very few non-Barks ones) to create a life story for McDuck. It provided the basis for a Scrooge biography included in The People's Almanac.