Over the years, before the advent of the computer age, I attempted to keep any and all printed material of interest to me. Given my traveling situation, storage space did not permit the keeping of all printed material whole. If it was not "old" and "one of a kind" my answer to space limitations was to remove it and keep it in 3 ring binders. Paul thankfully corrected my wrong statement on Rewati. As a gold offspring was linked to her, I wrongly assumed the other three were also. My personality is going to make that "misinterpretation" bothersome for the next week. I am sorry for the mistake.
Saturday, May 17, 2008
In an effort to preserve history, I mucked it up. Incredible!!!
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Wade G. Burck
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Wade, this is a coincidence. Paul has sent me a ton of stuff over the last year and a half, and I too keep mine in a three-ring binder. I have always found this particular chart more difficult to read than others, and before Paul sent it to me, I only had it in black-and-white, if you can imagine.
Mary Ann
Mary Ann,
I too found this chart difficult to read, but I did reference the color lines. No this is only trivia, so take it for what it is worth. When preparation were being made for the historic Tiger Symposium at the Minnesota zoo, and the eventual publishing of the papers as TIGERS OF THE WORLD, I was very honored to be asked to submit what I knew about the Tony white tiger line. Because I was in such learned company, I wanted to submit a professional pedigree chart. My effort was to tape 6 pieces of 8X10 together and start the extensive tracking to Mohan and Sioux Falls as I knew it. At this time I referenced as many "charts" as I could, and because we were dealing with different lines as well as the importance of color. I struck upon the idea of using circular "stick ons" to distinguish white from gold, using blue for white, and yellow for gold. I humbly submitted my "home made chart", and was so proud when I was complement on my use of the "colored dot's" which I was told hadn't been used before. A number of years later, I say the idea used in other "pedigree charts". I don't know if what I was told was true or not, but I was proud none the less. If what I was told was wrong, please don't be afraid to correct me.
Wade
Wade, you can be very proud of the system you invented, and yes it is still in use today, with male and female symbols on the colored dots. I don't know if you saw that Sarah Hartwell has further refined the colors, given all the colors in existence today. She uses gold for homozygous orange, gold/white for heterozygous orange, white for striped white, yellow for golden tabby, gray for faint stripes, and blue for snow white.
Mary Ann
Mary Ann,
Ha Ha. Given all the colors in existence today!!! I only needed blue for white, yellow for gold, and I just cute them in half and used half blue/half yellow for heterozygous. Snow white wasn't a clear clear distinction then, and I personally still don't think it is. It is a marketing tool just like a buckskin is in the sorrel quarterhorse breed. I don't recall there being any other colored"dots"
available at time besides black, green and red. They didn't seem appropriate. Luckily I only had to come up with 3 different colors. I have that original chart that I made someplace. I'll see if I can find it before you arrive. The photo copy I sent, being an idiot, I had to reapply new "dot's" as it photocopied black and white. I sure wanted to be as respectful as possible lined up with the "scholars", given my "circus foundation" LOL
Wade
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