ERIKA VON HIRTENSTAMM

OK.  So ten years on now, here remains perhaps a most valuable gift to entire Chinook world finally from--
INTERVALE CHINOOKS,
TULLIBARDINE CHINOOKS, and
ATHOLL CHINOOKS--

These pedigrees the result of INTERVALE's sole contract w/GSD researcher, Yvonne Hecht, in 2001, to research the most probable early american GSD Origins of Lombard/Walden's CHINOOK BREED (female GSD) founder--
'Erika'.

And in short, these peds indeed remain, imo and all Tullibardine and Atholl research to date as well--
The most probable deep pedigree of Walden's 'Erika'. 

Meaning here's another 6 Generations to add, with love, for those of you with Chinook breeder databases & ped analysis files too now forward.

Pls Note:
Intervale shared these docs/peds (and more from same researcher/research, eventually I will upload ALL hereon) w/Tullibardine upon my direct request of Nancy B in 2003.  And Nancy B/Intervale also has long since kindly provided permission for me to share further online.  For a long time, however, I did not.  As frankly, I too wasn't sure if they would be misused in any corporate variances between then CDCA (fka CWW) and CCA (now PC for the AKC Chinook).

But now it's clear to me too how there will indeed remain two kennel club Chinook 'breeds'--
UKC and AKC--
I'm going to share fully publicly finally hereon, aye.

Because again-- With a dwindling overall Chinook population still in 2011, as combined with 2 variant kennel club standards here forward-- Indeed the risk of greater genetic bottlenecking remains ever present too then, as breeders already painfully know.  So time for me to stop preaching to the choir here once more then, and share.

As it's also time to admit Erika not only remained a most probably purebred reg'd GSD in her/Walden's own day, but how this indeed remains her most probable AKC reg'd ancestry.

And THANK YOU, Nancy B/Intervale, once more.  For you too knew we'd have to dig deeper into every ped as we all also dared breed forward.  Eventually, we all may yet know at least a handful of what 'Back to Walden's Boat' indeed means!  Bless.

And I know these docs may, pray joyfully, 'blow the minds' of ever more of you studying Chinook Coat Color pheno/genotyping today, if'n you haven't seen the beautiful array yet yourselves of coat colorations behind Erika herself.  For once we all begin to realize together now that Erika's own parents were indeed both 'wolf gray' GSDs, then I pray this will help bring a further sense of 'comfort' forward within also confines of today's Chinook and GSD genotypings, aye.

So DO ENJOY, pls, as it remains my own joy too finally to share publicly with all.  And know I WILL be asking some of you now to pls both ACTIVELY PED ANALYSE as well as consult DNA color officiandos further now, with regards to conjectures forward how Erika's coat color too may have carried forward in our breed's foundations (Lombard/Walden '39 foundation forward).

Of course, we will never 'know' how genotypes in fact carried then, but at least here's more real data to use and crunch forward, aye.  I think if Karen H/Bashaba Chinooks can wrap her own head and dbase around these peds soonest too then, frankly, we may all gain comfort soonest.

And this sharing doesn't mean we won't need squabble some more over current DNA GSD color theories forward too now.  But at least we'll be arguing more in the realms of the known vs unknown.  For again-- the goal here remains to increase consciousness in us all.

In me too.  So after 10 years, I'm proud to share now, and in today's world of also DNA color genotyping forward even, these deep peds for ERIKA VON HIRTENSTAMM.

For even though color matters so much LESS to me, personally, today than current auto immune and seizure DNA studies forward too, frankly; I also know 'reality' remains how both UKC and AKC 'ideals' 'standards' do also in part rest on coat color variances in living Chinooks world wide today. 

And following copy of Source pedigree from Perry Greene Kennels, inclusive of then description of Erika (note, with  variance in spelling of kennel name, and also variant color description).  My work continues, therefore, to further confirm or deny the Erika in this 1943 pedigree, and the one above in certified GSD researchers' pedigree in 2001, indeed were same female GSD and Chinook breed founder.  For I believe it may yet be possible to connect Walden himself with Erika's own breeder origins.  Never say never.  For again, as we also color genotype our way forward now, it can only pay to also phenotype our way further back too then, finally, imho.  Every strong future balances on also foundations of the past, colors included...