Shalfleet Spanish Galleon

[Seraphina]

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In my extended pedigree I have Shalfleet Spanish Galleon and his sire is given as Samoems Silent Knight of Shalfleet, but on the Whippet Archive website there is Shalfleet Sailing Free as his sire. Does anybody know which one is right?

 

[parnew]

My records have you as right and I think whippet archive is wrong.

Cheers Griff.

 

[BeeJay]

I have S Silent Knight of Shalfleet as his sire too.

 

[Avalonia]

I have S Silent Knight of Shalfleet as his sire too.

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My records also have Silent Knight as sire. I have found a small, but not insignificant number of pedigrees on the archive site have errors in them ranging from incorrect sire or dam, or litter mates, or simply awful spelling errors. These things can, and should, be corrected by people who have the correct information.

I do so any time I know my information is correct (much of my information came from going through the official records in the library at the Kennel Club on Clarges Street).

Lanny

 

[Seraphina]

Thanks everybody. I remeber the old days when I got large piece of paper and created pedigree for my Borzois going back to the beginning of the records. It was so easy to make a mistake.

I was especially suspicious of this one as they spelled Shalfleet Spanish Galleon as Gallon

 

[Avalonia]

Thanks everybody.  I remeber the old days when I got large piece of paper and created pedigree for my Borzois going back to the beginning of the records.  It was so easy to make a mistake.
I was especially suspicious of this one as they spelled Shalfleet Spanish Galleon as Gallon 

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Hi back. For the record, I corrected the Archives record on this one because this happens to be one of the pedigrees I personally researched at the KC. So I know for sure, who the correct sire was.

People are doing their best to be helpful and fill in holes in pedigrees on the Archive website, and it is a wonderful resource. But like many things it is only as perfect as the persons who provide the information, or sometimes, simply their command of English. I have corrected a lot of spelling mistakes -- maybe not a big thing in the larger picture -- but information that should be correct for those who regard the Archive as an important resource source (as I do). I have been able to enhance my own mostly English archive substantially with European pedigrees thanks to the Whippet Archive, and I have been frankly quite astounded by how many English whippets, over the decades, have contributed so substantially to the pedigrees of all those 'foreign' whippets. This isi particularly true with the Scandinavian pedigrees I have resourced off the archive. Equally interesting is how deeply whippet breeding from the earliest lines in England contributed to the development of the modern German whippet. The records are astounding -- not just names of dogs but dates of birth and records, all carefully documenting dogs that ultimately go back to the United Kingdom, but often, only in the earliest years of the 20th century. The Whippet Archive is a treasure, and as such is something all of us who love this breed and seek to know its full history, should share in, contribute to, and celebrate.

Lanny

 

[Seraphina]

Yes it is very interesting and I hope that over time more people will search out old photos and post them there, as well as entering their dogs.

I have had a brief look at this archive several times, but only included my dogs after I received few emails from people in Europe asking me if i could get some photos of dogs in the pedigree of Ch. Taejaan Allth Rightmoves, a bitch that came with me to to Europe in 1992 and had there 2 litters. After looking at her pedigree in the archive I was astonished how many dogs living in Europe have her in their pedigree.

When I started to look at Whippets all over the world (some 10 years ago) I also was surprised how many dogs in such countries like Russia and other former Soviet Union countries have English and European dogs in their pedigree. I was expecting totally independent lines

 

[Seraphina]

My Marlie (Taejaan Allth Rightmoves) had actually 3 litters. :b