History

The story of the Ragdoll begins in 1962 with a woman named Mrs. Ann Baker.
Her aunt, Mrs. Pennel, owned a white long-haired Angora cat of the breed, which was called the Josephine. Josephine interested Ann Baker so much that she asked to mate her with one of her Birmas and keep the kittens. Josephine had a litter that was pretty large, with blue eyes and relatively long hair.
In this litter there were two males, Daddy Warbucks and Geuber, which was the first Ragdolls, even if the breed had not been named yet. Both males were “mitted” varieties.

Mrs. Baker decided to try to mate Daddy Warbucks back to Josephine, as she considered that there was something special about these two males. The result was Fugianna, who was a brown Bicolour female. We do not know if there was more kittens in this litter because Fugianna is the only one spoken of, and she’s the foundation of the line that today is called the “light side”.
Not to get even more inbreeding, the decided to blend in another breed, and Ann Baker and a geneticist, she had contact with, decided to breed on a brown Burmese. Some claim that this was one black Persian, but in the big tree, where all real Ragdolls should be traceable, it says clearly “Burmese.” It also speaks for it, is that Ann Baker gave many of the cats in the litter Asian names, like Kyoto, Tiki, Toy Ling, Woo Wong, etc to ref with the Burmese ancestors who had similar names.
Burmese was certainly bred to Daddy Warbucks and one had a seal colorpoint female, Buckwhet. She was bred back to his father, and they were Kyoto, a seal mitted male, and Tiki, a seal colorpoint female. Tiki is frequent mother for what we today call the “dark-side”.
All these cats are registered under the cattery name “Ragedy Ann”.

Ann Baker began to sell their cats, whom she called Ragdolls, but she kept a firm grip on breeding, and forbade their buyers to breed their cats without the “License”, which meant that one should follow her rules and instructions.
A breeder, Denny Dayton, Blossom Time Cattery, did not share Ann Baker’s opinions about how the cats were bred on, and after a fierce dispute in court and in the media, he broke out and began to breed with other breeds, and from there the Ragdoll has spread worldwide.
Denny Dayton started Ragdoll Fanciers Club International (RCFI) whose goal is to breed approved for the different American cat associations. He also began writing at “the big family tree”, where all Ragdolls to be tracked in order to be called “genuine”.

The work in RCFI has been so successful that all U.S. Federal godkljente breed. The first involved the NCFA in 1969, and in the spring of 1993 approved the largest, but also the main union, CFA, Ragdoll as a breed.

The text is from http://scandinavianragdoll.com/