With all the news leaking as to who will be returning in Season 7, we’ve found ourselves tirelessly reporting on quite a few family members of Bones’s main characters. And considering all the folks who are not returning (at least, not as far as we know!), we can’t blame u if your head is spinning regarding all these odds-and-ends relations.

And so, since our greatest joy is to make our readers’ lives easier, we’ve written up a compendium of the most important (and even a few of the less important) family members to have appeared on Bones.

Temperance Brennan (Emily Deschanel)

Naturally,...