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 tu 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,...