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March 8 2012, 22:54:55 UTC 5 years ago
What I know (I think): Enid and Alexander Healy were the ones who broke away from the Covenant and came to America.
Their son Jonathan married Frances Brown. (Jonathan and Fran are featured in a couple of short stories available for free on Seanan's website.)
Jonathan and Frances had Alice, who is one of the two grandmothers Verity talks about (she's the one currently spelunking in Hell.)
Alice married Thomas Price, who'd been sent by the Covenant to America to try to convince the Healys to come back, and instead stayed.
Alice and Thomas had Kevin (Verity's father) and Jane. Jane married Theodore Harrington and they have two kids, Artie and Elsie.
On the other side, there's Verity's other grandmother, Angela, who's one of the two sane Cuckoos we know.
Angela is married to a revenant. They adopted Evelyn (Verity's mother). (They later also adopted Sarah.)
So when Verity says great-grandmother, she means Fran, and when she says great-great-grandmother, she means Enid. When she says grandmother she either means Alice (her dad's side) or Angela (her mom's side).
March 9 2012, 00:23:09 UTC 5 years ago
*shrug* I get confused on cousins once removed, too.
March 9 2012, 19:04:18 UTC 5 years ago
March 9 2012, 19:40:22 UTC 5 years ago
Did manage to guess that Caroline was the first finder of the mice, at least.
May 7 2012, 14:35:56 UTC 5 years ago