Tarvi Andiyar, later called Telgar, born c. 60 BL, geologist and (highly trained) mining engineer, probably died c. 50 AL.
Married during Turn 1 Sallah Telgar (who was already pregnant of their first child), war pilot (before coming to Pern, though she just finished her training when the war ended and subsequently did not serve active duty), shuttle pilot, owner of three fire lizards, a gold and two bronzes (two mentas), died on board the Yokohama 23 fifth-month 9 (her body was interred at Telgar Hold over twenty-five centuries later, in Turn 2525).

Tarvi Andiyar occupied quarters C-8411 on the Yokohama. He was of Indic ancestry, from a family with generations of gurus and mahatmas. As a geologist and mining engineer he prospected on Earth and First Centauri. He had reached his sixth decade at the time of landing [DD/1:78]. His year of birth is put at around 60 BL but will, of course, have been earlier and subject to how many years Tarvi spent in deep sleep on board the Yokohama.
Sallah Telgar was a Charter Member of the Pern Colony and one of the twelve pilots of the Yokohama's three shuttle vehicles. At sixteen, with service compulsory at that point in the bitterly fought Nathi war, she had chosen pilot training.  She did not partake in the fighting because of the fact that the war ended when she had finished her training as a war pilot. As the only surviving dependant of serving officers, she spent her childhood being shunted from one Service post to another. She lost both her parents and war compensations permitted her to acquire a substantial number of stake acres on Pern. Her grandparents on her father's side were Alaskan. Sallah had four children by Tarvi Andiyar.
Tarvi, and his children with him, changed their family name from Andiyar to Telgar after the heroic death of Sallah.

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B-1

It is not completely sure if it is the Lord Holder or Lady Holder of Telgar who is a direct descendant of one of Tarvi Telgar's children. Since the name Salda resembles the name Sallah very much it is also possible that both had (some) Telgar blood flowing through their veins. One of them must be a direct descendant though, because in All the Weyrs of Pern Aivas assures Larad that he is a direct descendant of  Tarvi and Sallah Telgar. To this I immediately have to add that Aivas must have been guessing here (for once!). Because he could not have known the exact family relationship, since input stopped at 4 tenth-month 11, and he hadn’t yet scanned the Telgar Hold records (assuming that the genealogy was in them) when he made this statement; which is the main reason I have left open both lines of descant.
When reading Red Star Rising I perceive that both Lord and Lady Holder were vigorous and in the prime of their life, so I have arbitrarily assumed that both were in their early or mid-forties at the time, placing their Turns of birth about 215.

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The Lord and Lady Holder(s) of Telgar from the Sixth Pass are unknown and not mentioned in Moreta or Nerilka's Story.
The Telgar Bloodline might have suffered heavy losses due to the plague of 1550. When Masterhealer Capiam visited the Hold on 9 third-month 1550, at the very beginning of the epidemic, there were already 22 people dead [Mor].

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J-1

N.N., Lord Holder of Telgar Hold, probably born Telgar Hold c. 2350.
Married c. 2375 N.N., Lady Holder of Telgar Hold, probably born c. 2355.

J-11

N.N., Lord Holder of Telgar Hold, probably born Telgar Hold c. 2380.
Married c. 2405 N.N., Lady Holder of Telgar Hold, probably born c. 2385.

J-12

The placing of Petiron's father (or mother) as a brother (or sister) to Lord Tarathel's grandfather is arbitrary and based on the fact that, in The Masterharper of Pern, it is stated that Petiron has Telgar Blood and on the fact that he was probably born around 2420. I have "created" as many generations as were necessary to come up with a plausible way to explain Petiron's Telgar Blood. The explanation I have come up with makes Petiron a cousin of Lord Tarathel's father. I have chosen not to have Petiron to come from a lateral line of the Telgar Bloodline because of a remark about Petiron's Telgar Blood when Robinton is about to marry Kasia: "Melongel didn’t [object]. He already knew of the Telgar Blood connection of Petiron, and the fact that Merelan was a Mastersinger of Pern–wide prestige made no bar to an espousal" [MHoP].
It is known that Petiron had four brothers, none of which he liked, and of whom only one is known by name [MHoP/1:24]. Of course, he might also have had sisters.

J-111

J-121

Petiron came from Telgar Hold while still a young man, inclined to scholarship and therefore sponsored into the Harper Hall [MHoP/1:12, 22]. During his time at the Harper Hall it was said he was the best composer of the last two centuries [MHoP].
He met (and married) Merelan five Turns before their trip (with Robinton, who was not yet one Turn old at the time) to Pierie Hold, which trip therefore must have taken place in (early winter) 2453 [MHoP/1:12].
Petiron always studied and worked at the Harper Hall. Though he did visit other Holds often (mainly in connection with feasts and festivals) but he was never really posted while he was a Master (not counting the two times he stayed with Merelan at South Boll, in 2453 and 2467) before he himself requested the posting at Half Circle Sea Hold, in 2484, after his son Robinton had become Masterharper. From this we can deduce that he had been Hold Harper at Half Circle Seahold for 28 Turns, before his death in 2514.
Merelan was raised by an uncle and an aunt at Pierie Hold. When she was still a young girl, her parents died in one of the fierce autumnal storms that battered the western coastline [MHoP/1:17]. Her aunt Segoina (at Pierie Hold) gave her her first musical training [MHoP/1:17]. Merelan had had three miscarriages (in the early stages of pregnancy) prior to giving birth to Robinton in 2452 [MHoP/1:2] after which she and her husband were told that it would be very unwise to have more children.
Merelan was posted (at her own request and joined by her young son) at Benden Hold from late summer 2462 to summer 2463.

J-111.1

Tarathel probably had several more daughters beside the ones that are known. In Dragonquest a reference is made to "the women of Telgar", who were present at the wedding of Lord Asgenar of Lemos and Larad's half-sister Famira [D2/10:180]. Although it is certain that Fira is Larad's mother [RoP/prologue:17] it is also certain that Larad and Kylara had other half-sisters than Thella, who was the only child out of Tarathel's first marriage. Therefore Lord Tarathel must have had one or more (extra-marital) relationships, out of which at least some daughters were born, Famira among them. It is not likely that he married a third time since his wife Fira is still alive long after his death.

J-121.1

Robinton had (at least) two other relationships which, however, had more the character of an affair. First with Sitta of High Reaches Hold, and second (after Kasia's death) with Laela, a healer’s assistant in South Boll (eastern coastal area). From the book The Masterharper of Pern one can deduce that he had many short-term relationships in later Turns.
Kasia tragically lost her first fiancé, Merdine of Greystones Hold. Merdine was killed in a storm at sea off Nerat coast, half a month before their espousal. The fact that Merdine came from Greystones Hold is not mentioned in the book The Masterharper of Pern itself, but only in the accompanying Who’s who, in which he is wrongly mentioned as Kasia's first spouse [MHoP/who’s who:418].

J-111.12

Larad is eleven months younger than his half-sister Thella [RoP/prologue:16]. At the death of his father (c. 2492, but definitely prior to 2494) he was confirmed as Lord Holder. He was 15 Turns old at the time [MHoP].
Dulsay was "a quiet and brave little person", and one of the few ladies that "neither wept nor fainted" when they had been taken hostage by the Benden dragonriders and shown to their Lords (who were massing at the entrance to Benden Weyr) from the backs of flying dragons. Larad must have married Dulsay not long before he joined the march to Benden Weyr in eleventh-month 2507. When confronted with the fact that his Lady was taken hostage we can read in Dragonflight: "She was a new wife to him and much beloved" [D1/138]. This could imply that he had been married before but it is not likely. He had several sons at least [AtWoP/161].
Larad and his wife (Jissamy; though she is not mentioned by name) and the older children attended the Hatching 35th clutch by the Benden queen Ramoth in 2526 [AtWoP/11:240].

J-111.13

Kylara was Lord Larad of Telgar's only full-blood sister and thus a Telgar of the Blood [D2/62]. She had five children, some of them possibly fathered by T'bor [D2/63, 66, 70]. In Dragonquest her mother (Lady Fira) is described (by Kylara) as "a woman too early used and cast aside by Lord Telgar", which can't have been true though and which will probably have been Kylara's own, biased opinion. Kylara had "the amorous tendencies of a green dragon", she was one of the ten candidates from the same Search (2505) on which Lessa was discovered [D1/154].
A marriage to Brant of Igen was arranged for her originally, but did not took place because of the fact she was Searched [D1].

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