Citations:great-grandmother

Singular, hyphenated

 * 1835, Robert Chambers, A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen, volume 2, page 329:
 * His great-grandmother was Janet Forbes, of the family of Corsindy, also descended from lord Forbes.
 * 2011, Howard Fast, Clarkton, page 4:
 * It is a fact, but I, for one, am not afraid of cliches, of homilies, of the good words that my grandmother and my great-grandmother spoke on this old and hallowed New England soil; I am not sophisticated, and I say, thank God for that.

Singular, non-hyphenated

 * 2011, Rhandy Barnett, The Devil Rode Shotgun, page 1:
 * My great grandmother, his wife rode out and found him first.

Plural, hyphenated

 * 2012, Queen Afua, Sacred Woman: A Guide to Healing the Feminine Body, Mind, and Spirit, page 127:
 * Our grandmothers and great-grandmothers made quilts in a private mind.

Plural, non-hyphenated

 * 2009, Gale Holtz Golden, In the Grip of Desire: The Power of Sexual Secrets, page 138:
 * These women were the great grandmothers of the suffragettes (Gotwald & Golden, 1981).

Multiple "greats"

 * Two "greats".


 * 1898, Alexandre Dumas, La Comtesse de Charny, volume 1, page 45:
 * Going back from Louis Fifteenth to Henry Fourth and Marie de Medicis, we find Henry Fourth to be five times the great-great-grandfather of Louis Fifteenth, and Marie de Medicis his great-great-grandmother through five different channels.


 * Three "greats".


 * 2013, Kenneth A. Hordge, Generations, page 34:
 * All I know about my great-great-great grandmother Emma is that she and her husband Edward shared a home with her daughter Cecelia and her husband James and their children in 1880.


 * Four "greats".


 * 2004, Lalita Tamedy, "A Journey on Cane River", in Chicken Soup for the African American Soul, page 5:
 * In a collection of ten thousand unindexed local records written in badly preserved Creole French, she found the bill of sale for my great-great-great-great-grandmother Elisabeth, who was sold in 1850 in Cane River, Louisiana, for eight hundred dollars.


 * Five "greats".


 * 2009, Frank Delaney, Ireland: A Novel, page 321:
 * The father of my great-great-great-great-great-grandmother was watching this, and he said to his lovely daughter, Ann, 'Go out there and ask that man if he's gone mad, pulling down the wall.'


 * Six "greats".


 * 1993, Witold Gombrowicz, Jan Kott, Diary, volume 3, page 169:
 * Michal Kazimierz's father, Jerzy, was married to Dorota Jawoyszowna (this then is my great-great-great-great-great-great-grandmother).
 * 2010, John G. Azzi, Dialogues of the World of Nature, page 44:
 * My Great, great, great, great, great, great, Grandmother, was also called Viola.


 * Seven "greats".


 * 1993, Charles William Coulter, The Charles Coulter Ancestry, page iii:
 * Comfort would be my Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great Grandmother and she married Perry Leatherbury.
 * 2000, Naim Attallah, Dialogues, page 35:
 * Feeling that Abraham was my great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather and Sarah was my great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandmother, and that it's my family.


 * Eight "greats".


 * 1994, Dennis Rainey, David Boehi, Tribute, page 59:
 * It's about his great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great-grandmother and the legacy she left her descendants: Catharine duBois, my great-great grandmother to the eighth great, never heard of crisis management.
 * 2010, Kristina A. Larson, Farley's Quest, page 119:
 * “What?” cried Dagmar. “You mean to tell me you're going to use my great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandmother's poultice on that ne'er-do-well of a rodent?”


 * Nine "greats".


 * 2011, Amanda Kenney, Dragon's Heart, page 66:
 * Estra is my great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandmother. Or something like that, Rina thought.


 * Ten "greats".


 * 2005, David Plante, American Ghosts, page 261:
 * I was puzzled that Elisabeth, as I had known her, was registered as Isabelle, and in her maiden name, but she had to be my great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandmother because she was the wife of my great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather.