Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-546146-20131115195023/@comment-5370037-20131115220352

GothicNarcissus wrote: Anastasia Romanoff is a historical person and it wouldn't make sense for her to be transposed to the Enchanted Forest, so of course the two characters are unrelated.

Seders90, Ruby mentioned in The Price of Gold that Ashley had "a stepmother and two stepsisters she doesn't talk to", so Cinderella's stepsisters are supposedly both in Storybrooke at this time. Ashley probably never actually met her stepmother and stepsisters in Storybrooke. She only had memories of them so Anastasia could have easily not been in Storybrooke.