Your Sims 2 Life

[Leafy]

I have one family, and 'theme' each branch of the family.

For example:

Lydia is the name of an ancient city.

Lydia's children would be named Alexandria, Athens, and Sebastian, other names that have to do with ancient cities.
Alexandria's children would be given girls/boys names that had crossed over to the other gender (Josephina, etc.).

And so on and so forth.

I try to keep each generation at about 20 sims, living in about 5-8 households. I have about 6 sims of each generation who will reproduce and have children, and the other 'spare' sims live with the childbearers/fathers, and help raise the children.