Looking for extracted sims from Maxis family trees

[strangetomato]

Does anyone know where I might be able to find a download of some of the Maxis characters from the family trees, specifically the anscestors of the Caliente family? It is possible to extract these, right? I know I can't ressurect them, and they're blacked out in SimPE, so that makes me wary of trying to extract them.

I could recreate the sim in question, but I'd love to see the actual character in-game.

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[simplode.livejournal.com]

I have cloned Sims from family trees before using SimPE and then recreated them in CAS with their original personality points. They're not the same sims, you understand, but basically different people who look just like the old ones.

Specifically, I've extracted Skip Broke and Bella Goth from Pleasantview. I'm sure it would work for the Caliente sisters' relatives too.

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

How did you clone them? They don't show up in sim surgery for me.

[simplode.livejournal.com]

Huh. Deceased sims show up in mine, all sims in alpha order by first name. I'm not in game at the moment -- do you have a list of names I can look for?

ETA: Never mind, I looked in the game and found them and Lo! and Behold! they are not in my Sim Surgery either. Which is wacky, because there are in fact some others (such as at least one Crumplebottom and a couple Goths) who do appear. Maybe these are the ones that are ghosts? Although I've never seen either Skip Broke or Bella Goth haunt Pleasantview. Hmm....I'm stumped. Sorry!

ETA More: Well! Further purusal of the Sim Browser shows that the Caliente ancestors have no character data and are unlinked. I am forced to the conclusion that, for whatever reason, some ancestral characters are only placeholders in family trees without the actual character data that would allow them to be properly cloned. I'm not sure how Maxis chose which would have character data and which wouldn't, but there you have it.

So if these folks show up in simgaroop's list of sims available above, I haven't the foggiest notion how they did it.

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

That's how it is for me too. I can access their profiles in the sim browser, even though they're blacked out, but not in sim surgery.

I tried to get the sim I wanted from simgaroop's link, but it wasn't working for me. In the end, I recreated those sims using their descendants and the pacifier in CAS. They'll serve the purpose, and maybe even better, since they'll actually resemble the families they relate to. They're MY sims now too, which is cool.