I like all the grandparents, if only for the back stories you can make up for them. (But yeah, the character files suck, especially if they're useless for resurrecting.)

Businesses are better when you sell big-ticket items. I'd love to try a car dealership some day, and I have plans for Malcolm Landgraab to open an art gallery (he'll be the rich Saatchi-type art patron in my sims world).

(I just noticed the connection with both of those names having that double A too... pretty cool.)