Extended Famiy Tree?

I don't know what it shows on the family tree but any child of a sibling of the parent is a cousin. Here's a recent capture of the family tree in my active save and at a glance I can see who are cousins.
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50396902742_637684e203_o.jpg

You will be able to see more as the generations progress. The only way you could see it the way you want is if Connor and Jared had parents. I guess it just means you need to be vigilant in clicking on siblings to see what's happening in their lives. I use Nraas SP and see (and read) all notifications of what's happening in my town so know of every birth, relationship, death, etc.

I should get screen captures of my entire family tree. What I showed you is just the branch that contains the heirs :D

@Mikezumi lol i read all of them, they go away on their own.. I'm sure you could close them but i dont like to in case i wanna reread something

I read and close mine as soon as they come up. It also helps that I give all sims in the town birthday makeovers (you'll not see any badly dressed/coifed sims in my town) so know who's who at all times.

@Mikezumi also im sure your family tree is hugeeeee, id love to see it if you get a moment hahaha

@Mikezumi Haha! Love that. I dont give sims makeovers I want them to carry genetics and stuff as best as possible and as for clothing I only change it on sims in my family or that I want in my family if its god awful. I dont have the patience to make over toddlers or kids cause theyre in that life stage for so short. maybe teens or young adults i will. i got the most adorable clothing for babies though omgggg

I don't change genetics! I only change hair/clothes/makeup.

Nrass - Master Controller - Basic - Family Tree

It will show you broader family tree than the family tree button accessed in the UI

But it might not show your cousin.

"Chi5678;c-17683184" wrote:
@Karritz oh that’s smart to just make them as a ghost. Do I have to place them in a house? I’d rather them not really exist in game other than just to connect the family tree

When I did it I made 6 ghosts to add another generation above.

I was clueless about what to do with them. I put them in a house and after a couple of days they all vanished and I found their tombstones in the mausoleum. I got them out of that and put them on the ground in the cemetery. It was a few years ago now so I don't remember all that happened clearly now.

I have copies of just about every sim I ever made backed up so I have a huge resource to draw upon if I want to add extra sims to a game. I've been making and backing up my sims since I started playing the game in June 2009 so I have a huge lot of backed up sims.

The thing that happened to get me to want to make ghosts to add to a family tree was I found I had placed two different households from my library into a game and one of my sims was in both households. I didn't want to get rid of her in either household so I decided to turn her two versions into cousins. So I made two pairs of ghosts as the parents of each version and then another pair of ghosts to be the cousins shared grandparents.

With Sims 3 you always have to have a sim in the game, either living or dead, who can join family trees together. Everyone in a family tree has to trace their ancestry back to at least one common sim.