I was looking for ways to keep track of my villagers in order to minimize [censored], and I found this free family tree creator. It's really simple and very useful. Enjoy!

MyHeritage Free Family Tree Maker

Hello! I actually started using this for my new village a few days ago, and it's making me a bit obsessive. Better than last summer, when I did one by hand for my VV2 village. I don't really mind about the thing I think was censored, but it has inspired me to have an experiment in my new village for law-abiding (I'm in VA, so it will be VA law) mating, LOL, to see if it really is possible.

I used my first chief, Chief Adrian, for the date of birth aspect, since he was the oldest: His birth was year 0, and everyone elses was relative to that (ie, he was 24 when the village began, so the 21 year old was born in year 3). Chief Adrian years! :). The Family Tree software keeps warning me about the very old age of my people :P.

Best Wishes,

Bella

I have to add...I just looked up the law here, and it allows cousins to marry - even first cousins! Eew. :oNot that I'm judging, cough. Still though. Eew.

So I will be using my own law: only 3rd cousins or further removed allowed, no other type of blood relatives for my experimental village.

the law allows cousins cause the gene pool is so diversified now.

Still seems too closely related but *shrug* to each his/her own.

I wanted to say Thank You for posting this free family tree creator. It has renewed my interest in VV3. I had a tribe of 17 villagers on pause for a month now and was able to construct family trees and marriages for the tribe. I wish VV had built-in family trees.

Um . . . I don't think that's it. The diversity of your genes doesn't matter much; only the possible diversity between your genes and your cousin's genes. Your cousin is still a parent's sibling's offspring; they are no further from you genetically than they would have been 100 years ago.

The real reason, I think, is decaying morality. Morality has been changing in recent decades, into something a person 100 years ago would have been horrified at. This is probably a more likely reason why many things that would have been out of the question twenty or fifty years ago are not only legal, but considered morally defensible these days.

That being said . . . . yuck.

I agree, Lurkily.