I am new to this and I had a few questions.
When do they go to the next generation and how?

You get the option of moving to a new generation once one of your adults passes away AND they have previously had children. No children to take over the house, game over.

To quote LadyCFII: "If you tap the "Family" button on the main screen, you will be taken to the family tree, where you should see a button at the top labeled "New Generation." Tapping that button will take you to the screens where you can select the child who will inherit the house and bank account."

The main screen refers to the screen that is open when you are playing the game.

I have to say thankyou very much for your help.
See my family has had 6 kids and they have all gone off to college now it is just the two of my first people. They are at the ages of 57 and 56 and I have read on here that they die around the age of 60.

The ages the adults die can vary alot. I have had adults die when they were only 57 and 58 years old. Then I have had adults live to be 67 and 68 years old. My cousin had one of her adults actually make it to age 70! So don't be surprised if your adiuults live past the age of 60!

See I wasn't sure if they would live past the age of 65. Thankyou for clearing that up for me.

No problem JackieO!! Glad to be of help.

Okay it happened today I came home from school and checked on my people and well they were laying in the bed side by side. It was sort of sad cause they had been married for a long time I just didn't get to see how old they were when they died.

JackieO,

I agree. It's a shame we can't tell how old they were. I hope the transition to the next generation went smoothly.

It went by pretty smoothly and now my peeps have had twin boys after many many tries.

there is one way to find that out if you have 2 the same age and if only one dies you will now how old that person was.
there might be more but i don't now them

If I remember correctly (someone please correct me if I am wrong, thx), our people age 1 year in approximately 3-1/2 hrs of our time, or approximately 7 years in 24 of our hours.

If you remember how old a person was when you last saw them alive, then calculate how long it was since then, you can figure roughly how old they were when they died. Of course, since you don't know how long they have been lying in repose, you can't know exactly, but can probably narrow their actual age at death down to within a year or two.

Hope this helps.

I think you're right. The problem is remembering how old they were when you last saw them. Usually (with five families on the go at the same time) the best I can manage is "in their 50s" or "in their 60s". I'm away at work for around eleven hours a day and it's difficult to remember. I suppose I could note down the ages of the older folks in the evening and morning to arrive at a more accurate figure, but that's a little like hard work.

I agree with Arnie because I am at school for 8 hours in a day and it would be to much work to calculate all that stuff.

I agree. Like on the family page when you click on the person's head and it gives the info it should include when they were 'born' and when they 'died' and what age they were when they died.

That is a GREAT idea!! Hopefully they will do something like that for the 2nd game.

Here's a photo detail from one of my families where the wife is 70 years old. Unfortunately, I do not know how old she was when she died as I came to feed her breakfast the next morning only to find her in repose and waving goodbye. I'm guessing she was either 72 or 73 years old as she would have aged that much during the night. It says she is unmarried because her husband passed away first at around age 67.

I thought that I should update I have made it to the 5th generation on my very first fam.