I have often thought about doin that however I don't change their names and heres why. When I came upon the ugliest little villager in VV1, I was going to name him oogly. Feeling bad about this I gave him my sons name instead. Stragely enough I became rather attached to my villager and when he died I was a little crushed. Don't name them after my kids any more should have stuck with oogly. Goddessjuno

In VV2 when the kids are 2 and start running around on their own, go onto the details screen and where their picture is- above left will be a picture of a little man and above their head to the right will be a little woman, hover the cursor over them and in the long bar at the bottom of the screen it will say daughter of 'Fred' and daughter of 'Wilma'

Hi All! I am also a family tree building freak! I have even found a site that lets me do it on line... much less confusing than 12 pieces of paper... just go to tribal pages dot com (kind of appropriate really!)

Hey thank you for the information; I am heading to that site now to check it out. It certainly would help organize our little addiction much easier..I certainly have loved hearing from everyone and all your hints and support!!!

I've officially given up renaming my villagers (unless they have really ugly names). I can't think of any more names to give them! I started off naming everyone after characters on the Buffy and Angel shows, but then I got a whole bunch of redheads and you can't name everyone Willow and Oz. So now I take em as they come! Welcome to the tribe baby Zen!

Thank you rwextreme, I did finally notice that myself, but thank you anyway. I wish that would continue until they die. I have never written down the family tree and I think I have bred brother and sister together probably more than once since after a certain age, you no longer see the parents in the background and my entire village ended up being redheaded. I couldn't help that though, I actually started with 2 blond females, 4 redheaded males and one brown haired male and every baby born was a redhead! And since the only female old enough to breed was a blond and the only male old enough to breed was brown haired, you would think I would have gotten some blonds and brunettes, wouldn't you? But no, nothing but redheads. I have been thinking about changing the name of my village to Scotland, LOL!

i dont do that