A little good news...after poking around with my Library files... I was able to...
…get my old Selfacy file...back up and running...and ported over to a new empty world...which I managed to plunk down just enough lots to situate my families on. It's nice to see Karina and her mom, Greta again.
I've plugged the rest of the extended family in the other lots and pretty much the only non-service sims are Haruo and River's children and their families and relatives.
Greta's other son, Colin and the exchange student Masao ended up bald...so had to quickly find replacement hairs for them. So...well...c'est la vie. But at least the save is functional...now that the families are in a new world.
Yes, Braden (River and Haruo's son and the heir) and the rest are there too. They all survived the transfer. I don't know how, but the red hair runs in this family. Braden has black hair like his dad...and Greta has blonde hair and blue eyes so it must have jumped from River because both Karina and Colin have red hair from their grandma and Greta's eye-shape. I suspect Greta's family's heritage comes all the way from Aurora Skies as a Johansson. Who knows. Sims genetics is confusing.
Posting up a touching photo...it hasn't been long since Haruo and River passed...in this picture. Braden and Greta decided to move from Cape Garner because the memories were too much and the murders that took place that took River's and Haruo's lives were not something that they wanted to have to continually remind themselves of.
and Karina misses her grandpa and grandma.
Aidan and Mara's kid: Tania