I've only done it once using Jon's Decendants method. I had a very similar experience to the first one you describe. I remember Jennail and Jennicor taking turn slapping Keirnan while Nylisst and Kvornon were making out, the kids embarrassed by the whole thing.
I actually remember Jon had the want to resurrect everyone EXCEPT Jennicor as well.
Hope that helps.

I didn't resurrect them, I nabbed them from maxis_taste but I have noticed the odd family dynamics. Jennicor and Jennail stalk Kiernan and fight him constantly. Also Jennail isn't in love with Kvornan and Nyllisit doesn't love Kiernan.

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When I resurrected them Jennail and Kiernan were immediately all over each other, but Nyllissit hates Kvornan, but I think he had a decent relationship score towards her.

I can't remember who I had resurrect who, so I don't know if that relationship boost had anything to do with it.

When I resurrected them in my game Rainelle seems to have had some sort of secret affair with Kiernan Tricou, which makes no sense because I'm pretty sure he was already dead when she moved into the HoFT. And this is using meetme2theriver's fixed neighbourhood templates. It's very confusing!

And everyone hates Kiernan, especially Jennail. They're regularly having punch-ups. Other than that, everyone is best friends and all dandy (thanks to the Resurrect-O-Nomitron, I think).

I moved a sim in that house once, resurrected the kids first and all was fine. Then I resurrected the rest. I don't remember what Nylissit and the 2nd generation men were doing because Jennicor and Jon Smith were constantly making out and Jennail would start shouting matches with Gvaudoin and Fricorith would run off and cry. I don't know if it was the cleaned templates that did it (I used SaraMK's) or if that was just bound to happen. Or was it InSim's fault? Or was it the fact the sim I moved in there was a teenager? Dunno. But it seems like the only ones I found that got along were the grandkids.

In my game - when I resurrected them to make-over the house, Gvaudoin became enemies with Jennicor immediately after being resurrected...her grandmother only tried to give her a hug! XD

Jon Smith
Aquarius Family
Character: Neatness: 2 Outgoing: 5 Active: 5 Playful: 6 Nice: 7
Jennicor 11/14 Wife
Jennail 72/76 Daughter
Fricorith 84/92 Grandson
Kvornan 96/84 Son-in-Law
Nylissit 84/96 Daughter
Kiernan 88/96 Son-in-Law
Gvaudoin 88/100 Granddaughter

Jennicor
Aquarius Pleasure
Character: Neatness: 2 Outgoing: 5 Active: 5 Playful: 7 Nice: 6
Jon Smith 14/10 Husband
Jennail 72/68 Daughter
Fricorith 84/88 Grandson
Kvornan 76/92 Son-in-Law
Nylissit 32/36 Daughter
Kiernan -44/-44 Son-in-Law
Gvaudoin 40/-80 Granddaughter

Jennail
Cancer Fortune
Character: Neatness: 5 Outgoing: 5 Active: 5 Playful: 5 Nice: 5
Fricorith 84/92 Son
Nylissit 8/16 Sister
Kvornan 38/5 Husband
Gvaudoin -8/-36 Niece
Kiernan -32/-60 Brother-in-Law
Jennicor 84/68 Mother
Jon Smith 88/100 Father

Kvornan
Cancer Pleasure
Character: Neatness: 5 Outgoing: 5 Active: 5 Playful: 5 Nice: 5
Fricorith 100/100 Son
Nylissit 40/44 Sister-in-Law
Jennail 27/10 Wife
Gvaudoin 20/-36 Niece
Kiernan 16/4
Jennicor 80/76 Mother-in-Law
Jon Smith 80/72 Father-in-Law

Fricorith
Capricorn Popularity
Character: Neatness: 7 Outgoing: 3 Active: 3 Playful: 6 Nice: 6
Jennail 100/88 Mother
Nylissit 48/45 Aunt
Kvornan 88/100 Father
Gvaudoin 96/100 Cousin
Kiernan 34/19 Uncle
Jennicor 100/100 Grandmother
Jon Smith 100/100 Grandfather

Nylissit
Scorpio Popularity
Character: Neatness: 8 Outgoing: 5 Active: 5 Playful: 4 Nice: 3
Fricorith 14/15 Nephew
Jennail 30/24 Sister
Kvornan 16/2 Brother-in-Law
Gvaudoin 100/100 Daughter
Kiernan 45/13 Husband
Jennicor 38/20 Mother
Jon Smith 36/29 Father

Kiernan
Aquarius Romance
Character: Neatness: 3 Outgoing: 5 Active: 5 Playful: 6 Nice: 6
Fricorith 36/36 Nephew
Jennail 40/13 Sister-in-Law
Kvornan 28/24
Gvaudoin 48/38 Daughter
Nylissit 13/10 Wife
Jennicor 100/88 Mother-in-Law
Jon Smith 32/24 Father-in-Law

Gvaudoin
Scorpio Fortune
Character: Neatness: 7 Outgoing: 6 Active: 6 Playful: 3 Nice: 3
Jennail -12/-68 Aunt
Nylissit 100/0 Mother
Kvornan 76/-8 Uncle
Fricorith 76/60 Cousin
Kiernan 44/-52 Father
Jennicor -4/-68 Grandmother
Jon Smith 100/-52 Grandfather

For what it's worth - I have not and do not intend to resurrect the Tricous, but I am using the Tricou descendants. When I look in their family trees in the game, they all have two dead parents - Jon Smith and some apparently random dead townie. When I look in the Family Ties in SimPE, however, they only show Parent A, Jon Smith. This is not just a matter of them being bastards, as one of my Tricous has carried on the family tradition and had a bastard, whose Parent B shows up in SimPE.

I've always figured that the Tricou family was the result of playtesting and experimentation during development that got left in either from rushed deadlines, sentimentality (you just know Jon Smith Tricou was some playtester's favorite sim ever!), or because they thought it would be interesting for the audience - the last of which certainly is the case.

I'm not sure why the Tricou relationships seem to be different everytime the family is played. I've played with them a couple of times and it always slightly different, although Gvaudoin always has very low lifetime relationship scores with everyone except Fricorith, Jennail always hates Kiernan and Jennicor and Kvornan are always attracted to one another. Tis strange. :)

I wouldn't know. I mess with their memories and relationships in SimPE to fit my story, and all I remember is that everyone except for Fricorith, Jon and Nyllisit hated both Gvaudoin and Kiernan. EA may have intended for the two to be vampires, and the three that don't hate them either like it or they don't care. In my Sims Story they're all going to be vampires (and die in a different order). As for the descendants, I really don't want to grow up Knut Sims/Orion Teens/Whatever-you-call-him because of his borky facial template, though my story spans over a long time (like, 700 years if you count flashbacks) so I... What the hell am I going on about? Well, back on topic, it's basic math: Nearly everone hates Kiernan and Gvaudoin.

I've created a sim named Dr. Taylor Mickwell whos job was to ressurect sims from the dead using the ressurectonomotron. I had on a mailbox cheat and made him know every person in town, including dead people. I resurrected the Tricous first because they seemed to have no living relatives and I wanted to see who they were. Everyone seemed to have a mutual relationship. Their memories were only everyone dying and them inheriting money from either Jon Smith or a dog. After I moved them out I resurrected the Neengia person. I found their story of living downtown and looked in the house of fallen trees and the gothier green lawns place, in the house was the teens and the neengia persons grave which made me wonder what had happened, I was going to just move them back in there as a big happy family, but there is something strange that doesn't add up about it all.