This is where you come in with...the backup family!
Clone your legacy family at whatever point your story is at, and just keep them for pictures. That way you can play your normal family, and then still have the backup so that you can stay at the same point in the story, and still be familiar with those sims. Of course this may lead to some awkward positions, like clones being invited to parties and having to crop them out of pictures, but trust me, it's worth it.
(I always give mine kinda funny wrong names, by story mode is called the Aristocraps)
let me know if this is helpful for anybody!!!
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