Wildly Excited About Game Genetics! Pictures included

GalacticGal

I have been spending a great deal of time scouring the internet and also the uploaded images from others over at Ancestry.com. What I am looking for, pretty much in vain, is what my sixth great-grandmother may have looked like. Her husband, my sixth great-grandfather made quite a name for himself, so his portraits can be found. Unfortunately, she died long before this major leap of his into the limelight. Although she was aware of his growing fame, nonetheless.

So, I have taken a slightly different tact. I started looking for images of her children. She gave birth to five sons and five daughters before she passed away. I've been fortunate to find images of two of her sons. The older of the two boys (second son in the birth order) and now today the third son. This third son was his father's namesake, as in Jr. bearing his father's full name. It is also said that he was small and blond (which is how his mother is described). Before I found this image, however, I took the Sim I'd made of his father and made a son. Upon making him a YA, I could compare this Sim to the image I had of Major James. He looks very much like his father. On a whim, I then created his mother using the game genetics. I did this at least three times, choosing between the three slightly different looking female Sims. I settled on the third one, as it happened.

Today, as I stated earlier, I found an image of their third son. He doesn't look as much like his father as his older brother does. I got all excited. I now had 'something' to go off of. When I went back into my game (for the purpose of possibly recreating this image into a Sim using game genetics). I took a good hard look at the mother I had chosen previously. I was simply gob-smacked. The nose was right, and so were the eyes and the shape of her face! Let me know what you think and do you agree? Or am I just crazy? LOL

Jean Xavier, the father: from a portrait in his younger years:


Jean Xavier the father as a Sim:


Image of second son, Major James Sevier:

image of Major John Sevier, Jr. :


Could this be what their mother may have looked like?

zorba2357

It's interesting. Imagine yourself being made into a sim by your future great great grandson or whatever! Definitely an odd thought. Kind-of flattering though. I sometimes think about that, like back then there may be NO photo of a person. Farther back there were only painted portraits. And that is only if you were famous or wealthy enough to pay an artist to paint your portrait.

GalacticGal

Thank you so much for the response!

This all started when we got the Demo. A Gallery challenge was given to recreate an historical figure. I had a much older portrait of this, my sixth great-grandfather, but we could only create YAs in the Demo, if memory serves. So, I did my best to CAS him. Some time after the fact, I came across this younger portrait of him. I went back into CAS and tweaked my original, just a tad. It bothers me a lot that his first wife, my sixth great-grandmother, has been all but forgotten in the annals of time. She did more to help shape Jean into the man he became, giving new meaning to "behind every great man, there's a woman." They were married very young. She fifteen and he just sixteen. She died shortly after giving birth to their tenth child, at the tender age of thirty-four, having given Jean nineteen years of her life. She succumbed to complications of childbirth during a Cherokee uprising. It was sad, really. Jean was born in 1745 and Sarah Jane Hawkins, his first wife was born in 1746. No pictures. He had already made a bit of a name for himself in her time, garnering the nickname of "Nolichucky Jack". Well-respected, a great military tactician, hundreds would come out to his call. He served under George Washington during the Revolutionary War and Lord Dunsmore in the militia. He was one of the colonels in charge during the Battle of Kings Mountain, which was a pivotal battle in the Revolutionary War, in the South. He's the Founder and was the very first Governor of the state of Tennessee. Served in the very first Congress of the newly formed United States. If you look up John Sevier, you'll find him. Just for the record, it's pronounced like the English adjective, severe.

MegandtheMoon

What a cool thread! I can see a lot of resemblances between the mother Sim you created and the photos of the husband and sons.

I seriously love the genetics in this game! What a great way to display this feature of the game

zorba2357

She Definitely resembles her son! Or he resembles her. You did a really good job. It reminds me a little of those TV shows (yes I've watched too many!) where a forensic artist or specialist takes the skull of a dead person and recreates from computer and clay what they think the person may have looked like. It's used for cold case murder investigations and "Jane Doe's". Sorry, I don't know why it reminded me of that. I really have watched too many of those shows!

zorba2357

It is hard to imagine marrying at 15, having 10 babies, and dying at 34. Childbirth was a leading cause of death until recent times. Of course, infant and child mortality was much higher also.