The Major Chords is a club that was organized by Ariel Simpoke that glued the major sims together. Ariel took over the club from another Sim (which I believe was her brother Walter) and kicked everyone out and had her friends joined.  It was the first club that I really got into.  There eight members to the club and are shown in this series of images taken at Alexandrea Hanks home during a club meeting.
The club outfit was a bit on the skimpy side, since when the club was formed they were all young adults and seem appropriate. The main activity was to dance and play musical instruments. Mostly what they did was dance during their meetings, but it gave ample time to socialize and keep their friendship levels up. These are the main sims that are played, though there are other groups in town.

Leanna Hanks though not a original Sim family comes from the Hanks matriarch family line. She is married to Jorge Holiday and has two children, a daughter named Kiley and a son named Caleb. She lives in the Hanks Legacy house which is located in Newcrest; a small but adequate Sim Home that contains most of the items her family line has acquired over time.
Stacy Holiday is the current matriarch of one of the Holiday family lines. She is married to another Holiday name Valentin, though they are not cousins. They have two children, a son named Chandler and a daughter name Julissa. Stacy maintains the Holiday Legacy house in Newcrest.

Juanita is the youngest of the group and is the matriarch of the second Holiday family line. She is married to Ariel’s brother Walter and has one child, a daughter named Olivia. Juanita and Walter’s wedding party was a recorded in pictures and will be shown at a later time.

There are two groups of Sims that differ in age and Juanita is a bridge between these two groups. This group contains the original Sims ancestry line comes from the base game of Sims, the Patels and Holidays, while the second group comes from the Windenburg Sims, the Bjergen’s, Fyres’, and Villarreal’s.

Greta Patel and Tamika Patel are sisters. There are three Patel families in town, with the other being Leah Patel. This gives the Patel’s a dominating hold on the town at this time. Greta has two son’s, Rex and Darin and live in Willow Creek. She is married to Watson Holiday.

Tamika is married to Santiago Patel and has two daughters, Jayden and Marisol. She lives in Oasis Springs in the second Patel Legacy House. She is the oldest of this group.

Alexandrea Hanks, is a single mother and is Leanna’s sister. Her daughter, Briana, lives with her in the house that is shown in these images. She left Briana’s father do to irreconcilable differences (he didn’t like children) and has brought up Briana on her own while working full time as a musician. The two live comfortably in their home in Willow Creek. Alex also became a guardian to a teenager named Katelin, who seconds as a baby sitter to Brianna while she works the late nights in her musician job.  Brianna will start a kids club that contains 8  children of the Major Chords.

Leah Patel is a direct ancestor to Amy Zoe Patel and lives in the Patel Legacy house in Willow Creek. Married to Caiden Lehman (a homeless sim), the two have two children, a daughter Kristyn and a son Wesley. The Patel Legacy house is fully stocked with items awarded to the Patel family line, one of which was a scientists who obtained all the experimental equipment from the labs. Leah though is a outdoors type and therefore maintains the garden located at the legacy house.

Having groups such as this is a good way to keep tabs of everyone in town. In this case I was playing Alex in getting Briana up in grades up until Briana became a teenager. Major Chords I believe is an existing club that came with the expansion and it works out well with these group of legacy Sims.

Alex and Dianna get together outside to gossip a bit. This offered a good time for Alex to build up their friendship. There are only a few ‘enemies’ in town, most of everyone gets along with with each other.

This Genealogy tree shows the five generations of the Holidays with Summer Holiday at the top. There are two current lines that have survived to the fifth generation, Stacey’s and Juanita’s.

This is the Patel Genealogy tree showing it’s five generation from Leah and four from Greta and Tamika. Breal gave birth to Staci late in her adult life. Staci was therefore cared for by a guardian named Kaylyn Goins. It is interesting that Martina Goins shown in this tree is her granddaughter.

Genealogy trees are fascinating to look at.

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