Hi guys!
After 15 years, I remembered that Strangetown exists. After studying all the families, I decided to play for the General Grunt family. His middle son grew up and moved away from his father along with his younger brother. While thinking about a possible story I would play out with these two, I came up with a certain Fullmetal Alchemist reference - the resurrection of their mother, Lyla Grunt.
I studied this issue as much as I could and realized that bringing Lyla back to life is about as good an idea as adding a Social Bunny to the family. But I still didn’t want to give up the story of my mother’s resurrection, so I came up with another way out - to create a copy of Lyla, settle her in the town, make her a relative of my entire family and kill her again.
And this brings up the main question: if I delete all family connections to the original Lyla and try to replace her in the family tree with a new copy, how much can I screw up the entire town?

No help for this playthrough, but this fixes the dead sims so they're resurrectable. https://meetmetotheriver.tumblr.com...rerelease-fixed

Roughly speaking, I can't do anything with the current Strangetown - I need to put a new town from this link, do I understand correctly?

Yes, there are a few different downloadable versions of Strangetown you can choose from, but they have fixed the data so that dead ancestors are fully resurrectable. I am playing this one right now: https://modthesims.info/d/641841/fi...trangetown.html