"Fambly" means family. LOL!
I noticed the "no sims" thing myself, but not in CAS. When I uninstalled/reinstalled everything and only had awesomemod and no other CC or mods I had no sims in the town. Meaning I was starting a brand new game with no other saved games in, when it took me to the town and usually there are three options but the choose a household option was not there. Because there was no families in the town. Once I went into CAS, created a sim and plopped them in the neighborhood, or chose a family from the bin, then everything was normal and there were families in most of the lots. But initialy going in the town seemed empty. But I didn't think it was a big deal and since after actually playing the town was full like normal I just ignored the glitch.
I hope all that makes sense. Just trying to help.