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 Organizing a family association or organization is a great way to bring people together to accumulate, coordinate, learn,&nbsp;preserve&nbsp;and publicize genealogical and historical information&nbsp;among&nbsp;related family&nbsp;members.
-Some families may wish&nbsp;to organize around a husband and wife and&nbsp;their descendants. Others, like the&nbsp;[http://www.broughfamily.org/ Brough Family Organization]&nbsp;and [http://www.osmondfamily.org Osmond Family Organization],&nbsp;may decide on a much larger&nbsp;agenda (see below).&nbsp;
+Family associations can be organized on different levels, such as ''immediate families''--which include a husband and wife and their descendants; ''grandparent families''--which include the descendants of siblings; and ''ancestral families''--which include the descendants of an earlier common progenitor's couple.  Other family associations, like the&nbsp;[http://www.broughfamily.org/ Brough Family Organization]&nbsp;and [http://www.osmondfamily.org Osmond Family Organization],&nbsp;may include ancestral families along with individuals who share a common surname (see below).&nbsp;
 A list of well-known [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Mormon_family_organizations Mormon Family Organizations] is posted in Wikipedia, and two of these organizations--the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belnap_Family_Organization Belnap Family Organization] and the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brough_Family_Organization Brough Family Organization][http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belnap_Family_Organization --have their own documented articles in&nbsp;Wikipedia].