How to handle Multiple devices in our family,

Hi all, I need help. I do not know what to do now that I have many I devices in our family. I have three iPhones, an iPod, iPad, Apple TV
and iMac. Right now, all the devices are set up on one Apple ID, except for a new iPhone that has not been set up yet.
What is the best way to deal with this situation? I would like to be able to use the Find IPhone on any device to find the other. I would also like each device to be able to use face time and iChat independently. Is it possible? 
I was told to set up separate ICloud  accounts, but since the devices are assigned to an apple ID already? Is that possible? Sorry about being so naive.
Thanks for any advice or insight you can offer!

You're welcome.  And you are correct, an iCloud account is an Apple ID; but you can still migrate your devices to their own account even if they are currently sharing a single account.
One person's device(s) can keep the current account.  Decide who will be migrating to a new account.  On their devices, go to Settings>iCloud, scroll to the bottom and tap Delete Account.  (This will only delete the account from the device, not from iCloud.  The device[s] that will be keeping the account will not be effected by this.)  When prompted about what to do with the iCloud data, be sure to select Keep On My [iDevice].  Next, set up a new iCloud account using a different Apple ID (if you don't have one, tap Get a Free Apple ID at the bottom)*.  Then turn iCloud data syncing for contacts, etc. back to On, and when prompted about merging with iCloud, choose Merge.  This will upload the data to the new account.
When you're done, if you have any data in the accounts that you don't want you will then have to go to icloud.com on your computer and sign into each iCloud account separately and manually delete it from each account.
* Each Apple ID will need a separate non-Apple email address.  If you don't have these you can get free email accounts from gmail.  Apple will send a verification email to the account you provide.  You will have to click on the Verify Now link to verify the account and ID, after which you can use it to set up the iCloud account.
Finally, if you are sharing the same ID for iMessage, on these other devices go to Settings>Messages>Send & Receive, tap the ID, sign out, then sign back in with their new ID (so each persons device[s] are using a separate ID).  For FaceTime, do the same thing in Settings>FaceTime.

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