Best Way to Organize Related Multiple Contacts

What's the Best Way to Organize Multiple Related Contacts?
It may be a Couple or a Family with common Address and Phone, but different names and birthdates.
    Then I try to put them all in one contact listing.
It may be a Large Business where you want to keep track of information about
a dozen different people's address, phone, depart, title, email etc. But It still
would be nice to be able to pull up one entry with all the business's information.
   At some point, it will be necessary, I suppose to split the info into multiple
   seperate contacts. When?
Is there a better way to do this?
Thanks, Jim Baranski

JimBaranski wrote:
What's the Best Way to Organize Multiple Related Contacts?
Use Groups.
It may be a Couple or a Family with common Address and Phone, but different names and birthdates.
Then I try to put them all in one contact listing.
IMHO, not a good idea. Best to keep to one person, one card.
It may be a Large Business where you want to keep track of information about
a dozen different people's address, phone, depart, title, email etc. But It still
would be nice to be able to pull up one entry with all the business's information.
Separate cards for each person; one group (or smart group, which is a fancy name for a saved search) for the Large Business. It won't be quite the way you want it (there's no "one entry" with all the info), but it's close enough for rock'n'roll.

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