Family Sharing Calendar and Mac

I Am currently using a secondary iCloud account to share a calendar between my iPad, iPhone, and Mac and my wife's ipad, iPhone, and Mac. It works great.
Will moving to a shared calendar under Family Sharing provide anything new or better than what I have today?
I suspect that the shared calendar would not show up on our Mac's until Yosemite.
Thanks

No, this is working fine for me.
Are you signed into iCloud on all devices? Are you creating the events in an iCloud calendar? Double check that you're not using an "on my Mac" calendar to create appointments.

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