Ichat from laptop to desktop

I wish to ichat with my family when out of town from my macbook to my home desktop mac. is thgis possible on 1 account and or do I need to have two accounts,Currently i have 1 mac account with 1 email

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    Thank you for the question.  The attached article below provides multiple options for moving your iTunes library to a new computer. 
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