ICloud usage by family

My whole family is on one acct. everyone has two-three devices. How can I separate them all and they still keep their games and stuff?

One person can keep the existing account, and you can migrate everyong else's devices to separate accounts.  Assuming they want to keep a copy of the iCloud data and move it to thier new account, you would start by saving any photo stream photos that they wish to keep to thier camera roll (unless already there) by opening your my photo stream album, tapping Select, tapping the photos, tap the share icon (box with upward facing arrow), then tapping Save to Camera Roll.  If they are syncing notes with iCloud that they wish to keep, you'll need to open each of your notes and email them to them so they can later copy and paste the text into new notes created in thier new account.  Then go to Settings>iCloud, tap Delete Account (which only deletes it from this device, not from iCloud; the person keeping the account won't be effected by this), choose Keep on My iDevice and provide the password when prompted (if using iOS 7).  Then sign back in with a different Apple ID to create the new account and choose Merge to upload the data.  This would only have to be done on one device for each person.  They would then just delete the exising accont on their other devices, choose Delete from My iDevice (since the data is already in the new account), then sign into the new account.
Once everyone is on separate accounts, you can each go to icloud.com and delete any unwanted data from your account without effecting anyone else's devices.

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