Need help with contacts

Hi, I've had contacts on my imac for years. then, about 4 years ago, I got an iphone... I help out for a while ;-)
I back my iphone and ipad up to my imac at home. So once I got my iphone, I created a group called iphone contacts as, at the time, I did not want to have EVERY contact I have on my phone. At the time, I felt like there were ones I'd want to keep at home, wanting to just have my family and friends on my phone. So when I backed up, I had a folder I called iphone contacts and that is what backed up to my phone.
Zip forward what feels like a technological millenium, iCloud is working and I'm using my phone much more than I did in the beginning and for more things.
Now I have much of my data backed up to iCloud, such as contacts, calenders, reminders, safari and notes. I don't have mail via iCloud as I use gmail and it does it for me basically.
So today, I got an address update for one of my contacts. I went into contacts on my iphone and edited it with the new snail mail address. Upon arriving home tonight, I decided to back up my iphone and looked at my contacts first, wanting to make sure the new change was there. It is not. I'm not sure why but in looking at my iphone's contacts, I find I have groups that were created due to previous ways of sorting and tracking data and now, with the cloud, it is just a bit confusing. in my contacts on my imac, I see the following categories and groups
at the very top
ALL Contacts (in blue)
On my Mac (in gray)
     All on my mac
iCloud (in gray)
     All iCloud
     Family
     iPhone Contacts
Smart Groups (in gray(
     Last Import
And on my iphone I see three groups
All Contacts
Family
iPhone Contacts
It seems that now that I am using iCloud to hold and sync my contacts, the use of groups is truly more about a mail list.. such as family, so if I want to email all my sibs, etc. So can I just delete all the groups and just have one pool of contacts, which I assume would be ALL CONTACTS, correct?
And then, as I see the need, I can create a group and drag the various contacts to that group?
And if I change info in a contact, will it show up in any group in which that contact is a member?
thanks for any help.
M

From Contacts Help. Type in smart groups:
Use Smart Groups
A Smart Group groups contacts automatically based on criteria you specify. For example, group all the members of your swim club by creating a Smart Group for contacts that have “swim” in the notes field. Then every time you enter “swim” in a contact’s notes field, the contact is added automatically to your swim club Smart Group. Smart Groups can include contacts from any account.
Open Contacts
HideCreate a Smart Group
Choose File > New Smart Group.
Enter a name for the Smart Group.
Specify the conditions.
Use the pop-up menus and entry field to set the conditions. Click Add to specify additional conditions.
If you include a group in a condition (by choosing “Card is member of” or “Card is not member of”), you can’t delete that group until you either change the condition or delete the Smart Group that uses the condition.
Click OK.
HideEdit a Smart Group
Select the group, and then choose Edit > Edit Smart Group.
HideRename a Smart Group
Select the group, and then click the group’s name.
Enter a new name, and then press Return.

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