Setting Up A Contact Distribution List of Family Members for Text Messaging

Friends,
Is it possible to set up a distribution list of my family contacts?  I have several brothers and sisters and would like to send the same text message to all of them at once.  Can I key all of their phone numbers into one heading such as "family" and then use that as my "phone" number in the TO field?
Please let me know if this is possible and if so, how do I do it?
Thanks for your help.
Doug Talbott Jr.

You can send to multiple people but you can not save them as a group in the stock app but there is a number of apps on market that can do this.Try
Handcent
http://www.handcent.com/
TextPlus
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.gogii.textplus&feature=search_result
Also check here...
http://www.androidzoom.com/android_applications/send+group+sms

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