Re: get FamilySymbol from Family

I can think of two different ways:

1 - Get an ElementType element and get FamilyName property ...

Element elemType = dbDoc.GetElement(fp.GetTypeId());
ElementType type = elemType as ElementType;
string familyName = type.FamilyName;

2 - Get the built-in parameter ELEM_FAMILY_PARAM

 string familyName = fp.get_Parameter(BuiltInParameter.ELEME_FAMILY_PARAM)