The phrase "already familiar from" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to something that someone has encountered or recognized before, often in relation to a source or context.
Example: "The character's traits are already familiar from previous novels by the same author."
Alternatives: "previously known from" or "recognized from before".
For the most part, "American Isis" retells the life that is already familiar from earlier biographies.
But "Whitechapel" also engages in borrowing of another sort: Many of its subplots are already familiar from other police procedurals.
The first of these problems is already familiar from the previous discussion of the stages of capitalist development.
Already familiar from October's EP, Another World, by contrast, bids a wracked goodbye to a blighted world.
If his face were not already familiar from television news, he might have been mistaken for a first-year law student assisting the defense team.
Even the title captures the skewed humor that was already familiar from the group's news conferences and that was a central element of the film.
The overall idea here isn't all that different from the stories format you are probably already familiar with from the likes of Instagram and Snapchat.
Choose a topic you are already familiar with from other courses, reading and assignments.
Marilyn Lovell (who people are already familiar with from the movie "Apollo 13″) was in Paris with her astronaut husband, Jim, recently, so their daughter, "Astrokid Susan Lovelll, joined me on book tour in Chicago.
Arguably, these general ELSI issues are not particular to SynBio, but refer to broader developments and future visions we are already familiar with from other fields of (bio) technology.
It's basically a social layer that you can lay on top of your WordPress (MU — more on that below) blog to give it some of the social network features that you're already familiar with from larger social networking sites.
