What do we read out of family search?
- Person Information
- Search Match
- Authorities Data – places
- LDS Ordinance Information
Objects available in the new FamilySearch
- Person
- Search Data
- Contributor Information
- Place Standardization Data
Can output XML, JSON, and XML-FastInfoset. Request can be gzipped if client supported.
Locate a resource via NFS Id – ‘KWCD-QBC’, Ancestral File Number – ‘afn.2bW3-9H’ or Gedcom UID.
Examples:
https://api.familysearch.org/familytree/v1/person/KWCD-QBC?sessionId=MMMM
https://api.familysearch.org/authorities/v1/place/933423?sessionId=MMMM
https://api.familysearch.org/v1/search?name=Isreal Hoyt heaton?sessionId=MMMM
Get the schema: