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Read Place Description

Read a place description. A Place Description represents a place in a given time period, within a specific jurisdiction, with a specific official name. Place Description identifiers are in a different namespace than Place identifiers - for example, Place ID 123 is not the same as Place Description ID 123.

get/places/description/{pdid}

Path parameters

pdidstring required

The id of the place description. To find place description IDs, see <a href="/reference/readplaces" target="_blank">Read Places</a>.

Headers

Accept'application/x-fs-v1+json' | 'application/x-gedcomx-v1+json' | 'application/json' | 'application/x-fs-v1+xml' | 'application/x-gedcomx-v1+xml' | 'application/xml' required

Specifies the media type(s) that the client is willing to accept in the response.

Response

The read was successful. See <a href="https://developers.familysearch.org/main/docs/json-schema#placedescription" target="_blank">PlaceDescription Schema (JSON)</a>

Changes

No recorded changes to this endpoint across all 1 revision of this API.