Persons

Create Person

Create a person.

post/tree/persons

Request

Base URL
https://apibeta.familysearch.org/platform
URL
https://apibeta.familysearch.org/platform/tree/persons
Auth
HTTP bearer

Headers

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

Specifies the media type of the entity-body sent to the server in the request.

X-Reasonstring

The reason for creating the person.

Request body

Example request

{
  "persons": [
    {
      "gender": {
        "type": "http://gedcomx.org/Male"
      },
      "names": [
        {
          "type": "http://gedcomx.org/BirthName",
          "preferred": true,
          "nameForms": [
            {
              "fullText": "John Smith",
              "parts": [
                {
                  "type": "http://gedcomx.org/Given",
                  "value": "John"
                }
              ]
            }
          ]
        }
      ],
      "facts": [
        {
          "type": "http://gedcomx.org/Birth",
          "date": {
            "original": "3 Apr 1836",
            "formal": "+1836-04-03"
          },
          "place": {
            "original": "Kirtland, Ohio, United States"
          }
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

Response

The creation of the person was successful. Expect a location header specifying the link to the created person.

Changes

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