FAfamilysearch
Sources

Update Genealogies Source Description

Update a genealogies source description.

post/genealogies/sources/{sdid}

Request

  • Base URL
    https://apibeta.familysearch.org/platform
  • URL
    https://apibeta.familysearch.org/platform/genealogies/sources/{sdid}
  • Auth
    HTTP bearer

Path parameters

sdidstring required

The ID of the genealogies source description to be updated. To find genealogies source description IDs, see <a href="/reference/readgenealogiessourcedescriptions" target="_blank">Read Genealogies Source Descriptions</a>.

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

Header giving the reason for creating the genealogies source description.

Request body

Example request

{
  "sourceDescriptions": [
    {
      "citations": [
        {
          "value": "\"United States Census, 1900.\" database and digital images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/: accessed 17 Mar 2012), Ethel Hollivet, 1900."
        }
      ],
      "titles": [
        {
          "value": "1900 US Census, Ethel Hollivet"
        }
      ],
      "notes": [
        {
          "text": "Additional information about the source."
        }
      ],
      "attribution": {
        "changeMessage": "Updated citation information"
      }
    }
  ]
}

Response

The update was successful.

Changes

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