Sources

Create Genealogies Source Description

Create a genealogies source description in a tree. Provides a way to create genealogies source descriptions among persons in user-submitted genealogies.

post/genealogies/trees/{tid}/sources

Request

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

Path parameters

tidstring required

The ID of the genealogies tree. To find genealogies tree IDs, see <a href="/reference/readgenealogiestrees" target="_blank">Read Genealogies Trees</a>, or <a href="/reference/creategenealogiestree" target="_blank">Create Genealogies Tree</a> to create a new genealogies tree.

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.

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": "Added new source documentation"
      }
    }
  ]
}

Response

The operation was successful.

Changes

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