Create Person Conclusion

This example request illustrates how to update a person. The ID of the conclusion must be provided. Note that if a new conclusion, such as a name, gender, or fact, is to be added to the person, the conclusion is provided without an ID.

JSON

Request

POST /platform/tree/persons/12345
Content-Type: application/x-gedcomx-v1+json
Authorization: Bearer YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN_HERE{
  "persons" : [ {
    "id" : "12345",
    "facts" : [ {
      "attribution" : {
        "changeMessage" : "...change message..."
      },
      "type" : "http://gedcomx.org/Birth",
      "date" : {
        "original" : "3 Apr 1836",
        "formal" : "+1836"
      },
      "place" : {
        "original" : "Moscow, Russia",
        "normalized" : [ {
          "lang" : "en",
          "value" : "Moscow, Moskva, Russia"
        } ]
      }
    } ]
  } ]
}

Response

HTTP/1.1 201 Created
Content-type: text/html
X-entity-id: 1
X-processing-time: 3
Vary: Accept,Accept-Language,Accept-Encoding,Expect
Content-location: /platform/tree/persons/12345
Date: Sun, 03 Apr 1836 10:00:00 GMT-5
Cache-control: no-transform, must-revalidate, max-age=0
Location: https://api.familysearch.org/platform/tree/persons/12345/conclusions/1
Transfer-encoding: chunked

XML

Request

POST /platform/tree/persons/12345
Content-Type: application/x-gedcomx-v1+xml
Authorization: Bearer YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN_HERE<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<gedcomx xmlns:fs="http://familysearch.org/v1/" xmlns="http://gedcomx.org/v1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
    <person id="12345">
        <fact type="http://gedcomx.org/Birth">
            <attribution>
                <changeMessage>...change message...</changeMessage>
            </attribution>
            <date>
                <original>3 Apr 1836</original>
                <formal>+1836</formal>
            </date>
            <place>
                <original>Moscow, Russia</original>
                <normalized xml:lang="en">Moscow, Moskva, Russia</normalized>
            </place>
        </fact>
    </person>
</gedcomx>

Response

HTTP/1.1 201 Created
Content-type: text/html
X-entity-id: 1
X-processing-time: 3
Vary: Accept,Accept-Language,Accept-Encoding,Expect
Content-location: /platform/tree/persons/12345
Date: Sun, 03 Apr 1836 10:00:00 GMT-5
Cache-control: no-transform, must-revalidate, max-age=0
Location: https://api.familysearch.org/platform/tree/persons/12345/conclusions/1
Transfer-encoding: chunked