Family Tree Search

The Tree Person Search resource provides a powerful interface for users of third-party clients to find persons in the FamilySearch Family Tree. This guide will describe the behavior of the system and how to properly form a query to find the desired person records. Please refer to our guide on using Search/Faceting/Filters.

Search Results

Search results do not return information on living persons and will only contain persons for which the authenticated user has permissions to see. For each search hit, information regarding related people will also be contained in the results. The information returned by the search system is intended to help a user identify a person in the tree, but may not contain the “canonical” representation of the person and relationships. For canonical person information, please use the Tree Person resource.

Search results are returned in a GEDCOM X Atom format application/x-gedcomx-atom+json or application/x-gedcomx-atom+xml. Your client must include this in the Accept header or an error will be returned.

Accept: application/x-gedcomx-atom+json;