Read Place Description Children

This example request illustrates how to get the children of a place description. Using this resource to search for children of a place (/description/1/children), will return the same results as searching for everything with the parentId of place "1" (/search?q=+parentId:1).

JSON

Request

GET /platform/places/description/1/children
Accept: application/x-fs-v1+json
Authorization: Bearer YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN_HERE

Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-type: application/x-fs-v1+json
X-processing-time: 3
Vary: Accept,Accept-Language,Accept-Encoding,Expect
Date: Sun, 03 Apr 1836 10:00:00 GMT-5
Cache-control: no-transform, must-revalidate, max-age=86400
Transfer-encoding: chunked{
  "places" : [ {
    "id" : "351",
    "links" : {
      "description" : {
        "href" : "https://api.familysearch.org/platform/places/description/351?flag=fsh"
      }
    },
    "names" : [ {
      "lang" : "en",
      "value" : "Alabama"
    }, {
      "lang" : "zh-Kana",
      "value" : "アラバマ州"
    } ]
  }, {
    "id" : "350",
    "links" : {
      "description" : {
        "href" : "https://api.familysearch.org/platform/places/description/350?flag=fsh"
      }
    },
    "names" : [ {
      "lang" : "en",
      "value" : "Alaska"
    }, {
      "lang" : "zh-Kana",
      "value" : "アラスカ州"
    } ]
  }, {
    "id" : "326",
    "links" : {
      "description" : {
        "href" : "https://api.familysearch.org/platform/places/description/326?flag=fsh"
      }
    },
    "names" : [ {
      "lang" : "en",
      "value" : "Arizona"
    }, {
      "lang" : "zh-Kana",
      "value" : "アリゾナ州"
    } ]
  }, {
    "id" : "367",
    "links" : {
      "description" : {
        "href" : "https://api.familysearch.org/platform/places/description/367?flag=fsh"
      }
    },
    "names" : [ {
      "lang" : "en",
      "value" : "Arkansas"
    }, {
      "lang" : "zh-Kana",
      "value" : "アーカンソー州"
    } ]
  } ]
}

XML

Request

GET /platform/places/description/1/children
Accept: application/x-fs-v1+xml
Authorization: Bearer YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN_HERE

Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-type: application/x-fs-v1+xml
X-processing-time: 3
Vary: Accept,Accept-Language,Accept-Encoding,Expect
Date: Sun, 03 Apr 1836 10:00:00 GMT-5
Cache-control: no-transform, must-revalidate, max-age=86400
Transfer-encoding: chunked<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<fs:familysearch xmlns:fs="http://familysearch.org/v1/" xmlns="http://gedcomx.org/v1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
    <place id="351">
        <link rel="description" href="https://api.familysearch.org/platform/places/description/351?flag=fsh"/>
        <name xml:lang="en">Alabama</name>
        <name xml:lang="zh-Kana">アラバマ州</name>
    </place>
    <place id="350">
        <link rel="description" href="https://api.familysearch.org/platform/places/description/350?flag=fsh"/>
        <name xml:lang="en">Alaska</name>
        <name xml:lang="zh-Kana">アラスカ州</name>
    </place>
    <place id="326">
        <link rel="description" href="https://api.familysearch.org/platform/places/description/326?flag=fsh"/>
        <name xml:lang="en">Arizona</name>
        <name xml:lang="zh-Kana">アリゾナ州</name>
    </place>
    <place id="367">
        <link rel="description" href="https://api.familysearch.org/platform/places/description/367?flag=fsh"/>
        <name xml:lang="en">Arkansas</name>
        <name xml:lang="zh-Kana">アーカンソー州</name>
    </place>
</fs:familysearch>