Places Endpoints
The FamilySearch API provides a free and powerful way to standardize place references in your app or service.
Open GuidePlaces Endpoints
Features Include
A Single Source of Place Data
Simplify your app or service with a standard way for users to enter or edit locations.
Historical Context Over Time
Show how geographic place names have evolved over time due to jurisdiction changes.
Language Support
Provide your users with tools to work with place names in multiple languages.
Popular Endpoints
Places Search
This query matches a user-entered place-name to a standardized place-name. It can also retrieve certain types of places within a particular jurisdiction or search for places within a radius of a specified latitude or longitude point.
View EndpointPlace
This query is used to read a place. It is a representation of the logical place and will have one or more place descriptions associated with it. Place descriptions can accommodate for a place existing in different jurisdictions at different times.
View EndpointPlace Description
This query is used to read a description of a place at a given time, within a specific jurisdiction, and with a specific official name. Place descriptions have a unique, numeric identifier.
View EndpointOther Endpoint Options
Place-Names
Standardize the places in your app or service with a database of more than 6 million locations.
View Place-Names GuideRecord Hints
Help your users discover their own family in billions of searchable records from all over the world.
View Records GuideCET Trees
Offer a tree-building option that allows users to build a private pedigree with, or without, assistance from others.
View CET Trees GuidePhotos and Stories
Access millions of family and ancestor photos, stories, and documents added by our users.
View Memories Guide