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Read Person

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https://apibeta.familysearch.org/platform/tree/persons/

Retrieve a single Person by the personId including the names, gender, and facts of the person.

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Path Params
string
required

The id of the person to retrieve. Can be a person from the main FamilySearch tree or from a user tree. To find an example person ID, see Search Tree Persons.

Query Params
boolean

True if related persons (all parents, all children, all spouses) should be included in the response; false otherwise.

boolean

True if the call will attempt to include source descriptions; false otherwise.

boolean

True if call is to fail on sources read error; false otherwise (will return person without failed sources).

Responses
200

The read was successful. See Person Schema (JSON)

301

If the requested person has been merged into another person. A Location header is included with the URI of the person that this person was merged into.

404

If the requested person is not found.

410

If the requested person has been deleted.

429

The request was throttled.

Updated about 2 months ago

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