Welcome

The GEDCOM X RS project is an extension to GEDCOM X to define a RESTful API for genealogical data.

Online genealogical data applications that provide an interface in conformance to GEDCOM X RS will be able to leverage the GEDCOM X-compatible tools and libraries that are being developed to manage genealogical data. Clients will be enabled to read, analyze, update, and correlate genealogical data across multiple applications using the same toolset.

GEDCOM X RS is to online genealogical data what HTML is to online web pages.

The Specification

Here is the formal specification.

Examples

Here are some examples of useful things clients can do with interfaces compatible with GEDCOM X RS.

Find Records

1. Read the collection to be searched.
2. Use the link to the person-search endpoint to put together a search query.

For details see Person Search State.

example

request

GET /path/to/person/search

response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/x-gedcomx-atom+json

{
  ...search results...
}

Search for Persons in a Collection

1. Read the collection to be searched.
2. Use the link to the person-search endpoint to put together a search query.

For details see Person Search State.

example

request

GET /path/to/person/search

response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/x-gedcomx-atom+json

{
  ...search results...
}

Read the Ancestry of a Person

1. Read the person.
2. Use the link to the ancestry endpoint to read the ancestry.

For details see Ancestry Results State.

example

request

GET /path/to/person/ancestry

response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/x-gedcomx-v1+json

{
  ...data about the ancestry of a person...
}

Read a Description of a Source

1. Read the source description.

For details see Source Description State.

example

request

GET /path/to/source/description

response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/x-gedcomx-v1+json

{
  ...data about the source...
}

Read a Record

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Read a Person

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Read the Sources of a Person

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Update the Name of a Person

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Create a Person

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Create a Relationship Between Two Persons

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Add a Source to a Person

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Upload an Image of a Birth Certificate to a Person

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