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The following guides may be useful as you build a user experience built on the FamilySearch APIs.

GETTING STARTED

1. Get Started
2. App Approval Considerations
3. Authentication
4. OAuth 2.0 for Native Apps

    API

    1. API Evolution
    2. Caching
    3. Collections
    4. HTTP
    5. HTTP Status Codes
    6. Hypermedia
    7. Internationalization
    8. Linking
    9. Persistent Identifiers
    10. Synchronization
    11. Throttling

    FAMILY TREE

    1. Change History
    2. Collaboration
    3. Data Model
    4. Dates
    5. Facts
    6. Family Tree Search
    7. Family Tree Match
    8. Merging
    9. Names
    10. Pedigree
    11. Persons
    12. Private Spaces
    13. Search and Match
    14. Sources

    OTHER

    1. Authorities
    2. Client Credentials Authentication
    3. GEDCOM
    4. GEDCOM X
    5. Genealogies
    6. Glossary
    7. Memories
    8. Ordinances
    9. Photo Metadata
    10. Places
    11. Source Create Destination Page
    12. User
    13. Generic Relationships Update
    14. Generic Relationships Search Update
    15. Standard Ingest Procedure
    16. Token Refresh
    17. Deep Zoom