Source Box
Read User Defined Collection Descriptions
Read the source descriptions in a user-defined collection.
get/sources/collections/{udcid}/descriptions
Path parameters
udcidstring required
The id of the user-defined collection. To find source folder IDs, see <a href="/reference/readusersourcefolders" target="_blank">Read User Source Folders</a>, or <a href="/reference/createsourcefolder" target="_blank">Create Source Folder</a> to create a new source folder.
Query parameters
startinteger
The index (zero-based) of the first source description to be returned from a user-defined collection.
countinteger
The maximum number of source descriptions being requested.
Headers
Accept'application/x-fs-v1+json' | 'application/x-gedcomx-v1+json' | 'application/json' | 'application/x-fs-v1+xml' | 'application/x-gedcomx-v1+xml' | 'application/xml' required
Specifies the media type(s) that the client is willing to accept in the response.
Response
The read was successful. See <a href="https://developers.familysearch.org/main/docs/json-schema#sourcedescription" target="_blank">SourceDescription Schema (JSON)</a>