Tutorial Register

Step 1: Register Your Account and App

Follow these instructions to register yourself with FamilySearch as a partner developer, and to create your app in FamilySearch.

Partner Registration

• If you do not already have access to the FamilySearch sandbox, Register as a FamilySearch Developer to obtain a partner account. You will be given a user name and password to access the FamilySearch sandbox.

App Creation

You need an app in your FamilySearch partner account with an assigned redirect URI. Your app's redirect URI and app key are required in order to authenticate with FamilySearch.

To create a new app, follow these steps:

• Go to My Apps on the FamilySearch Developer site.
• Click the "Create App" button and fill in the form. When using the JavaScript SDK the redirect URI can just be your web-accessible domain.
• Set the redirect URI to the base path of the current domain and the app will work wherever it runs. You do not have to change this between development and production.The format for the redirect URI is http://YOURDOMAIN
• For this tutorial, use the following redirect URI: http://127.0.0.1:8080
• Click "Add", then click "Create App"
• Important! When creating a new app, verify that your app key appears on the screen.
• Click the "Save Changes" button.

To add the redirect URI to an existing app, follow these steps:

• Go to My Apps on the FamilySearch Developer site.
• Click an existing app name to open the Details page.
• Enter http://127.0.0.1:8080 in the empty text box at the bottom of the list of URIs.
• Click the "Add" button.
• Click the "Save Changes" button.

(Proceed to Step 2 of the tutorial.)