# ChronicaPulse Obituary Research

> ChronicaPulse Obituary Research is a paid API for AI agents from chronicapulse.vercel.app, paid per call via x402, $0.1/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).

Retrieves death notices, survivor lists, and genealogical details from historical newspaper archives for a named individual

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://chronicapulse.vercel.app/api/chronica/obituary
- Price: $0.1/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/chronicapulse-obituary-research-34678804
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_eDCjK6991GEyB1-r9T8Wa

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability chronicapulse-obituary-research-34678804
```

Example prompt: Can you look up the obituary for Margaret Ellen Kowalski who died around 1932 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania — I need the death notice text, any survivors listed, and genealogical details from the historical newspaper archives.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you specifically need obituary content — death notices, survivor lists, and family relationships — from historical newspaper archives for genealogy or family history research. Prefer this over a general archive search when the goal is structured obituary data rather than broad newspaper mentions of a person.

## Known failure modes

- Person not found in digitized archives — returns empty result or 404
- Ambiguous name matches multiple individuals — may return multiple candidates or require additional filtering parameters
- Newspaper for the given region/date not digitized — no records available
- Insufficient identifying details provided — results may be inaccurate or overly broad
- Payment failure via x402 protocol — request not processed

## How this service works

Obituary research for genealogy and family-history agents. Returns death notices, survivor lists, and genealogical detail from historical newspaper archives.

## Output

Returns structured data including the full or partial obituary text, names of listed survivors and their relationships, death date and location, and source newspaper citation from digitized historical newspaper archives.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "required": [
  "name"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "lang": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "lang"
  },
  "name": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "name"
  },
  "year": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "year"
  },
  "location": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "location"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {}
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/chronicapulse-obituary-research-34678804/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from chronicapulse.vercel.app](https://www.zero.xyz/host/chronicapulse.vercel.app/llms.txt)