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RE: I Research Dead People
I guess, for a start, you'd have to know which time period/s these people were in. Rules certainly change over time so what someone might have been able to get away with (e.g bigamy) easier during the 19th century, today it would be far more difficult.
Then you'd have to look at which country they originated from, and which navy they were in. There's no guarantee there would even be records, but you never know ...
Easy, here in west Island pre WW1, because my aunties were all much older than Dad, and Dad was born after he and his mum survived the Spanish Flu in 1919. While his Dad who had been a RN Shipwright, building the ports of Australia had barely arrived home in Portsmouth UK before the War ended. When i arrived in Australia, no-one with my surname was in any early seventies telephone books, but now ive seen some who hail from Freemantle in WA, which was one port my granddad built. So, i was obviously wondering, how much they might know of Albert John or ¿
Anyway, ive no money for any of that at present, i'm the younger son with a daughter who was taken away as a baby by her irish catholic mother, so my eldest brother's eldest might wish to know one day.
~ To you i write, as i was studying this lunch a Steeleye Span was playing. This got me to put a whole selection on the digital player. Gaudette played. It made me think of your question about the ladies headscarves. And i thought you might wish to tentatively ask of some of those old folk singers of their research. You must have heard of Maddy Prior¿ You will, i'm sure have listened to or sung along with, the unacknowledged hymn of the IRA, in All Around My Hat. The song, Gaudette sung in latin was written by Michael Philip McGlynn.
There were alot of singers, songwriters¿ in Steeleye Span, such songs as John Barleycorn, Prince Charlie, The Victory, had to have been researched. I did Singing Together in british primary school back in 1960, which featured many olde folk songs popular in their day, The holly and the ivy, or the Cornish anthem A Trusty Sword, or RN's Come All You Sailors Here, Come Draw Near, Come Draw Near...
So, when Steeleye Span started in 1969 it already had a broad base of likers even if our first love was Beatles and Rolling Stones and Jethro Tull. Starting an enquiry with Maddy Prior, if she will, might prove very beneficial.
Just a thought, from listening to Gaudette. 😇