I needed to verify his birth date and hoped that his death certificate would give me the names of his parents so I ordered his death certificate from the Alaska Department of Heath and Social Services website at http://dhss.alaska.gov/dph/VitalStats/Pages/death/default.aspx.
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This page gives us his age and again states that he was born in Malta. It also gives his death date, location, and burial information. Unfortunately his parents names and birth location is unknown.
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The second page gives some family information, the thing that interested me the most is number 27 Name and address of other living relatives. It states that Frederick A. Watson has a brother and two sisters living in Australia. The names and addresses are listed as unknown.
I have been curious about his naturalization and did a search online. I discovered that the Alaska Archives has an index.
After I discovered him on the index, I contacted the Alaska Archives and they were kind enough to send me copies of Frederick Watson's naturalization records free of charge. Two of the pages were very large and my scanner isn't big enough so I had to scan the top and then the bottom.
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He became a citizen on 19 June 1928.
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These records confirm that his birthday is 22 October 1874 in Malta. It also gives us his wife's birthday and birth location along with all living children. The date these documents were filed were in 1925 and 1927. They tell us that he came to the USA through Vancouver, Canada and into Seattle, Washington on the 15th January 1905.
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