Records of Simon Watson on Ancestry

Ancestry is a major source of information if you are filling out the detail of Simon Watson in your family tree. With over 30 billion records and 100 million family trees to search, Ancestry is one of the key websites to visit to help you trace your family tree back in time. Free trials are normally available and are a good way to fill out a lot of your tree quickly.

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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Simon Watson and the Watson Genealogy

Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Watson Genealogy that will form part of your family tree. Although records vary from country to country, they are normally the most formal record of a person's relations. From the sources below you will be able to find a birth record and, from that, a birth certificate can be ordered which lists the names of the mother and father, taking you back another generation in your tree. A marriage certificate may also list the names of the respective fathers of the bride and groom which may then help you to find them earlier in life on a census record enabling you to fill out more detail in the Watson family tree.

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Watson Family Tree Databases

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Watson Forums

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Some Famous People called Simon Watson

Simon Watson (ice hockey)

Simon Watson (born April 3, 1980) is a Canadian retired ice hockey centre. After retiring as a player, he became a coach.

Watson played professionally in the Central Hockey League (CHL) for the Lubbock Cotton Kings, Rocky Mountain Rage, and finally the Missouri Mavericks. He played his junior hockey years for the Waterloo Siskins of the Mid-Western Junior Hockey League and his collegiate hockey at St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York. On August 5, 2011, Watson retired as a player and became the Mavericks' Assistant Director of Hockey Operations. On May 9, 2013, he was named to the coaching staff of the KC Mavs Elite Midget team.

In July 2014, Missouri Mavericks fans voted Watson the second-greatest Mavericks player in a poll of the Top-10 Mavericks players from the first 5 years of the team's existence.

On April 18, 2018, he continued his association with the Mavericks and was hired the head coach and general manager of the recently purchased Topeka RoadRunners junior team in the North American Hockey League.

Source: Simon Watson (ice hockey), Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

Other names that sound a bit like Watson

Family names can get corrupted over time, particularly where literacy was not as good. The following list contains some names that have similar sounds so you may want to also look at one or two of the more likely possibilites.

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