It is clear that there is a lot of interest around the world in researching Watson ancestry, with many personal family history pages on the internet, thousands of Watson family trees on many genealogy websites and a few dedicated Watson DNA projects. There is also a Watson One-Name Study managed by myself through the Guild of One-Name Studies website, part of which involves their Newswatch initiative in which I get sent Watson-related BMD notices from around the world.
Through the One-Name Study, my previous Clan Watson website and a few other sources I have, for several years now, been accumulating data on those that were born or married into the Watson name and cataloging it as best I can. Some of the early results are available on the existing website.
With the setup of this new website dedicated to the Clan Watson Society, I have incorporated a database and have been slowly feeding it with the collected information. I expect this to take several more months as I work my way through my archives, but please keep checking back as the database grows for potential links to your own ancestors.
If you're researching your own Watson ancestry, or even if you only know the names of your parents and grandparents, and you want to be part of the project, send your details to me and I'll add them to the database. My policy is that I will not add details of living people unless specifically asked to, and I am happy to remove or anonymise details for recent ancestors as requested, so feel free to send me everything you have and let me know what you are and aren't happy for me to publish.
If you are just starting out in your family research and need some help, I'd love to hear from you - I'm getting pretty adept at working with the various online tools to track down past relatives, and am always happy to pass on my recently-gained knowledge, and even to help others out with their search activities where I have the time (be warned that my to-do list is fairly extensive and growing by the week!).