So....I was surfing the Internet Monday evening and somehow I ended up on the Washington State Digital Archives page. My brain is still a little fuzzy on how I got there, but when I saw the search box I started plugging in my surname list as I routinely do when I find sites like this. I didn't get very far 
because after I entered "Agazio," I got a hit...and this is what caused my brain to get a little fuzzy.
I clicked on the one result under naturalization records, and I saw the name Antonio Agazio. Hmmm...this was my grandfather's name. Now before I clicked again I thought this couldn't be him. Why would there be a naturalization record for my grandfather in Washington with a date of 1901 when I already have the petition for naturalization (1925) and declaration of intention (1922) he obtained in Colorado? There have been so many false positives in my hunt for how this man came to the United States, but there was his name staring at me...so I took a breath and clicked.
As my luck sometimes seems to go in these matters, it was him. Here's the record page and the actual declaration of intention my grandfather signed in 1908. The exciting part about this find is the new information this document gives me. I learned that he traveled from Italy to France; then to Liverpool, England; then to Quebec, Canada on a ship named "Lake Michigan." Up to this point, I had no idea he was in France, England, or the name of the ship he sailed on to Canada. I need to study the document closer and I will write more about what I find later. I wonder why he went through the declaration of intention process twice?
The weird part of all of this is I wasn't really looking for him...it just kind of happened.
