(Apologies for posting this a day later than normal.)
Thursday's episode of Who Do You Think You Are? featured ex-model and ex-Mrs Jagger, Jerry Hall. A Texan by birth, Jerry found that her roots went deeper into the United States than she expected.
There was an interesting mix of history here - from life as a mill-worker in Oldham to a railway-worker in Texas, and land owners in various states in the West and South of the US. The main story here though was the Western frontier - as the US pushed West, Jerry's family pushed with them. This is a tale of hardship and prosperity, cowboys and 'Indians.'
One thing that struck me though is the detail that is available in some US records - I suppose it's only logical that when there are less people in a particular town or state, there is less local news to report, and so more chance that anything which the inhabitants of that town did, went through, or achieved, would be recorded.
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