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With
Joe Biden set to be sworn in as the 46th President next Wednesday, Americans are uncovering new details about the 78-year-old's ancestry.
The President-elect makes frequent reference to his Irish forebears, but there is now fervent interest in a speech he made back in 2013, in which he claimed he had familial connections in
India.
'In the 1970s, I received a letter from a gentleman [with the surname] Biden from Mumbai, asserting that we were related,' he stated in the 2013 speech, delivered during a trip to the country.
'He suggested that our mutual great-great-great-great grandfather worked for the East India Trading Company and came to Mumbai.'
Biden later claimed that the mutual relative's name was George Biden, but records of such a person do not appear to exist.
Instead,
Tim Willasey-Wilsey, a visiting professor of War Studies at King's College, London, says it is more likely that the President-elect was related to Christopher Biden, who worked for the East India Company.
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