The year was 1820 when an English immigrant named William Biden first appeared in US records. A census listed him as a resident of Maryland, one of about 10 million people then living in the US.
He was part of a growing community of immigrants who, in many cases, were lured to the country by the promise of a better life.
If they stretched far enough, a piece of the American dream was within their grasp.
Some 200 years later, another man by the name of Biden would chase that dream to dizzying heights.
When Joseph Robinette Biden Jr, 78, won the presidential election last year, his victory was celebrated in the Republic of Ireland, one of his ancestral lands.
Meanwhile, the reaction was muted in Westbourne, a quaint village in West Sussex, England.
There were no scenes of jubilation here, even though researchers had recently confirmed the village was once home to the president's third great-grandfather - the William Biden from the records of 1820.
President Biden's English heritage has long been the source of debate and misdirection.
One prominent claim pointed to another William Biden, who was from Houghton, Cambridgeshire and served as a naval officer for the East India Company.
In 2013, during a trip to India, Mr Biden said he was made aware of a "great, great, great, something or other" who "worked for the East India Trading Company".
But records examined by Megan Smolenyak, an American genealogist, show this William Biden died in Myanmar, formerly Burma, in 1843.
Unlike this William Biden, the one from Westbourne can be followed "across to Maryland and through the ascendancy to Joe", Eddy Greenfield, a local historian from Sussex, said.
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