Oliver Stegen PhD

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Problems/Questions Profile managers: Oliver Stegen [send private message], Silas Stegen [send private message], Miriam Stegen [send private message], and Tabita Schubert [send private message]

Biography

Oliver Stegen PhD wurde in Lüneburg, Deutschland geboren.

Oliver wurde in der Hannoverschen Landeskirche getauft und konfirmiert.

Oliver worked as a linguistic consultant until 2019.

Oliver was a mission partner of the Church of Scotland from 2006 to 2017.

Oliver Stegen PhD is a member of the Ostermann Name Study Project.

Oliver Stegen PhD is a member of the Remember the Children Project.

Oliver was featured in a Meet Our Members Post on the G2G Forum!

Oliver Stegen PhD participated with Germany Genies during the April 2024 Connect-a-Thon, and added 458 connections.

The Genies placed 3rd out of 40 teams and 1st in Division II, with 5,279 connections and had a normalized score of 293.

Oliver Stegen PhD participated with Germany Genies during the 2023 Source-a-Thon, adding sources to 295 previously unsourced profiles.

Oliver has participated in 24 out of 52 weeks during the 2023 52 Ancestors Challenge.

Oliver Stegen PhD participated with Germany Genies during the July 2023 Connect-a-Thon, and added 430 connections.

The Genies placed 4th out of 39 teams with 5,323 connections and had a normalized score of 253.

Oliver Stegen PhD participated with Germany Genies during the January 2023 Connect-a-Thon, and added 168 connections.

The Genies placed 3rd out of 35 teams with 5,596 connections and had a normalized score of 295.

Oliver was born in Lüneburg as first-born son of Udo and Brunhilde Stegen of Oerzen^[1]. He married Dorothea Müller of Dresden^[2] with whom he has three living children. Since 2020, he has been living in Holzhausen near Burbach in South Westphalia.

Education, Occupations and Residences

Other Information

My professional resume up to 2018 can be found in pdf format among my images.

Religion: ev.-luth.

Christening: 22 September 1968 in Embsen; Godparents: Helmut Krüger, Heidrun Benning, Günter Burkhardt.

Religious Confirmation: 23 May 1982 in Kirchgellersen, St. Laurentius Parish

Genealogical Research

My father researched his ancestors in the 1970s, and the documents he collected from parish registers went back to the Thirty Years War. I copied this as an interested teenager into notebooks which I later transferred into a software program, and I've been at expanding my family tree, on and off, ever since. I discovered WikiTree end of 2017 and was immediately hooked.

In addition to working on profiles of my wider family and their communities, I'm also adding the "Died Young" template and appropriate categorization to profiles of those who died in infancy or childhood (tag "Remember the Children").

Since end of 2022, through my work as a Connector, I'm fascinated by Lords and Ladies of the Rim and the underlying concepts developed by Bernard Vatant and his team.

In January 2024, I started the Ostermann Name Study.

Space Pages that I've contributed to:

• Kondoa Colonial Cemetery
• Landkreis Uelzen, Niedersachsen
• Lüneburger Heide
• Ostermann, Jewish Roots
• Ostermann, Lüneburger Heide
• The Outer Rim of the Global Tree

Contribution Milestones:

• 30 March 2021 = 4444 edits
• 26 March 2022 = 12345 edits
• 11 April 2023 = 22222 edits
• 20 Dec 2023 = 33333 edits

Ancestral Surnames

Under each grandparent subheading, click on a Surname to view the corresponding EKA - Earliest Known Ancestor.

Paternal grandfather - STEGEN

Alheit (Alhydes)

Benthake, Bergmann, Bergmann, Bostelmann, Brüggemann, Buchholz, Bünstorff, Burmeister

Cordes

Detje

Främbs

Halter, Hoyer, Hoyer

Krüger, Kruse

Lemcke, Löwe, Luetcholt (Lütchold)

Maack

Ostermann

Persiel (Beßiel), Putensen

Sasse, Schliekau (Schlickau, Schlieckau, Schlikaw), Schröder, Schröder, Schröder, Sinn, Stegen (Steding), Stegen (Steding), Stein, Steinhauer

Timme

Vicke (Vick)

Warnecke, Warnecke, Westedt, Wilkens

Paternal grandmother - OSTERMANN

Berens, Bockendahl, Börries

Constien (Constin)

Dittmer

Elbers

Flügge

Gade (Gahde)

Han, Harms, Harms, Harms (Hermens), Hinrich, Hinrichs, Höbermann

Jacobs, Jungemann

Kathmann, Klepe, Koch, Koch, Krüger, Kruse

Levin, Linne, Lübbe

Meier, Meier (Meyer), Mennings, Meyer, Meyer, Meyer, Meyer, Meyer, Meyer, Meyer, Meyer (Meier), Müller

von der Ohe (thor Nedderohe), Ostermann

Pötzmann

Rebek, Renken

Sander, Sander, Sander, Schlüter, Schmedt (Schmidt, Smit), Schröder, Schröder, Schwarz (Schwartz), Stegen, Stein

Tiemann (Tiedemann), Timme, Töbing

Vages, Vogd

Warfer, Wenck, Wille

Maternal grandfather - GRAUL

Beyer, Breitenbach

Echtermeyer, Ernst

Fritsch

Graul, Günther

Haase, Hagedorn, Hartung, Hartung, Henkel, Höfer, Höfer, Hohlstein, Hopmann

Kaiser (Kayser), Kaufmann, Keil, Kepler, Keul, Küchenthal, Kühm, Künnen, Kunze, Kunze (Cuntz)

Marschausen, Marschausen, Marschausen

Otte

Renneberg, Ringling, Ringling, Ringling

Sachse, Sauerbier, Sauershausen, Sauershausen, Schäfer, Scharfenberg, Schinkel, Schönemann, Stender

Wilcke

Zapfe, Ziegler

Maternal grandmother - NEUMANN

Alt (Aldt)

Bähr (Beer), Becher, Bockerts, Bötticher, Brauer, Breitenbach

Francke (Franck)

Görl

Hellermann, Henning, Hoffmann

Karl, Köhler, Köhmel, König, Kotte, Kraushaar

Landgraf, Lüddecke (Lüdecke)

Meinhardt, Merten, Metzoldt, Metzolt, Mietzschke (Mietschke)

Nehls, Neiding, Neumann

Paul, Pfaff, Plünsch (Plunzke)

Reinhardt, Reißland, Riemann, Rinck, Ritter, Rosenstengel, Röth, Rüdiger

Sachse, Schatz, Schlegel, Schlie, Schmidt, Schoras, Schreiber, Schwartz, Stendel, Stephan, Stiede

Thiele, Thimme, Tunze

Venter, Vogler

Wandeßleib/Wand(er)sleb(en), Weiß, Werner, Wiegleb, Winzer, Wirth, Wollenhaupt

Zugwurst, Zwetz

Most helpful for breaking through brick walls so far have been the family books (Ortsfamilienbücher, short OFB) of the Museumsverein Uelzen. I've listed those which I own, some also from other regions and publishers, under Wikitree's German Project page on German Family Books.

An example of puzzling together a biography from four OFB sources, that I’m particularly proud of, is Heinrich Christian Meyer (1802-1867).

Ancestor Table

I've seen this at cousin Steven's profile page and wanted to create one of my own.

There are 4094 total possible ancestors within 11 generations (due to pedigree collapse, these are often not 4094 distinct persons). As of March 2024, I have identified 416 (or 10.16%) of them. Going back 15 generations, that number increases to just over 500 but the percentage drops to less than one percent.

Numbers marked with "*" (from the 8th generation upwards) indicate that some ancestors occur two or more times in different slots of my tree, i.e. those 57 persons who are my 6th great-grandparents are not 57 distinct persons. This becomes obvious when you consider that, for example, my paternal grandparents were 7th cousins once removed. Or even closer, my 4GGP A.C.Schmidt-P.H.Harms were first cousins, i.e. their grandparents (my 6GGP) appear at least twice in my ancestral tree.

Ahnenliste meiner Kinder

Since March of 2024, I've been working on Ahnenliste meiner Kinder (Ancestors' List for my children) which will become the basis for an expanded and updated Ancestor Table.

Relations and Connections

I'm glad that a number of relatives responded to my invitations, among them:

• my children Tabita, Miriam and Silas Natanael
• my brother Hardy and our mother Brunhilde
• my paternal first cousin Arndt
• my maternal second cousins Petra and Wolf
• my paternal second cousin Marc
• my sister-in-law Antje, her son Theodor and her nieces Anne and Josefine

WikiTreer Relatives

Through my ancestors in the Bienenbüttel area (on my father's side), I am related to the following WikiTreers:

• Steven Greenwood (multiple lines, e.g. 9C1R via Magdalena Sander) as well as his cousins Roger Ribbke Jr., Robert Henry and Pamela Speich
• Laurie Hughes (7C1R via Clara Dorothea Meyer) and her granddaughter Madison
• Henning Saucke (multiple lines, e.g. 9th cousins via Anna Schliekau)
• Jeff Jahn (5C1R via Hans Christoffer Ostermann)
• Dick Jewell (7C1R via Anne Sophia Schmedt)
• Brand in Québec (9th cousins via Hanß Meier)
• Christine Parker (7th step-cousins by marriage via Dorothee Elisabeth nee Dreyer)
• Mark Eddy jr. (via my 5C3R Amelia Brunhoeber) and his sister-in-law Abby Glann

Through my 12GGF Nicolaus Wantzleben (on my mother's side), I am related to the following WikiTreers:

• Elizabeth Randerson (13C) as well as her brother Edward and her cousin Daniel Foley
• Ann Miller and Paul Polcsan (both 9C4R)
• Carol Norwood (11C2R)

I am also related to WikiTreer André through my second cousin David's marriage to his sister.

The following friends and colleagues are also on WikiTree:

• Jeremy and Janell
• Andreas (Unconnected)
• Bernd
• Christian A. (we assume blood relationship but haven't found our common ancestor yet)
• Martin T. (Unconnected)
• Chris (Unconnected)
• Johnny
• David M.

Featured and Notable Relatives

• first and foremost, 3C6R to Johanna Stegen, the heroine of Lüneburg during the Napoleonic Wars, via Hinrich Stegen
• 6C7R to featured socialist writer Jenny (von Westphalen) Marx via Nicolaus Wantzleben; and 7C6R to her notable daughters: socialist writer Jenny Longuet, French translator Laura Lafargue and socialist activist Eleanor Marx Aveling
• first German MLB player George Heubel, 6C7R via Nicolaus Wantzleben

DNA comparisons

Not many of my WikiTreer relatives (see subsection above) have tested their DNA. For those who did, comparison results are comparatively weak, e.g. 5C1R Jeff Jahn:

• GEDmatch test match between Stegen-15 JR2069839 and Jahn-37 A283880. Largest segment = 3.9 cM; Total Half-Match segments (HIR) 13.8cM (0.385%); 4 shared segments found for this comparison. 51.305% of the 199654 SNPs used for this comparison are full identical.

Advance Directive

In the event of my untimely demise (after all, eternity is not an endless temporal duration but rather untimeliness - heed Wittgenstein's Tractatus, esp. section 6.4311!), I herewith decree that all of my private profiles should be transferred to those mentioned above (under Relations and Connections, and under WikiTreer Relatives), whether or not they are currently on the trusted lists.

Sources

1. ↑ Geburtsurkunde Nr.1395/1968 des Standesamtes Lüneburg
2. ↑ Heiratsurkunde Nr.394/1992 des Standesamtes Dresden

• First-hand information. Entered by Oliver Stegen since registration (Dec 2017 - Aug 2023).