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Ostermann Name Study

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Surnames/tags: Ostermann Osterman Easterman
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About the Project

The Ostermann Name Study project serves as a collaborative platform to collect information on the Ostermann name. The hope is that other researchers like you will join the study to help make it a valuable reference point for other genealogists who are researching or have an interest in the Ostermann name.

As a One Name Study, this project is not limited to persons who are related biologically. Individual studies can be used to branch out the research into specific methods and areas of interest, such as geographically (England Ostermann's), by time period (18th Century Ostermann's), or by topic (Ostermann DNA, Ostermann Occupations, Ostermann Statistics). These studies may also include a number of family branches which have no immediate link with each other. Some researchers may even be motivated to go beyond the profile identification and research stage to compile fully sourced, single-family histories of some of the families they discover through this name study project.

Also see the related surnames and surname variants.

How to Join

To join the Ostermann Name Study, first start out by browsing our current research pages to see if there is a specific study ongoing or category listed that fits your interests. If so, feel free to add your name to the Membership list below, post an introduction comment on the specific team page, and then dive right in!

If a research page does not yet exist for your particular area of interest, feel free to start one. If in doubt or in need of assistance, please contact the Name Study Coordinator: Oliver Stegen PhD.

... ... ... is a member of the Ostermann Name Study Project.

Once you have joined, you can also show your project affiliation with the ONS Member Sticker:

{{Member|ONS|name=Ostermann}}

General Info on Ostermann

According to Forebears, the family name Ostermann „is derived from the Swedish, German and Ashenazic words oster/öster, meaning 'east', and mann/man, meaning 'man'.“

The name is mostly found in Europe, where 88 percent of Ostermann are found. It also occurs in The United States, where 8 percent reside.

According to Kroiß (2023), the earliest mention of the name (in its variant Osterman) was in 1389 in Lüneburg, Germany.[1]

The distribution of the name Ostermann spread in Germany from

  • in 1890: a broad band between Hamburg and Cologne, with smaller pockets in Palatinate, Alsace, Thuringia, and the lower Oder river, to
  • in 1996: widespread cluster bands throughout West Germany, from Schleswig-Holstein, Hamburg and Lower Saxony in the North, via Northrhine-Westphalia, Hesse and Rhineland-Palatinate in the middle, to Saarland, Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria in the South, plus a strong cluster in Berlin.[2]

Research Pages and Categories

At the start of the Ostermann ONS in January 2024, two research pages were started:

In the following months, more research projects were added:

See also project goals for further ideas. Help is always appreciated!

In addition, here is a list of location categories with their corresponding space pages of Ostermann statistics (space pages, so far, only for some Germany and all United States categories) which hopefully will inspire profile creation/categorization as well as further research pages:

Australia, Categories and Research

Austria, Categories and Research

Belgium, Categories and Research

Canada, Categories and Research

Denmark, Categories and Research

Finland, Categories and Research

France, Categories and Research

Germany, Categories and Research

Hungary, Categories and Research

Mexico, Categories and Research

Netherlands, Categories and Research

Poland, Categories and Research

Russia, Categories and Research

Slovenia, Categories and Research

Sweden, Categories and Research

Ukraine, Categories and Research

United States, Categories and Research

So far, no sources have been found for Osterman(n) in Delaware.

Membership

For more detailed introductions, we have a Team Page in addition to the following simple list (in chronological order of joining):

  1. Oliver Stegen
  2. Siegfried Keim
  3. Jeff Jahn

Honorary Members

  1. Anne Unfried (honorary member for her Ostermann start-up help in Rheinland-Pfalz and Saarland)
  2. Vanessa Hecker (honorary member for her sourcery incl. expanding and connecting various Ostermann branches)

Related Surnames and Surname Variants

  • Osterman, only one N (e. g. in USA)
  • Oosterman, double O (e. g. in the Netherlands)
  • Österman(n), with umlaut Ö (e. g. in Germany or Scandinavia); NB: no distinction in WikiTree lists
  • Oesterman/Oestermann, with Oe (e. g. in the Netherlands, or as variant of Ö in Germany)
  • Остерман, in Cyrillic (e.g. in Russia)
  • Easterman (as translation in anglophone countries)

Ostermann Notables

At the start of this study, the earliest Ostermanns on WikiTree were Barbara (Ostermann) Stintzing and Dionysi Ostermann, both born in 1613. Within days, they were overtaken. Here are the earliest Ostermann in their order of becoming the oldest on WikiTree:

Other Osterman(n) notables that have their own Wikipedia article are:

Sources

  1. ↑ Kroiß, Daniel. Ostermann, 2023, in: Digitales Familiennamenwörterbuch Deutschlands; http://www.namenforschung.net/id/name/777/1
  2. ↑ "Namensverbreitungskarte" (name distribution map) at https://nvk.genealogy.net/map/1996:Ostermann%20,1890:Ostermann

Resources on WikiTree

Project Goals

Of the original six goals at the start of the ONS, the following three can still be considered a priority:

The other three original goals have been reached to a certain extent, and it could be considered secondary priority to expand on them now:

  • Create categorization structure
  • Create Ostermann research pages by country, like in Alexandra‘s exemplary Geisinger Name Study
  • Tag all Ostermann profiles on WikiTree with Ostermann Name Study sticker

Achievement Timeline

An overview of the Ostermann ONS achievements can also be seen at our statistics table.

January 2024

February 2024

March 2024

April 2024

  • First quarter report on G2G

May 2024

June 2024

July 2024

  • Second quarter report on G2G
  • Completed category and space page links for United States

September 2024

October 2024





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