I don't know that he is. He is my cousin. We connect back in the 1600s. I descend from Anna Stenger who married Peter Walter. He descends from Jean Guilliam Stenger who was her brother. I don't have all this in front of me so doing this from memory but I think he was married to one of the 3 Betz sisters. Or maybe it was an Andres... but these families intermarried for centuries.