Posted By:	Jim Lutz
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	Subject:	Lutz, originally Lutsch
	Post Date:	October 14, 1999 at 16:18:07
	Message URL:	http://genforum.genealogy.com/lutz/messages/355.html
	Forum:	Lutz Family Genealogy Forum
	Forum URL:	http://genforum.genealogy.com/lutz/

If your looking for surname Lutz and you're researching southeastern Wisconsin, you may be "looking up the wrong tree". My ancestors emigrated to US in 1879-1881 from a region of then Prussia called Pomerania. There name was LUTSCH. Most of them were or became farmers west of Milwaukee, from 90th & Silver Spring to Kettle Morraine. Around 1900, they ALL changed their names from LUTSCH to LUTZ! They were a prolific group-- literally hundreds of offspring-- and chances are you are one of them! I have researched Lutsch back to 1800. Other names: Voelz,Horn, Abel, Schmidt, Schroeder, Gerlach, Goetsch, Jeffery, Hedmark, etc. Most anxious to hear from you.