The Lutge Family in Australia

Here's an article that's just been published in Descent, The Journal of the Society of Australian Genealogists, where I detail recent AncestryDNA matches that evidence Mary Ann (born about 1869) and Hanna Maria (born about 1872) are the children of Peter Benson Lutge and Mary Bonner.   The transcript is also attached.   If you're interested in taking an AncestryDNA test to further our Lutge research, please contact me at chrisw9953@gmail.com. We hear the mantra that “genetic genealogy is only one of the tools of family historians”…but what a powerful tool it can be!  With a well researched family tree and understanding where your DNA matches fit within that tree, you can answer some niggling questions.  Here’s a recent breakthrough that I’ve made… One reason for starting my family history journey was to find out more about the people in these pictures which are over 120 years old.  The first is my great-grandfather, John Henry Lutge, who was