Guatemala is a country in Central America bordered south to Mexico. In Guatemala there are rain forests, volcanos and also old Maya ruins.
Since the 1870s many German Immigrants settled around Alta Verapaz and worked for coffee growing.
If you search for «Thut in Guatemala» on Facebook, you’ll find many native Thut’s.
After researches of Susana Palma, an Guatemalan genealogist, the Thut’s from Guatemala are no descendants from any Transylvanian/German Immigrants, but they are from the native name «Tut» (pronounce: «toot»).
The surname «Tut» is out from the ethnic group of the Q’eqchi (Kekchí), which belong to the Maya people. Thut sometimes is written with «h» and sometimes witouth «h» (There might exist more «Tut» than «Thut»).
Before the beginning of the Spanish conquest of Guatemala in the 1520s, Q’eqchi› settlements were concentrated in what are now the departments of Alta Verapazand Baja Verapaz. Over the course of the succeeding centuries a series of land displacements, resettlements, persecutions and migrations resulted in a wider dispersal of Q’eqchi› communities into other regions of Guatemala (Izabal, Petén, El Quiché), southern Belize (Toledo District), and smaller numbers in southern Mexico (Chiapas, Campeche). While most notably present in northern Alta Verapaz and southern Petén, contemporary Q’eqchi› languagespeakers are the most widely spread geographically of all Maya peoples in Guatemala.
Based on this fact, there might live also some Thut/Tut in other countries around Guatemala.