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Not funny and I wasn't trolling. I'm not blind and can see the South Asian. If it weren't for that part the results would be fairly Moldovan. And for that matter, Tzigane ancestry is more common in Romanian-speaking areas than in Russian-speaking. At least in relative numbers if not absolute.Quote:
Originally Posted by Aspirin
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Originally Posted by Leto
Just because they might score like a Moldovan, doesn't make them one. If you mix a Greek and a Lithuanian, you will more or less get a Moldovan/Eastern Romanian.Quote:
Originally Posted by Aspirin
Do these names look Moldovan to you?
Email: Kit Number: RJ7520263 Name: Kit Number: ZV3935167 Name: Kit Number: LY3203723 Name:
The email points to a Russian from Moscow.
I wasn't saying that person is supposed to be a full Moldovan. Then again, Moldovan ancestry isn't something super rare in Russia, especially in cosmopolitan Moscow. It isn't very common either but can be found nevertheless.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ion Basescul
She's not Moldovan, as in ethnic, at all. Her native language is Russian and she didn't list Romanian on the CV. If Vitaliy is her husband, then he scores like a West Ukrainian. Alfred Bodrov looks like a half German, so perhaps a descendant of one of the German prisoners.Quote:
Originally Posted by Leto
In Moldova it's the other way around, i.e. more common in Russian-speaking areas as Romas themselves are likelier to be Russian rather than Romanian speakers.Quote:
Originally Posted by Leto
Okay. I apologize if my post was offensive. Is that because of the South Asian? Tomorrow I'll post a Belorussian claiming he is Moldovan :cool:Quote:
Originally Posted by Ion Basescul
Why prisoners, lol. There were almost two million Volga Germans in the Soviet Union. Another baseless claim.
I mean in RELATIVE numbers. Romania has way more than Russia per capita.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ion Basescul
Ah, it's not about South Asian at all. It's not like we don't have Moldovans in our spreadsheet with that amount of South Asian. I would have thought that she's Moldovan too, but this is why it's important to verify the kits.Quote:
Originally Posted by Leto
I was suspicious because of the forename firstly, Lyubov, which to me came as a clue that she is at least half Russophone (be it Russian, Ukrainian, Gagauz, Bulgarian, Gypsy, Jewish, etc.). Then the next clue came when I looked her kit up and saw that the surname is Russian. Then I saw her related kits, which are also all non-Moldovan ethnics. Then the last hint came when I actually found her online as a person from Moscow for whom Russian is listed as Native language and German as beginner. Romanian is nowhere to be seen, even at beginner level.
Therefore, there's no clue to point at her tracing any part of ancestry from Moldova.
We don't have any migration from Romania. Moldova is way poorer and in Moldova there are less than 10k.Quote:
Originally Posted by Leto
Ethnic
groupcensus 19591 census 19702 census 19793 census 19894 census 20045 census 20145 Number % Number % Number % Number % Number % Number % Moldovans8 1,886,566 65.4 2,303,916 64.6 2,525,687 63.9 2,794,749 64.5 2,742,231 69.6 2,068,058 75.1 Romanians 1,663 0.1 1,581 0.0 1,657 0.0 2,477 0.1 73,529 1.9 192,800 7.0 Ukrainians 420,820 14.6 506,560 14.2 560,679 14.2 600,366 13.8 442,475 11.2 181,035 6.6 Gagauzians 95,856 3.3 124,902 3.5 138,000 3.5 153,548 3.5 151,596 3.8 126,010 4.6 Russians 292,930 10.2 414,444 11.6 505,730 12.8 562,069 13.0 369,896 9.4 111,726 4.1 Bulgarians 61,652 2.1 73,776 2.1 80,665 2.0 88,419 2.0 79,520 2.0 51,867 1.9 Romani 7,265 0.3 9,235 0.3 10,666 0.3 11,571 0.3 12,778 0.3 9,323 0.3
She could be that Belorussian ;).Quote:
Originally Posted by Leto
I'm looking at her matches and there's a certain Sherbakov (same family) that's her relative at 28cM. He has a family tree and is from Belarus on both sides.
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Alexander Parfirievich Sherbakov, b. 10 MAY 1933, Belarus, d. ABT 1993, Belarus
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| Stanislav Stanislavovich Galkiewicz, b. ABT 1910, Belarus, Belarus
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Sofia Stanislavovna Galkiewicz, b. 20 DEC 1933, Belarus, d. ABT 1993, Belarus
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Lidia Petrovna Butskiewicz, b. ABT 1913, Belarus
Maybe she's an orphan from Moldova, who was adopted by a family from Moscow? But that's a wild guess without any proofs, especially exacerbated by the fact that she doesn't appear to match anyone from Moldova or Romania or Ukraine in her closest matches.