Only some of them.
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If you were to go on Anthrogenica, there is a clear record on there in the Romanian thread that I'm maintaining, that I was the first one to question the authenticity of the Stefan Voda samples. At that time I made the claim that they are probably Gagauz. But after a while Reich released their exact location and name of the village and it is clear on casata that the place is fully Moldovan/Romanian. I personally don't have a strong counterargument against his data. The samples that I posted from Cahul, one from Ungheni and one with the surname Popa are probably pretty similar to them. There is also another one who is shifted to the South in a similar manner, which I will share in the next update, surname Pindus. It is non-existent in Romania, but it has 21 families in Chisinau. It is not found primarily in the city though, but the villages around it.
This surname exist in Transylvania. From Moldova is imposible.
In this village this surname is most frequent, and is very mixed with Ukrainains/Russians. Plus the surname sounds very non-local, this is the reason why he is so rare.
https://localitati.casata.md/index.p...litate&id=3154