Originally Posted by
Vega7
I found this thread and others on this forum while searching for information about the region my family is from.
My entire ancestry traces back to the former territory of Bukovina, Austria. 5/8 were Ukrainian and 3/8 were Romanian. 23andme tests of my family (including siblings) have been incredibly consistent with this as well as documentation of the ethnic makeup of the region in the late 1800s and early 1900s when my family came to Canada.
Ukrainian ancestry traces back to, in order of highest concentration - 1. Ivano-Frankivsk 2. Ternopil 3. Lviv 4. Chernivtsi
Romanian ancestry traces back to, in order of highest concentration - 1. Suceava 2. Botosani 3. Cluj 4. Bistrita-Nasaud
I've read a number of threads on this forum of people discussing this region. People tend to include the Romanian population as 'Moldadivan' when the actual history is more complicated than that. There was a massive migration from Transylvania to there in the 1700s and 1800s and most Romanians there were eventually of northern Transylvanian origin. Although my own Romanian relatives were from older villages from the eastern periphery that got fewer (if any) Transylvanian migrants. The Ukrainians likewise were almost exclusively migrants from the Ukrainian region of Halych (Galicia).
Anyway, I made an account since I'm curious to run my own family's DNA the way you guys have in this thread. I've never learned as much about my Romanian side since very few came to Canada at the time and most Romanians in Canada are recent migrants, mostly from the south.
I have a couple questions though. On 23andme, there is an option to download the raw data. Which confidence interval should I use? I can set it from 50% to 90%. Secondly, where do I upload the data? Thanks.