Post the list of surnames of people from your grandparents' places of birth

[Ion Basescul]

Should I do it for my Romanian/Moldovan matches in MH, or is that too much speculative?

Anything you want

[Dirdepo]

MDA -

Malyuta
Filirchuk
Sobolevsky

ROU -

Ciobanu
Nenea
Cutas
Jurjescu
Cailean
Alexandriu
Nanu
Bita
Hendea
Moldovan
Turczi
Marinescu
Vlea
Geana
Popescu
Enache
Sigheartau

There is some from MH

[Ion Basescul]

MDA -

Malyuta
Filirchuk
Sobolevsky

ROU -

Ciobanu
Nenea
Cutas
Jurjescu
Cailean
Alexandriu
Nanu
Bita
Hendea
Moldovan
Turczi
Marinescu
Vlea
Geana
Popescu
Enache
Sigheartau

There is some from MH

It's interesting how you match with ethnic Romanians in Romania, but no Moldovans/Romanians in Moldova. Probably because most are tested abroad, since MyHeritage automatically assigns a country flag based on where the kit was activated. If you have Moldova in your family tree, then you can filter by "shared place" and you will get them, regardless of their country flag. Otherwise it's harder, and has to be done manually by checking the surnames.

[Lemminkäinen]

My list. There should be many Swedish surnames, but in Western Finland, as well as in Sweden, only middle and upper class used surnames and farmers used patronyms and from the beginning of the 1900s people took new surnames, usually in Finland ending to the syllabse la or lä.

AHOKANGAS, AITTAMAA, ALAKULJU, ALAPERE, ALAPERET
ALSTADIUS, ANDREAE, ANGERMAN, ANGLENIUS, ANNALA, ARCTOPHILACIUS, ASPEGREN, ASTADIUS, BELTAR, BOCKMÖLLER, BURE, BURMAN, BÄCK, CALAMNIUS, CARLANDER, CARWITZ, CASPARI, CRATZ, MCCULLOUGH, DOUGLAS, EHRENSKIÖLD, ENQVIST, ERIKKILÄ, FISKARI, FLANDER, FOGELBERG, FORBUS, FORDELL, FORSELIUS, FORSMAN, FRESE, FROSTERUS, GAMMAL, GESTRICIUS, GRUBBE, GRUBB, GULLE, GULL, GUMSE, HAAPAKANGAS, HAAPAKOSKI, HAAPAMAA, HAFFMAN, HAIPUNEN, HAIPUS, HALMEENTAKA, HALONEN, HARJULAINEN, HARMANEN, HATUINEN, HAVANA, HEIKKILÄ, HENTILÄ, HIETALA, HILTUNEN, HONKA, HOPPEN, HURNANEN, INNES, ISOMAA, ISOPERE, ISTERI, JUNNI, JUNNILA, JUNTUNEN, JUURUS, JÄSKELÄ, KALAPUDAS, KANANEN, KANGAS, KANKAANPÄÄ, KASTARI, KATAJA, KETTUNEN, KILPUA, KIPPOLA, KLEMETTILÄ, KOPSA, KORPELA, KORPI, KOSKELA, KOTAMAA, KURJENPERÄ, KURTTI, KÅCKO, KOKKO, KÄHÄSAARI, KÄRÄNEN, LAHDENPERÄ, LEHTIKANGAS, LEHTIRANTA, MACLEOD, MCLEOD, LEPPÄLUOTO, LETZLE, LIMINGIUS, LINDENIUS, LITENDAL, LITHMAN, LITHOVIUS, LITTOINEN, LUUKELA, MAHLAKAARTO, MAIJALA, MATKASELKÄ, MATTILA, MIKKOLA, MYLLYKANGAS, MYLLYLÄ, MÄMMI, MÄÄTTÄ, NASI, NEVALA, NEVANPERÄ, NIKKILÄ, NIKULA, NOPOLA, NURKCERUS, NURKKA, OJA, OJALA, OJATALO, OLLILA, ORAVASJÄRVI, PAAKKOLA, PAKKONEN, PARRILA, PASO, PEKKALA, PELTONIEMI, PELTTARI, PERÄLÄ, PETRI, PICTORIUS, PIETILÄ, PIKKARAINEN, POKELA, PRÅCKO, PROKKO, PURALA, PYKÖLÄ, PYRRÖ, PYY, PYYKÖLÄ, RASK, RAUTIO, REPOLA, REYER, von ROSEN, ROSS, SACKO, SAKKO, SALMELA, SALO, SIEPPALA, SIMILÄ, SIMPLICIUS, SIPONMAA, SKEPER, SMEDBERG, SOUKKA, STOR-HEIKKILÄ, von STREITBACH, SUANDO, SUVANTO, SUOMELA, SURSILL, SUTELA, SUTINEN, SVALA, TANSKALA, TAVASTIUS, TIKKA, TIKKALA, TIRILÄ, TORNIO, TRANA, TURCK, TYBÄKINOJA, TYYPÄKINOJA, TÖRMÄLÄ, UHLBRANDT, UKKO, WAARA, VAARA, WAICKO, VAIKKO, VASKURI, WESSEL, WESTZYNTHIUS, WIDJEBOM, WIGELIUS, VIITALA, VILOI, WIRPI, VIRPI, WUOLU, VUOLU, VUORMA, YLIKANGAS, YLITALO, ZIMMERMAN, ZYNTH, ÅNGERMAN, ÄNGESLEVÄ

[Dirdepo]

It's interesting how you match with ethnic Romanians in Romania, but no Moldovans/Romanians in Moldova. Probably because most are tested abroad, since MyHeritage automatically assigns a country flag based on where the kit was activated. If you have Moldova in your family tree, then you can filter by "shared place" and you will get them, regardless of their country flag. Otherwise it's harder, and has to be done manually by checking the surnames.

The Romanians are from Romania and Moldovans are from Moldova but they are Ukrainians

[alnortedelsur]

It's to hard for me to find a database of the frequent surnames of the Venezuelan states from my Venezuelan paternal family side (Guarico on my paternal grandfather side and Barinas on my paternal grandmother side), but I can say that most surnames in there are of Castilian Spanish origin (ie. ordinary Spanish surnames).

On my maternal side of the family (both maternal grandparents being from Mallorca, Spain) most common surnames are these (many of them Castilian Spanish, but also many others of them typical Mallorcan proper surnames):

https://www.apellidos.top/provincias/islas-baleares

PS: My paternal grand grandfather was an Itallian immigrant, and I even inherited his Italian surname, but that's not relevant, since is 4 generations back, and Italian surnames are much less common than Spanish surnames in those Venezuelan states.

[Kriptc06]

So, your ancestry is basically 3/4 Northwestern and 1/4 Central, because Ungheni is usually counted as Central.



There are some Ukrainian influenced surnames here and there, but overall they are mostly Moldovan/Romanian, like the names of the villages.

my bessarabian bulgarian side is from Taraclia, all surnames are slavic, except one that seems romanian on a maternal side, Bubã, is that romanian? it's far, even before they moved to bessarabia.

[Tommie]

my bessarabian bulgarian side is from Taraclia, all surnames are slavic, except one that seems romanian on a maternal side, Bubã, is that romanian? it's far, even before they moved to bessarabia.

Yes, Bubă (boil/pustule) is Romanian.

Etymology: Uncertain. Possibly from Vulgar Latin *buba from Late Latin būbō, būbōnēs, from Ancient Greek βουβών (boubṓn)

[Kriptc06]

Yes, Bubă (boil/pustule) is Romanian.

Etymology: Uncertain. Possibly from Vulgar Latin *buba from Late Latin būbō, būbōnēs, from Ancient Greek βουβών (boubṓn)

that's very cool! It's on my great-grandfather's mother's side, I'll try to look more into it. another question Is Zamfira, also a romanian? I found it written as both Zamfira and Zamfirov (sounds slavic with +ov ending)