Moldovan/Romanian GEDmatch Resuts

[Ion Basescul]

From Romania Moldova.

M927872 - both parents from Vaslui county, rural area.

M272006 - both parents from Vaslui county, rural area.

M080231 - Botosani county father/Iasi county mother.

M827504 - Neamț county, from Tîrgu Neamț.

We have everyone, apart from M080231, which was deleted from GEDmatch.
ERROR: Kit number |M080231| not found.

[Ion Basescul]

http://nume.ottomotor.ro/en

I'm trying to think based on personal experience.

A+name+ței/sei is the most common type of surname (I mean type, random surnames are more common) in Romanian Moldova, despite it being originary from the upper half of the area. Adochiței, Atodiresei, Adomniței, Avasiliței, etc.

Popescu is somewhat common. After this one, -escu names are as common as names ending in -achi/-ichi, indicating Greek ancestry.

Munteanu is a common surname.



I'm basing this on K13/15 results, not MyHeritage/23andme.

Forebears.io is also a good source of surnames. If you click on the country then it will go to a lower administrative level. That works for Romania and Moldova too.

[WeirdLookingFellow]

Forebears.io is also a good source of surnames. If you click on the country then it will go to a lower administrative level. That works for Romania and Moldova too.

Interesting, quite useful actually. What's cool is that I can see that the incidence of my surname is very common in both Vaslui and Ungheni, the Rep. Moldova county right next to it.

[Ion Basescul]

Interesting, quite useful actually. What's cool is that I can see that the incidence of my surname is very common in both Vaslui and Ungheni, the Rep. Moldova county right next to it.

Yeah, mine is pretty common in R. Moldova, but actually more widespread in Transylvania than Moldavia.
Either someone had a lot of sex in Hunedoara or it spread from there East. I think that it spread from there because the village of the same name is recorded there in 1330 in Magyar records, changed names to a Saxon variation in 1448, then returned to the old name in 1642 and remained as such until this day. Thank god for arcanum.hu, which has a wealth of records on this.

[WeirdLookingFellow]

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My grandpa says his paternal great-grandfather probably came from Ardeal. I highly doubt it since our family name is technically non-existent in Transylvania, it only exists in Moldova mostly and sometimes Wallachia. I have also checked an old marriage registry used for looking up names and it does not exist.

Of course, it's possible that he just took a family name when he settled in Vaslui.

[Aspirin]

Forebears.io is also a good source of surnames. If you click on the country then it will go to a lower administrative level. That works for Romania and Moldova too.

This site is bullshit, use this one: https://www.hartanumeromanesti.eu/en/

My surname.

[Ion Basescul]

This site is bullshit, use this one: https://www.hartanumeromanesti.eu/en/

My surname.

Nice source, which I wasn't aware of, but it doesn't change much for my surname. And I think that casata is almost identical too. Yours seems very popular in both countries. Regățean cu acte

[Aspirin]

Nice source, which I wasn't aware of, but it doesn't change much for my surname. And I think that casata is almost identical too. Yours seems very popular in both countries. Regățean

My surname is very specific Moldavian, is mostly present in Moldova region, outside of this region, people with such surname have high probability to have ancestry from Moldova region.

[ixulescu]

My surname is very specific Moldavian, is mostly present in Moldova region, outside of this region, people with such surname have high probability to have ancestry from Moldova region.

still regatean.

[Aspirin]

still regatean.

In your dreams.