Moldovan/Romanian GEDmatch Resuts

[Aspirin]

Double post.

[Ion Basescul]

What percent of the population live in the North, Center and South of the Republic respectively? I guess Chisinau is mixed like any other capital city.

Chisinau is obviously mixed with people from all over the country, plus historic and new minorities.

I'd guess like 35% North, 45% Centre and 20% South maybe.
The North seems to be the region with the highest rate of old people and lowest fertility.
Or maybe the fertility is like everywhere else, but working age people just migrate either to Chisinau or abroad more than in other regions.

[Leto]

Is mixed, exist people from every corner of the country and every corner of Soviet Union.

According to the 2004 census it was 72% Moldovan/Romanian and in 2014 the native share increased to 79%.

[Leto]

Interestingly I once met a Russian girl with the surname Kalarash (I know it's not the Romanian spelling). She said she was 1/4 Moldovan, 3/4 Russian. Looked part Asian with light pigmentation.

[Aspirin]

According to the 2004 census it was 72% Moldovan/Romanian and in 2014 the native share increased to 79%.

People just move from province into the city, in the future this city will be more and more Moldavian. Many minorities, especially from former Soviet countries, form the local Russian speaking community, since many who identify like Russians here are mixed.

[Ion Basescul]

According to the 2004 census it was 72% Moldovan/Romanian and in 2014 the native share increased to 79%.

Because people get culturally assimilated and there are a lot of mixed marriages. People who are halfies will usually check Moldovan or Romanian in the census, as opposed to their other side.
My mom for example checked Romanian both in 2004 and 2014.

[Ion Basescul]

Interestingly I once met a Russian girl with the surname Kalarash (I know it's not the Romanian spelling). She said she was 1/4 Moldovan, 3/4 Russian. Looked part Asian with light pigmentation.

And I saw a person on GEDmatch with the surname Chebotarev (from our Cebotari), who had Belarussians and Estonians as closest matches, at like 2 and 4 distance.

[Leto]

People just move from province into the city, in the future this city will be more and more Moldavian. Plus many minorities, especially from former Soviet countries, form the local Russian speaking community, since many who identify like Russians here are mixed.

Do you think Moldo-Slavic mixes tend to lean to Russian identity, not Moldovan?

I can tell you that in Ukraine and Belarus many people with roots in Russia proper have switched to Ukr and Bel identity respectively since 1991. Especially mixed people. But those are extremely close peoples, Moldovans are more different from them.

[Aspirin]

Do you think Moldo-Slavic mixes tend to lean to Russian identity, not Moldovan?

Depends of the parents.

[Leto]

And I saw a person on GEDmatch with the surname Chebotarev (from our Cebotari), who had Belarussians and Estonians as closest matches, at like 2 and 4 distance.

Чеботарёв is a normal Russian surname, I knew people with that surname. At least I had no idea it may be Moldovan.