Moldovan/Romanian GEDmatch Results v2

[Ion Basescul]

Moldovan Ukrainians are probably very similar to Ukrainians/Rusyns from Chernivtsi and Zakarpattia.

In Similitude Map Lemko average is closer even to Austria than to most of Romania, except Moldova:

Not necessarily, as some arrived recently from various parts of Ukraine and Russia (as in the past 100 years). But those with traceable family from the Moldovan countryside are indeed similar to highlanders.

Here they are:

N_Atlantic	Baltic	West_Med	West_Asian	East_Med	Red_Sea	South_Asian	East_Asian	Siberian	Amerindian	Oceanian	NE_African	Sub-Saharan
24.82	40.06	14.14	5.78	8.66	1.42	1.15	0	1.83	0.97	0	0.65	0.49
22.50	46.16	11.38	8.35	7.16	0	0	0	1.84	0.57	0.71	0	1.34
31.58	45.34	6.36	6.06	4.52	0	1.13	0	2.48	0.87	0.81	0.85	0
26.54	37.53	12.93	9.52	6.52	2.11	1.42	0.52	2.04	0.89	0	0	0
23.24	42.33	14.39	7.53	6.33	0	1.22	0	2.70	0.62	0.07	1.10	0.47
29.08	43.59	11.28	4.32	8.26	0	1.73	0	0	0.99	0.30	0	0.45
25.50	39.14	13.68	10.09	7.49	0.57	0.24	0.75	1.75	0	0.39	0.10	0.30
24.49	40.51	12.86	5.03	10.83	1.66	1.63	1.55	0	0.54	0.12	0.77	0
26.60	36.87	14.39	5.74	9.35	2.31	0.72	0.60	1.58	0	1.22	0.50	0.09

Those in red are rural. The first red one, the last red one and the last black one are from Transnistria, but all the ancestors of the first one were born just nearby in Ukraine, like 10km off of Transnistria.

[Aspirin]

I made a quick conclusion naming this guy Gagauz/Bulgarian because of his results, he clearly is not.

Eurogenes K13:

Population
North_Atlantic 20.92 Pct
Baltic 28.56 Pct
West_Med 14.80 Pct
West_Asian 9.67 Pct
East_Med 22.16 Pct
Red_Sea 0.86 Pct
South_Asian 1.64 Pct
East_Asian -
Siberian 0.64 Pct
Amerindian -
Oceanian -
Northeast_African -
Sub-Saharan 0.75 Pct

Single Population Sharing:

# Population (source) Distance
1 Bulgarian 5.96
2 Romanian 6.65
3 Serbian 8.19
4 Moldavian 11.49
5 Greek_Thessaly 12.97
6 Croatian 14.04
7 Hungarian 14.84
8 Austrian 18.68
9 Tuscan 19.57
10 Central_Greek 19.7
11 Ukrainian_Lviv 19.81
12 Italian_Abruzzo 19.9
13 East_German 20.1
14 North_Italian 20.44
15 South_Polish 20.46
16 Ukrainian 20.72
17 East_Sicilian 20.83
18 Ashkenazi 20.96
19 West_Sicilian 21.12
20 Southwest_Russian 22.83

[Peterski]

What is the settlement history of Caplani and Stefan Voda District? Was Caplani part of Budjak?

Someone told me that people in Caplani might be "Moldovanized Bulgarians."

[Ion Basescul]

I made a quick conclusion naming this guy Gagauz/Bulgarian because of his results, he clearly is not.

Eurogenes K13:

Population
North_Atlantic 20.92 Pct
Baltic 28.56 Pct
West_Med 14.80 Pct
West_Asian 9.67 Pct
East_Med 22.16 Pct
Red_Sea 0.86 Pct
South_Asian 1.64 Pct
East_Asian -
Siberian 0.64 Pct
Amerindian -
Oceanian -
Northeast_African -
Sub-Saharan 0.75 Pct

Single Population Sharing:

# Population (source) Distance
1 Bulgarian 5.96
2 Romanian 6.65
3 Serbian 8.19
4 Moldavian 11.49
5 Greek_Thessaly 12.97
6 Croatian 14.04
7 Hungarian 14.84
8 Austrian 18.68
9 Tuscan 19.57
10 Central_Greek 19.7
11 Ukrainian_Lviv 19.81
12 Italian_Abruzzo 19.9
13 East_German 20.1
14 North_Italian 20.44
15 South_Polish 20.46
16 Ukrainian 20.72
17 East_Sicilian 20.83
18 Ashkenazi 20.96
19 West_Sicilian 21.12
20 Southwest_Russian 22.83

Do you know that he is from Moldova? I can contact him if you want to PM me.

[Aspirin]

Do you know that he is from Moldova? I can contact him if you want to PM me.

I posted his results already, and surnames of his four grandparents. He is from South.

Spoiler!

[Ion Basescul]

I posted his results already, and surnames of his four grandparents. He is from South.

Spoiler!

I managed to miss that somehow. So he's ethnic Moldovan/Romanian, but russified (assuming from forename)? Those surnames seem to point at Leova or Cantemir. Do you know the district(s)?

[Aspirin]

What is the settlement history of Caplani and Stefan Voda District? Was Caplani part of Budjak?

Someone told me that people in Caplani might be "Moldovanized Bulgarians."

Yes, this village is located in Budjak, by surnames they don't look like assimilated Bulgarians, but such village exist in that area, and is seen in popular surnames carried by inhabitants.

[Leto]

I managed to miss that somehow. So he's ethnic Moldovan/Romanian, but russified (assuming from forename)? Those surnames seem to point at Leova or Cantemir. Do you know the district(s)?

Don't Moldovans have mostly Orthodox/Slavonic given names? How is that Russification then?

[Aspirin]

I managed to miss that somehow. So he's ethnic Moldovan/Romanian, but russified (assuming from forename)? Those surnames seem to point at Leova or Cantemir. Do you know the district(s)?

I don't think he is russified, Lemgrant gave me his results a year and three months ago, is before I saw all these result posted after this here, and I quickly made a conclusion what he is Gagauz because of results, and surnames of his grandparents, but now since I know more, his result clearly show what he is not Gagauz/Bulgarian with such high Baltic, and have just mixed ancestry.

[Ion Basescul]

Don't Moldovans have mostly Orthodox/Slavonic given names? How is that Russification then?

The spelling is different, although for older people it is not uncommon to find the Russian spelling, due to the trends of the Soviet times.