About us
The Romanian Moldova and Bucovina YDNA Project is intended as an attempt at understanding the origins of the enigmatic community of Moldova’s Roman-Catholic population.
While the Csango community (Bacau and Neamt) remains our main target, we are, nonetheless, hoping to build a database that will encompass male lineages from all linguistic and religious groups that historically inhabited Moldova.
We expect to see a diverse YDNA haplogroup spread among Romanians but anticipate that a distinguishable distribution pattern will emerge for the region east of the Carpathians. Largely explained by the Carpathian Arch’s important contribution in migration patterns — we set out to identify and chart this specific distribution thus making sense of Moldavia's unique history.
We set out to determine whether the YDNA haplogroup distribution among the Csango’s of Bacau and Neamt follow any particular pattern — namely, could it speak of a heterogeneous population (consisting of ethnic Hungarians, Romanians, Szeklers, etc.) or, alternatively, can we find a similar distribution among the Hungarian population?
Or else, are the Csango’s genetic markers simply indistinguishable from the nowadays Romanians of Transylvania?
With targeted testing and, hopefully, the help of other people that are eager to test — we are confident that we’ll be able to answer some of these questions.
We expect to see a diverse YDNA haplogroup spread among Romanians but anticipate that a distinguishable distribution pattern will emerge for the region east of the Carpathians. Largely explained by the Carpathian Arch’s important contribution in migration patterns — we set out to identify and chart this specific distribution thus making sense of Moldavia's unique history.