u/Eliasz_Bogdanescu

Hi all! I continue to receive results from my relatives. This time, I'm sharing the results of my grandma from Rivne Oblast.

This is the first time I'm seeing a subgroup in the Baltic marker section. According to a village legend, her family came from the “North,” which could mean the lands of Lithuania, Poland, or Belarus.

Her family is still referred to as the “Surdyki,” even though they all have different surname now. As I was told, “Surdyk” may have been their old surname, as nobody knows what the word actually means.

She is from the western part of Ukraine. Her family, at least on her father's side, lived in the same area for centuries. Not sure where the Jewish and Germanic markers came from.

3/4 of my grandparents are from former Volyn Governorate (current Ukrainian Volhynia and Rivne Oblast) and 1/4 is from Cherkasy Oblast.