>Even better, we share the same DNA mechanism and a lot of actual DNA with pretty everything up to amoebas - regardless of any agreement.
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>>Anyway, I just found two young people with last name Berezniker (one from Horlivka and one from Moscow) on a popular Russian site, thus were my questions.
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>Just as happens to me - people here seem to think that my name and last name are sort of unique or rare, when they actually are not. At any time during my school years, there were at least two more guys named Dragan in my class. One of them was a Nedeljkov (without the -ić) and he was my deskmate for a couple of years (you can imagine the confusion we created).
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>I've come across maybe two dozen other people named Nedeljković, and wasn't related to any of them. The name is probably a sort of an open source name - was invented in parallel in several areas in separate occasions.

Sergey's last name is pretty rare, so he may be right in his assumption that all people with this last name are relatives.

Similar story with my last name (my husband's last name). He actually worked in Mormon's archives to find his ancestors. And then we had some interesting e-mail conversation with people from Argentina who turned out to be distant relatives...

As for my own last name I always had several people sharing it. In school there was a boy in the other class and our teacher once gave him my grade which made him very happy :)

In the University I had two other boys with the same last name in parallel groups...