Can you give a rough idea of some of your results please as I am considering doing a dna analysis
. Could it lead to you finding direct relatives too or is it just ethnicity percentages
Are.t we lucky to have people on here who can explain clearly in layman terms
The following may be of some help (its from a reply I gave a while back)
Briefly, there are three main types of tests
a) yDNA this test can be taken by males only and gives your direct male line ie father, grandfather, great grandfather etc.
b) mtDNA this test can be taken by males and females and gives your direct female line ie mother, grandmother, great grandmother etc.
c) autosomal DNA sometimes called family finder. This test looks across all your lines and is what is used to find relatives anywhere from your direct male to direct female lines and also to determine your ethnic origins however a word of warning the ethnic origins given in some cases amount to nothing more than badly researched guesses and so should not be taken to heart when they don't say what you want. This test is really only meaningful for about five generations back
Haplogroups are a way of classifying people by looking at mutations to see when one group of people diverged from another. These can be used to track the movements of people across the word
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup