“What kind of things does it tell you and if you were an orphan how can this help?”
My father was adopted and I wanted to know his family origins. It will show you how many DNA matches you have with other people around the world. They have a feature on the website that will show you a map of the matches as well as getting a list. For myself I’m mostly Irish, Scots and Welsh.
If you sign up and list your email address other people that match your DNA can contact you. Many people are looking for relative.
I had the FTDNA and the MTDNA done. If you can get the 64 marker test.
I know the village in Europe where my father’s ancestors lived for hundreds of years. I know the town in Germany where my mother’s mother’s mother’s mother’s mother was living in the 1830s. I don’t know if I would learn anything more from these tests. There are other parts of my ancestry that I would like to know more about, but the Y-chromosome line and the mitochondrial DNA lines are well-documented.
Thank you... I wondered how that would work if you don’t have a known bio relative.