I am adopted, so are there any genealogy testings that can help me find out my ethnicity?
There are 3 types of DNA. Y goes from father to son only. In other words you get your Y from your father, his father, his father and so on. Mitochondrial goes from mother both sons and daughters. In other words you get your Mitochondrial from your mother, her mother, her mother. Autosomal which you get 50-50 from both parents. Y & Mitochondrial are useful in family history as they go back in a straight line virtually unchanged. They are helpful in matching you with other family trees. Now no way do they represent all of your ancestry. If you had both done right off the bat they would exclude your paternal grandmother and maternal grandfather. Your ancestry pyramids as you go back. If you get back to your 6xgreat grandparents, your are directly descended from 510 individuals. Of those 510 you get your Y from 8 and your Mitochondrial from 8 leaving out 494 people. You might say “why bother.” If you succeed in matching yourself with other family trees you probably will discover some of th
