This would be interesting but I'd make sure the company is reputable before going all in.
You never know what you'll find

I've done some of this. Our family has one of those "Cherokee Ancestor" stories, so we tried to prove it with a male ancestor and with a female one (much harder because surnames change every generation. We proved that we have no Native American DNA at all, which was a disappointment, but still it's best knowing the truth. because some of my ancestors had Indian names, we think maybe they were adopted into the tribe and lived in the area.

I also did the National geographic study. It is generic. They can tell you more or less where your deep ancestors came from, which in my case is Europe, which is, well, obvious. The charts they send along are very nice and if you're intersted in DNA, anthropology, and the such, you'll learn a lot from them.

As far as being related to someone famous, of course you are. Just do the math. With four generations per century you have 2^40 power in 1,000 years, which is over a trillion. Every time I see someone on these boards say, "I'm related to Charlamagne" I snicker, because of course they are. Me and you, too. If you've ever done any genealogy, once you get back 100-200 years you will wind up running into an ancestor that has been traced, and you just piggy back on that. I found a book where my great great grandmother was listed, a Mary Montague. That took me back to Jamestown in 1620, then to England back to 1066.

But the point is that this is selective genealogy. Everyone is related to Caesar and Alexander the Great. It is more or less impossible for you not to be. It's just that some people can trace it and some cannot. In summary, this can be a lot of fun. If you think DNA is going to provide you with some dramatic revelations, well, probably not. Slogging through census data is a lot harder, but probably more accurate for your particular family. The DNA stuff can show you general trends.

I think it's just a scam to get hold of your dna.
I wouldn't do it.

I wish I had the money to trace my DNA, I know I would find some surprises.

I can say for sure that I have East Indian in my family. My mother is from Guyana which is about 40% East Indian, and 40% Black African, with mixtures of Amerindians, Chinese and other ethnicity. Plus some of the first settlers of Guyana were the Amerindians so I know there had to be some mixing in her ancestry. I might even have some dutch in my line, who knows lmao.

My father side, I don't know.

I didn't use this company but I have done a very similar test. Maternally, I belong to a subclabe of the maternal haplogroup that produced Luke The Evangelist, Marie Antoinette, and Napoleon.

I too share the concern about handing over my DNA and it is a topic that can't be totally disregarded when talking about this subject .