Senior Vice President & General Manager, FamilyTreeDNA

Dave Vance

Dave Vance is a life-long genealogist with a professional career in IT services and is currently General Manager for FamilyTreeDNA. He took a National Genographic Project DNA test in 2005 and has been a genetic genealogy enthusiast ever since to the mild consternation of his family and friends. He has been the editor of the Journal of Genetic Genealogy, is a surname Group Project Administrator and haplogroup Group Project Co-Administrator, has written tools, books and articles on genetic genealogy, and finds occasions to speak publicly about various genetic genealogy topics even when he wasn’t invited to do so beforehand.

Sessions


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This session language is Inggeris
Video duration is 59:55
Session was published in 2026

The Future of AI in Genealogy - 2026

David Ouimette, Steve Little, Diana Elder, Mark Thompson, Dave Vance

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This session language is Inggeris
Video duration is 47:35
Session was published in 2026

RootsTech Innovation and Tech Forum 2026

Alon Eherenfeld, Marisa J. W. Humphrey, Brian Shirts, John Crockett, Laryn Brown, Richard K. Miller, Jeffrey C. Humphrey, Dave Vance

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This session language is Inggeris
Video duration is 45:35
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This session language is Inggeris
Video duration is 05:52
Session was published in 2026

FamilyTreeDNA | General Session 3 | 2026

Dave Vance

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This session language is Inggeris
Video duration is 59:18
Session was published in 2025

Integrating Autosomal, Y-DNA, and mtDNA Results Together

Dave Vance

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This session language is Inggeris
Video duration is 09:54
Session was published in 2025

DNA Testing Simplified: Tools and Tips for Genealogy Success

Dave Vance