Senior Vice President & General Manager, FamilyTreeDNA
Dave VanceDave 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
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






