Registration has opened for RootsTech 2027, the genealogy conference that organizers call the world's largest, set to take over Salt Lake City's Salt Palace Convention Center and the internet simultaneously from March 4-6, 2027. Actress Jane Seymour and DNA sleuth CeCe Moore are on the keynote roster, giving next year's event a split personality between Hollywood storytelling and forensic science.
A Local Conference That Went Global
The event is hosted by FamilySearch International, the nonprofit genealogy arm of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, as reported by ABC4 Utah. What began in 2011 with roughly 3,000 attendees has since grown into a global phenomenon: the 2025 conference drew millions of participants from more than 200 countries and territories, according to the Church Newsroom. RootsTech 2027 carries the theme “Celebrate,” with Jonathan Wing saying that family history is a living celebration of the past, present, and future, per ABC4's report.
Registration for in-person attendance is now open with early bird pricing available at rootstech.org, while virtual participation remains free, the outlet's report notes. Attendees, whether logging in from home or walking the Salt Palace's exhibit floors, can expect hundreds of classes and interactive experiences aimed at both beginners and longtime family history enthusiasts, along with an expo hall that spans both in-person and virtual formats.
Jane Seymour and CeCe Moore Headline the Lineup
Seymour, described in the ABC4 report as an award-winning actress, author, and philanthropist best known for her role in the 1973 James Bond film “Live and Let Die,” brings her own genealogy credentials to the stage. She has also explored her family history and Holocaust discoveries, according to footage shared on YouTube.
Moore, meanwhile, arrives with a reputation built on solving cases that once seemed unsolvable. The station's report describes her as an internationally recognized DNA investigative expert, educator, and pioneer in genetic genealogy. She serves as Chief Genetic Genealogist at Parabon NanoLabs, whose work has included a cold case involving DNA, according to Northern Virginia Magazine. That same DNA-matching approach has surfaced in a case near Nyack in Placer County, California, including a decades-old Putt Lake identification that relied on DNA testing and investigative genetic genealogy techniques.
Inside the Salt Palace and Beyond
The Salt Palace Convention Center, where RootsTech 2027 will be held, offers 515,000 square feet of contiguous exhibit hall space and 164,000 square feet of meeting space, according to Visit Salt Lake. Built in 1996, the venue previously served as the Main Media Center during the 2002 Winter Olympic Games, per Wikipedia's entry on the Salt Palace.
RootsTech offered in-person and virtual programming at its 2026 event, according to FamilySearch. That format lets the event offer opportunities to connect with relatives and friends around the world regardless of whether attendees can make the trip to Utah, and it includes expert-led sessions on innovations in genealogy and family discovery, per ABC4's coverage.
Technology Reshaping the Search for Ancestors
During RootsTech, an interactive feature called Relatives at RootsTech compares FamilySearch family trees to help users discover family connections.
