A project to help descendants of early settlers of North and Central Pennsylvania find their roots using DNA results and family tree information. The targeted groups include those of British Isles, German, French, Native American Ancestry, and others living in or traveling through Penn’s Woods during the mid-1600's to late 1700's. This project is intended to help members make tree connections using DNA results and family tree information. Prospective members should have DNA test results and enough family tree information to trace their ancestry to the targeted groups/area. Public access GEDCOM uploads to FTDNA preferred. Please include enough information in your join request to determine your qualification as a descendant of people in colonial or pre-colonial Pennsylvania. This is a Dual (Y-DNA & mtDNA) Geographical Project. Autosomal DNA results welcome. To further genealogical connections between descendants of PA Pioneers and the early people of the North and Central Pennsylvania using DNA test results and family tree information. To facilitate genealogical tree connections by allowing project members to compare and share DNA test results and family tree information. Target area includes present day North and Central Pennsylvania prior to and after formation of the Commonwealth. This area subsequently became the bulk of the Pennsylvania’s Claim with a portion of Virginia's Claim and Connecticut's Claim lying within it (see Pennsylvania Genealogical Map of the Counties, prepared 1933 by PA Land Office). After organization of the Commonwealth this area became the early counties of: Cumberland, Berks, Northampton, Bedford, Westmoreland, Lancaster, Northumberland, Luzerne, Lycoming, and Allegheny. Today the area includes any northern or centrally located county formed from a portion of the early counties previously listed e.g. Centre, Mifflin, Dauphin, Tioga, Juniata, Venango, Wyoming, Lawrence, Columbia, Warren, Sullivan, Erie, etc.