To help make genealogical connections between descendants of PA Pioneers and 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 all or a portion of the early counties listed e.g. Centre, Mifflin, Dauphin, Tioga, Juniata, Venango, Wyoming, Lawrence, Columbia, Warren, Sullivan, Erie, etc.