{"id":1008,"date":"2020-10-27T21:33:31","date_gmt":"2020-10-27T21:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ancestortracks.com\/wp\/?page_id=1008"},"modified":"2026-01-16T12:48:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T17:48:26","slug":"our-mission","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ancestortracks.com\/wp\/about-us\/our-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"1008\" class=\"elementor elementor-1008\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-760c499 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default exad-glass-effect-no exad-sticky-section-no\" data-id=\"760c499\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-background-overlay\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-a326eeb exad-glass-effect-no exad-sticky-section-no\" data-id=\"a326eeb\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-79370f5 exad-sticky-section-no exad-glass-effect-no elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"79370f5\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h3 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Our Mission<\/h3>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-515adcb elementor-widget-divider--view-line exad-sticky-section-no exad-glass-effect-no elementor-widget elementor-widget-divider\" data-id=\"515adcb\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"divider.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-divider\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-divider-separator\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e0d3e98 exad-sticky-section-no exad-glass-effect-no elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"e0d3e98\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 500; color: #000000; text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7591 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/ancestortracks.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-step-Portal-for-PA-Land-Records-Maps-300x183.jpg\" alt=\"Courtesy Historic Pittsburgh\" width=\"300\" height=\"183\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ancestortracks.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-step-Portal-for-PA-Land-Records-Maps-300x183.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ancestortracks.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-step-Portal-for-PA-Land-Records-Maps.jpg 623w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Our goal is to help you track your early ancestors who moved through Pennsylvania through their land tracts! To do that, we offer three resources: (1) <a href=\"https:\/\/ancestortracks.com\/wp\/resources\/county-atlases\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">county atlases<\/a> in our <em>Early Landowners of Pennsylvania<\/em> series based on the Township Warrantee Maps\u00a0 drafted at the Pennsylvania State Archives containing information about the earliest landowners; (2) pdf downloads of the entire set of <a href=\"https:\/\/ancestortracks.com\/wp\/home\/land-acquisition\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">state-wide Warrant Registers, Patent Register Indexes, and Tract Name Registers<\/a> pertaining to the earliest landowners (open categories under specific + signs); and (3) free images of 19th-century maps and atlases containing names of residents to use in conjunction with county histories and censuses, most of which we took in person at the Library of Congress.\u00a0 With our resources, you can:<\/p><ul style=\"font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 500; color: #000000;\"><li style=\"font-size: 15px;\">Pin your families down to exact locations prior to the 1790 census<\/li><li style=\"font-size: 15px;\">Reveal family relationships or clues to possible relationships since relatives usually congregated near one another<\/li><li style=\"font-size: 15px;\">Trace the progression of sets of families and neighbors as they moved in groups<\/li><li style=\"font-size: 15px;\">Identify migration trails of your families as they moved west across the colony and state of Pennsylvania<\/li><li style=\"font-size: 15px;\">Locate family wills, church records, deeds and orphans court records by knowing where they lived<\/li><li style=\"font-size: 15px;\">Plan a trip to the land of your ancestors, walk where they walked and feel your roots<\/li><li style=\"font-size: 15px;\">Give flesh to your ancestors by being able to find real historical events, both exciting and mundane, in county histories where they lived<\/li><li style=\"font-size: 15px;\">Uncover the history of modern land tracts<\/li><\/ul><p style=\"font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 500; color: #000000;\">Our website is a one-stop portal for explaining and finding Pennsylvania land resources and a must for every serious researcher of the pioneers who passed through or stayed in Pennsylvania, as well as for 19-century residents.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-inner-section elementor-element elementor-element-262178f elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default exad-glass-effect-no exad-sticky-section-no\" data-id=\"262178f\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-25 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-4db30f5 exad-glass-effect-no exad-sticky-section-no\" data-id=\"4db30f5\" 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To do that, we offer three resources: (1) county atlases in our Early Landowners of Pennsylvania series based on the Township Warrantee Maps\u00a0 drafted at the Pennsylvania State Archives containing information about the earliest landowners; &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/ancestortracks.com\/wp\/about-us\/our-mission\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Our Mission<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":621,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ancestortracks.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1008"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ancestortracks.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ancestortracks.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ancestortracks.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ancestortracks.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1008"}],"version-history":[{"count":37,"href":"https:\/\/ancestortracks.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13305,"href":"https:\/\/ancestortracks.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1008\/revisions\/13305"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ancestortracks.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ancestortracks.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}