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 The library does not currently have land records for Blair, Carbon, Centre, Lackawanna, Lehigh, Monroe, Pike, Snyder, and Union counties.<br><!--{12088011991600} --><!--{12088011991601} -->
-=== Land Ownership Maps ===
+=== Land Ownership Maps  ===
-[http://ancestortracks.com/ Ancestor Tracks ]is a website "dedicated to publishing maps and land ownership information allowing genealogy researchers to more precisely pinpoint the locations where our ancestors lived." They "offer two product lines which complement each other: (1) state-wide Warrant, Patent, and Tract Name Registers which document the first transfers of land from the Penns or the state to private owners (see below); and (2) county atlases of the Pennsylvania Township Warrantee Maps on file at the Pennsylvania Archives in Harrisburg showing the exact metes-and-bounds tracts of early pioneers who purchased land from colonial or the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania authorities. ...[They] are also publishing online land ownership maps from the nineteenth century which can be used in conjunction with census records." Some of the maps are already online, others are still in books or on CD. Not all counties are part of this project, but a color-coded map at the site links to the resources that are available.
+[http://ancestortracks.com/ '''Ancestor Tracks''']is a website "dedicated to publishing maps and land ownership information allowing genealogy researchers to more precisely pinpoint the locations where our ancestors lived."&nbsp; They have posted free, downloadable 19th-century landowner maps for approximately 85% of the land mass of Pennsylvania which are exceedingly helpful when used in conjunction with census records and published county history texts.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
+They are also publishing books and CDs documenting the ''original ''owners of high-migration counties which they sell.&nbsp; These county volumes show the exact metes-and-bounds tracts of early pioneers who purchased land directly from colonial or Commonwealth of Pennsylvania authorities.&nbsp; To date, Ancestor Tracks has published volumes for Berks, Dauphin, Fayette, Greene, Lancaster, Washington, and Westmoreland Counties.&nbsp; Companion CDs contain the original Warrant Maps and sometimes also contain these maps with current road maps superimposed over them.&nbsp; In addition, they offer a CD containing all 67 Warrant Registers covering the entire state; another CD containing all of the Patent Registers for the state; a third CD containing all of the Tract Name Registers; and a fourth CD containing the New Purchase Register.&nbsp; These ledgers document the first transfers of land from the Penns or the state to private owners.&nbsp; Once the property passed into private hands, all subsequent transfers of land are recorded in the relevant county offices.
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