This online database is a collection of unique material for both genealogical and historical researchers, with coverage dating back to the late 1700s. Researchers can find their ancestors, trace their paths across America, and learn what life was like in the areas where they settled.

With Heritage Quest you can

• Search the Census to find ancestors in the complete set of U.S. Federal Census images from 1790-1930, including name indexes for many years.
• Search Books to find information on people and places described in over 22,000 family and local histories.
• Search PERSI to find information about people and places from the index of over 2.1 million genealogy and local history articles.
• Search selected Revolutionary War records from the Revolutionary War Era Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application Files.
• Search Freedman's Bank (1865-1874) for individuals. The bank was founded to serve African Americans.
• Search U.S. Serial Set, specifically the Memorials, Petitions and Private Relief Actions of the U.S. Congress in the LexisNexis U.S. Serial Set.

Ask for the prefix code at the library and enter it with your library barcode number on the login page.

Click here to reach the login page.

The Uniontown Public Library is proud to bring the POWER Library to our patrons. The POWER Library is Pennsylvania's Online World of Electronic Resources. Power Library has more than forty diverse databases for use by adults and children.

You can access the POWER Library by clicking the logo above and entering the code you can get at the library + your library card number. (Do not use quotes or leave spaces.)

Just a few of the databases offered in the Power Library program are:

• Teacher Reference Center
• Regional Business News
• Oxford Music Resources
• NoveList
• History Reference Center
• and the complete Funk & Wagnall's New World Encyclopedia

Click here for a list of the POWERFUL databases we are offering to you as part of your membership at the Uniontown Public Library!

In 1996, Dolly Parton launched an exciting new effort to benefit the children of her home county in east Tennessee. Dolly wanted to foster a love of reading among her county’s preschool children and their families. She wanted children to be excited about books and to feel the magic that books can create. Moreover, she could insure that every child would have books, regardless of their family’s income.

So she decided to mail a brand new, age appropriate book each month to every child under 5 in Sevier County. With the arrival of every child’s first book, the classic The Little Engine That Could ™, every child could now experience the joy of finding their very own book in their mail box. These moments continue each month until the child turns 5—and in their very last month in the program they receive Look Out Kindergarten Here I Come.

Needless to say the experience has been a smashing success. So much so that many other communities clamored to provide the Imagination Library to their children. Dolly thought long and hard about it and decided her Foundation should develop a way for other communities to participate. The Foundation asked a blue ribbon panel of experts to select just the right books and secured Penguin Group USA to be the exclusive publisher for the Imagination Library. Moreover a database was built to keep track of the information.

Consequently, in March of 2000 she stood at the podium of The National Press Club in Washington, D.C. and revealed the plan for other communities to provide the Imagination Library to their children. And as only Dolly can say it, she wanted to “put her money where her mouth is – and with such a big mouth that’s a pretty large sum of money” and provide the books herself to the children of Branson, Missouri and Myrtle Beach, South Carolina – communities where her businesses now operate. If other leaders in their communities were willing to do the same, well something big might just happen.

You know what? It did!!

Here’s how it works:

A community must make the program accessible to all preschool children in their area. The community pays for the books and mailing, promotes the program, registers the children, and enters the information into the database.

From there The Dollywood Foundation takes over and manages the system to deliver the books to the home. You can find out more of the operational details on other pages in this website – so what are waiting for! Hundreds of communities are providing books to hundreds of thousands of children.

Preschool children living in the Uniontown and Laurel Highlands School Districts are eligible for our local Imagination Library Program. Just click the logo to reach our Imagination Library pages.

You can pick up an Imagination Library form at the Uniontown Public Library. It's so easy to introduce your preschooler to the world of reading, and it's free.

Uniontown Public Library members can now download best selling audio books, music and videos 24/7 to a PC and PDA at home, in the office or from anywhere in the world. Now our library never closes! All you need is a valid Uniontown Public Library card.

Clicking on this logo will link you to the Monessen District Center Library and a wonderful service that we're sure you will enjoy.

What's available?

• An eBook is the digital, onscreen version of a published physical book. The format of the title is text-based, and some eBooks are interactive, with sound and hyperlinks. eBooks from OverDrive can be transferred to a variety of portable devices, such as PDAs, Pocket PCs, and Smartphones (depending on publisher permissions and device specifications).
• An OverDrive Audiobook is the digital version of a book on tape or book on CD. Patrons may listen to a spoken word audiobooks on their computers or transfer to a variety of portable devices, including the iPod (coming soon). Many audiobooks can also be burned to CD. OverDrive Audiobooks are specifically engineered to provide the best audiobook listening experience.
• OverDrive Download Video is video that has been optimized for download and can be watched on a computer or transferred to a compatible mobile device.
• OverDrive Music titles usually consist of an entire album, and many music titles include a supplementary PDF with liner notes or the libretto.

The first time that you check out materials, you will be provided with instructions to download the software that you need. For your convenience, the Library Center has compiled a list of compatible devices.

It's easy:

Step 1: Download and install the free Media Console software.


Step 2: Browse and check out titles.


Step 3: Download and transfer titles to supported devices.

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Ask Here PA is designed to provide fast answers to your questions, using information found on the Internet and in proprietary databases funded by libraries. In most cases, Ask Here PA Librarians will provide an answer online in 15 minutes or less!

If your question involves lengthy research, we'll get you started and/or provide a referral for you or your question and/or offer to do additional research and follow-up with you via e-mail.

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