The following excerpt is from the March 28, 2014 ediiton of sacbee.com:
Doris C. Pike, a homemaker who embarked on a diligent search for her family history and helped establish the first public genealogy library in Sacramento County, died March 24 of colon cancer complications, her family said. She was 95.
Long before personal computers and online databases, Mrs. Pike began the laborious task of researching her genealogy. The idea came to her while caring for her ill husband in 1969.
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Mrs. Pike belonged to the Sacramento Genealogical Society – Root Cellar and the Genealogical Association of Sacramento. In 1982, the groups persuaded the Sacramento Public Library Commission to allocate a room at the Carmichael branch for a genealogy reference library. Volunteers painted the room, purchased and set up shelves and stocked the collection with reference books.
Mrs. Pike spent almost 25 years as a library volunteer, buying research materials and repairing and rebinding books…
