BIOGRAPHY
Introduction
Jeffery G. Scism
Jeff Scism
Jeff Scism is the assistant coordinator for Fountain County,
Indiana, Indiana Genealogy Web (INGenWeb), a state organization
of the USGenWeb Project. His duties are to assemble the data
submitted for website publication, and assist Karen Zach, the County
Coordinator in things she needs done regarding the county
project.
Jeff is the father of three children and with his wife
Bridget, lives in San Bernardino, California. He is a disabled
Veteran of the Vietnam era, and has 16 years in the USAF, where
his duties included being a survival instructor, maintaining
rescue and survival equipment, and being involved in several
"special" projects, one such was building full pressure "space"
suits, and working on the USAF Strategic Surviellance program
(U2R, TR1A, and SR-71) as a Physiological Support Technician, he
was also a frequent "traveller" in his duties and has seen much
of the world.
Since his discharge from the USAF, Jeff had been working in
the security field, and has managed a mobilehome Community, he is
currently "Mr. Mom" to his children, who are in "special"
education programs. He was recently the president of a Non-Profit
Corporation, his Homeowners Association in California. He has
thirty years of Genealogy under his belt, and is the founder of
the International Blacksheep Society of Genealogists, is curator
for the Peffley Family Association, and a recently unseated member of the
USGenWeb Project Advisory Board. He runs several websites. He is a "full
time" genealogist.
Since 2000, Jeff has assisted Karen in expanding
the Montgomery County, Indiana website from a 50 page (data dense) website
to one that has nearly 14,000 data pages. The extensive volunteer
transcription project and the helpers who drive it, have made
this site one of the better sites in the state, and "area"
content doesn't always stop within the borders of the county.
This county is a key county for the area in which it is
situated, being the regional location of the Government Land
Office in the 1820s, it became the center of business and
commerce for the region.
