Montgomery County, Indiana USGenWeb Project

Introduction

Jeffery G. Scism

Jeff Scism is the assistant coordinator for Montgomery County, Indiana, Indiana Genealogy Web (INGenWeb), a state organization of the USGenWeb Project. His duties are to assemble the data submitted for website publication, manage the County genealogy mail list on Rootsweb, 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 te 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 has 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 is currently 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 County Coordinator for Churchill County Nevada. He runs several websites, one of note is the Genealogy Hall of Shame where Scams which target Genealogists are exposed. He also maintains an frequently updated database of the Vietnam era MISSING In Action, and recovered remains of our lost military and civilian in-theater casualties. He is a "full time" genealogist.

In the past three years, Jeff has assisted Karen in expanding the Montgomery County website from a 50 page (data dense) website to one that has nearly 5400 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.