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From: Jeffery Scism <>
Subject: Re: [USGenWeb-SW] Re: Introduction
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 22:22:10 -0800
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I am Jeffery Scism, I manage 2 USGenWeb sites (one on my own, Churchill
County, Nevada) and do the web programming for Montgomery County, Indiana.

I also do a few "One Name Studies" of Peffley, Scism, and some others
to al lesser degree.

I am Flockmaster and founder of the International Blacksheep Society of
Genealogists.

I have thirty-five years of Genealogy under my belt, beginning in a
serious fashion in 1972, when I was duped by (Actually my mother was
duped.) Halberts of Bath Ohio... and started writing all the Scisms on
the list they charged us for.


In 1982 I was learning DOS based programming in the military, and
started creating a genealogy database manipulation program.
Unfortunately it remained in the Computer in Korea when I was
reassigned, and was never heard from again.

In 1987 I had a word Processor, and it came with Family Treemaker
version 1.0. I used it for a couple of months when I realized I was
limited to storing ONLY on 3.5 floppies and they were not available in
my area. The project died when I ran out of floppy space.

My older TI-99/4A computer didn't have the capacity to do even that
much. However I did print out what I was working on, in hopes that it
would get better in the future.

Thanks to Mr. Gore, the Internet was created and I jumped right in.
When Rootsweb started from the old Rand Group, and the Indiana servers
went down, I jumped into the Rootsweb mail list system and found it
more comfortable than the Bulletin Boards and User groups.

The Internet has come a long way since the Keypunching I was doing in
1969, and the Cobol and Fortran I was trying to learn. I won't say I
miss the IBM cards, but the straight forward data processing seemed
miraculous back then.

I always thought that Computers would be a home appliance, and useful
for doing genealogy, and here it is 35 years later and I still consider
myself a compter novice fumblimng my way around these machines, and
still do not know HOW it works in the binary world... But it does in
spite of my lack of expertise.




--

Jeffery G. Scism, IBSSG

~~

http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~scismfam/
http://blacksheep.rootsweb.com/
http://www.rootsweb.com/~nvchurch/
http://www.rootsweb.com/~inmontgo/

All email and attachments are scanned in AND out
by a daily-updated Norton Anti-virus, a firewall is
in place and ad blocking/malware removal tools are
installed, updated and running.
(What have you done to protect yourself and others?)


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