In a message dated 2/25/2004 4:31:01 PM Pacific Standard Time, [email protected] writes: > I would just like to personally thank Lynda Roberts for taking on the > Downing > DNA Project. > This could mean major breakthroughs for some of us and I, for one, look > forward to working with those of you who share my Leander's ancestry. Won't > it be > great to pool resources from this new perspective?!? > > Please allow me to add my "dittos"! In addition.......let us not forget our Downing men who have agreed to "contribute their genes" for our benefit. < grin> Thank you all for your contribution to this project. If I can find and convince some other male Downings to help, I will send along his info. My sister and I met an elderly Downing man when we went to Iowa last year, but he is not online and doesn't really know us very well. His great grandfather is Josiah Downing, born 1815 in Ohio, who is my 3rd-great grandfather. Regards, Wee Las Vegas, NV