There are 94 Downing family members listed in Starr's Cherokee genealogy of the old Cherokee Indian families. His book is indexed, as well as the 1835 Cherokee census, on line at a rare book site at http://members.aol.com/rarebk Once there, go to BOOKLISTS, and scroll down to the Cherokee genealogy books, and the tutorial. It is all self-explanatory. Note, there is no WWW in the address. The site also contains a Cherokee genealogy "how-to" tutorial you can read that explains how to do Cherokee genealogy research, the best explanation I've seen to date. Thanks, Jim ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]