This is for Sherry re Nell downing Norton (1970's?) I am very curious about Nell Downing, and also about Downing's Station. Can you tell me more about them both? How do I contact Finley to see the record he published in Nat Gen Soc Quarterly, Sept 1989? Or do I have to subscribe to the Quarterly, or is there a way I can just see the article he published? We have a Nell Downing(not her maident name; I think her maiden name was Jackson) She was born in 1920's and is still living. Also, you said you saved every scrap of Downing information you could. Do you have much on the Downing family in Fayette County, KY? That of Francis Downing, born 1736, and his descendants. I particularly am looking for Francis' son, Powhatan, born 1766 in MD, and his descendants, of which my gr gr gandfather is supposed to be one. He is Morean Downing. Morean was born 1816 KY and married 1843 Lydia Ann Brunk in Davies County, MO, where I think their family was born. I need to look at a MO Soundex again; I have learned a little more about them since I last searched that Soundex. Morean and Lydia's children are: Samuel and John, born in 1840's, Ellen, born 1850, and Sanford, James, Moran, Jr, and William Austin, my gr grandfather, all born after 1850. They could have moved from Davies Co. to Stone Co.,MO, since that is where my grandfather was born. Know anything about these people? I have no way of telling who the descendants of William Austin's siblings are, since none of us have any records of any of their children. Do you know?