I cannot find within the child theme where I can edit the site footer. I see nothing in the child theme that creates the information at the bottom of all my pages.
The reason you don’t see it in the child theme is because it’s created by the Genesis Framework itself, not the child theme. The child theme just adds the design, the Genesis Framework adds all of the other functionality. You can take a look here at the StudioPress tutorials on how to remove or edit the footer area – http://my.studiopress.com/snippets/footer/