MB, YES YOUR RIGHT! I have checked every Horton listed in the index Oneida and Herkimer co. No Harry or Harold as a child there. I have gone through some of the census years page by page but nothing. Like I said first year I found him is 1870 with first wife and my gr gr grandmother. Next is the 1880 with second wife and his other children. Sounds like you have gone the same route as me. Poor Harry had to have parents just cann`t seem to find out who they were! Diane in NY