Sandi, the 1850 census for Indiana has an index that will save you considerable time over browsing through the images on Ancestry, one image at a time. But you do need to know the names of the heads of household. If you live near a public library with a genealogy section, it may have the census data as well as the index. Alternatively, there are places on the internet to find the 1850 index with the associated images. Jack Ott researching OTT, HOPPER, SUMMERS, UTZ, and WHITLOCK in Floyd Co.