Hi Debbie -- I have the ancestry.com CD of the 1850 census index. Name: Foster, Julius Year: 1850 County: ONEIDA CO. State: NY Page: 189 Location: VERONA Roll 564, Book 1, p. 189b: FOSTER, Julius, 42, farmer, $3550, b. NY ", Sarah, 30, b. NY ", Edgar, 14, b. NY, at school ", Myron, 9, b. NY, at school ", George, 8, b. NY, at school ", Martha, 6, b. NY, at school No SHEAR families living in Verona, that would be too easy ... but there are these in Oneida Co: Name: Shear, Abram Year: 1850 County: ONEIDA CO. State: NY Page: 210 Location: PARIS Name: Shear, Allen Year: 1850 County: ONEIDA CO. State: NY Page: 129 Location: AVA Name: Shear, Isaac Year: 1850 County: ONEIDA CO. State: NY Page: 265 Location: LEE Name: Shear, John Year: 1850 County: ONEIDA CO. State: NY Page: 256 Location: LEE Name: Shear, Wallace Year: 1850 County: ONEIDA CO. State: NY Page: 147 Location: FLOYD Trying for typos, this man did live in Verona: Name: Shean, Charles Year: 1850 County: ONEIDA CO. State: NY Page: 155 Location: VERONA page 155b: SHEAN, Charles, 30, laborer, b. NY ", Sarah M., 21, b. NY ", Elery F., 3, M, b. NY ", Sarah J., 6/12, b. NY It's tricky, because unless you get grandma or grandpa living with the Fosters at a later date, there's no real way in the censuses to find out what Sarah's father's name was. No hints in the Verona cemetery, I suppose? No sign of Julius in 1880. No Julius with any surname at all living in Verona then: odd. Mary Kifissia, Greece >I don't have the 1830-50 indexed.