This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Heidel Classification: Immigration Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/ZVC.2ACE/1096.1136.1197.1.1.2 Message Board Post: If is believed that Heidels in Breese, IL came West by way of Buffalo, NY. This believed by myself and one (a Heidel) who descended from connected Heidels who settled in the area of Buffalo. An early passenger ship list record can be found from the 1850s for the Heidels in Breese. Maybe a descendent of Heidels once in Breese know more details, but these Heidels' German origins having been Mecklenberg were quite allusive to discovery for as easy as general genealogical information can be found on the Internet for ones once in Clinton County.