This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Heidel, Seidel Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/mEC.2ACE/454.1.2 Message Board Post: Do you know where your Seidels located in Minnesota? My gr-grandparent Heidels last lived in Princeton (where they can be found in the 1870 US Census). My grandfather's oldest brother was born in 1871 in Minnesota. My gr-grandparents can be found to have have first lived in Nicollet County near Mankato during the early 1870s.