I appreciate all the input on the name Severin ZIMMERMAN. NOW then, SEVERIN SEIDEL in Hartford, Wisconsin. My brick wall is a XAVERIUS SEIDEL, NYC, 1860s. When does your SEVERIN SEIDEL show up in Wisconsin? Just in case, you all know how it goes :-) Maybe SEVERIN and XAVERIUS are Gernam/ Swedish equivalents Donna Seidel, ZIMMERMAN also ZIMMERMANs that seem to have moved from Missouri (flood) to DeKalb County, Ind. Turn of the century