Looking for parents of Frances Steiner 1808 Germany / Ohio

Question

I know she immigrated with her mother and brother, but her mother died at sea and she was separated from her brother.  I know she married Benjamin Hershey and lived in Ohio but I believe they married in PA.  Benjamin I believe was Mennonite and Fanny could be too.  I also can’t trace Benjamin’s parents.  I believe he moved from PA to Ohio with his brothers and father but also can’t find a record of this.

Answer 1

Hello, it will be rather a lucky find, with this amount of information available. In Germany the resources a decentralized.

I checked only for Rhineland-Palatine which is the Apertus database, having some listings on migrants. The only possible family in the time frame is this record: https://apertus.rlp.de/index.php?PLINK=1&ID=309238b0-e32f-47c3-a6d5-1e770171996f  In the records no names of the children are given. Also no digital availability of the original source. It is an intend of migration of a Family Steiner with 6 children, in 1819 via Mainz to Amsterdam to Amerika. Records for that time in Amsterdam could be checked, if the family enter a ship there. May be names of children is given there. Please be aware, not all migrants are in the database. There are more migrants in other databases of other states of Germany. Steiner is not a seldom name and used all over Germany. 

Best luck with your search.