{"id":38460,"date":"2016-08-08T13:08:45","date_gmt":"2016-08-08T20:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/?p=38460"},"modified":"2016-08-08T13:08:45","modified_gmt":"2016-08-08T20:08:45","slug":"little-rock-woman-finds-her-jewish-roots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/?p=38460","title":{"rendered":"Little Rock Woman Finds Her Jewish Roots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The following teaser is from a good article posted August 8, 2016 at the timesofisrael website.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/in-little-rock-a-woman-finds-her-true-faith-and-then-jewish-family\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Woman-Finds-Jewish-Roots_300pw.jpg\" alt=\"Woman-Finds-Jewish-Roots_300pw\" width=\"300\" height=\"156\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-38461\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Discovering a Jewish past of which she was wholly unaware, Danette Devlin of Little Rock, Arkansas, has also found family.<\/p>\n<p>Devlin was raised without any religious affiliation. As an adult she attended Catholic and Episcopalian churches seeking a spiritual home.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere were lots of nice people, they were very welcoming, but it just wasn\u2019t right. It wasn\u2019t me,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>In 2013, Devlin went online in an effort to find her father, Edward Couch, with whom she\u2019d been out of touch for more than three decades. Devlin found an obituary for Couch\u2019s brother, Robert, that mentioned her late paternal grandmother, Lillian Schiff.<\/p>\n<p>Devlin obtained Schiff\u2019s application for a Social Security number listing the names of Schiff\u2019s father and mother, Herman and Cyril. Searching cemetery websites, Devlin last year acquired photographs of her great-grandparents\u2019 graves near Chicago. The tombstones had Hebrew lettering, confirming the couple\u2019s Jewishness and revealing Herman as a Kohen, a member of the priestly class.<\/p>\n<p>Discovering her Jewish ancestry has powerfully affected Devlin, 56.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I am Jewish, and I finally felt whole\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI jumped up and down with joy!\u201d she said by telephone from her home. \u201cI am Jewish, and I finally felt whole.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/in-little-rock-a-woman-finds-her-true-faith-and-then-jewish-family\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read the full article.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following teaser is from a good article posted August 8, 2016 at the timesofisrael website. Discovering a Jewish past of which she was wholly unaware, Danette Devlin of Little Rock, Arkansas, has also found family. Devlin was raised without <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/?p=38460\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Little Rock Woman Finds Her Jewish Roots<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jewish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38460"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38462,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38460\/revisions\/38462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}