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Paula Smith Vanderslice -- Native Washingtonian, at least 4-generations

Dedicated Volunteer:
The National Park Service
The U.S. Capitol Visitors' Center
Museum of the Bible

​Paid/Seasonal:
Substitute Teacher


Paula completed AOI's comprehensive questionnaire and illustrated it with some family-related graphics.  She also shared a comprehensive accounting of her ancestors. Members who take the time to address the myriad questions presented in the questionnaire, deserve their own page under Members' Stories and we hope that AOI members and their families will take advantage of "The District's Living Archive" to document their stories here for posterity. 
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Paula has also included some comprehensive information on her life and her ancestors.

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Below are descriptions of the photos.

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Paula also thought the below Manumission by Frederick Cudlipp is revealing...
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... as well as this census document from 1820 for her 4th great-grandmother, Louisa (Cleverly) Cudlipp, who came from England to St. Mary's, Maryland and then to live in D.C. with her six children.
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