Thank you so much, Bill!! This helps me tremendously!! I'm familiar with the area, having lived a short time in Hamtramck in the late '60s. Just from the information you gave me, without even checking the map yet, I'm sure I know which relative this poster belonged to. I do know about George Sadowski's Wikipedia page. I spent considerable time there last night, along with the page for the current 1st Congressional District. Thank you again, so very much for your help. I appreciate it more than you know. Elaine O. in the Beautiful Missouri Ozarks On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 7:04 PM, Bill Carney <bill@billcarney.com> wrote: > Hello Elaine. I work in the Michigan Legislature, and was actually > involved with the district reapportionment after the 2000 and 2010 > Censuses, so this query caught my eye. > > Congressional districts are reapportioned (drawn) after this censuses. > Therefore, the Congressional district you refer to were as they were from > 1932-1940. I don't have a detailed map from that timeframe, but I did > manage to find a map someone drew from other maps at > http://imageshack.us/f/167/19321940stateandwaynemaql6.png/ If you zoom > and and look closely, CD1 is the city of Hamtramck and the surrounding area > of Detroit, from 8 Mile south to the river. > > I wish I had a better map for you, but at least now we know it's in the > north east part of the city. > > Just for fun I did a quick search on Google Earth for 1942 Grant, Detroit. > The exact address doesn't appear to exist, but it was located between > Joseph Campau and Mitchell Streets, a block and half south of the Davison > Freeway. This area falls into the area in the description above. > 42°24'36.94"N, 83° 4'20.61"W is what Google Earth says was the address. > It's one of those streets that was only one block long. > > You probably already know this, but George G. Sadowski has his own > Wikipedia page: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_G._Sadowski > > I hope this helps. It at least gave me a few minutes to "geek out" with > the maps and such. :) > > > On Jul 24, 2013, at 7:23 PM, Elaine Mahl O'Neill < > elaineoneill1948@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I recently came into possession of a 1937 poster of FDR that was sent to > a > > family member who had apparently helped with or contributed to his > campaign > > in 1936. It was sent by George G. Sadowski (D. Michigan's 1st > Congressional > > District). I'm not sure which family member this is because it's > addressed > > by his first initial and last name. There are a few possibilities. I > tried > > looking up the address to see where in the city it was located. The > address > > no longer exists.(1942 Grant) So I tried to look up the area that made up > > the 1st Congressional district in that era. No luck. All I get is the > > current district which is now the Upper Peninsula and part of the > Northern > > part of the Lower Peninsula. From what I was able to find, the districts > > were changed in 1992. > > Is there anywhere I can find information or a map showing where this > > district was prior to the 1992 redistricting? If I can determine where in > > the city this district was, I can possibly determine which relative this > > was sent to. Maybe I'm going about this the wrong way. I don't know. I > > just want to know where 1942 Grant was in 1937. Thank you for any > > suggestions. > > > > > > Elaine O. > > in the > > Beautiful Missouri Ozarks > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > MIWAYNE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > MIWAYNE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >