Go to any search engine like Alta Vista or others and type in Galicia and you will be inundated with information. It was an area in the south of Poland and was part of the Austria- Hungary Empire. It was also the home of many Rusyns or Lemkos as they were called in that area. You wrote: > >Al Shurgalla wrote: >> My grandfather told me before he died that his family came from >> Galicia. So far I have been unable to trace this name. I suspect >> the spelling was Americanized and that it was originally something >> like perhaps Czabala. >Hi Al, >I have seen the name Csabala in the Greek Catholic church records for >Palota (just east of Medzilaborce and very near to the border, i.e. >former Galicia). The LDS film is 1794332. Another >variation is the Sztebila family which is referenced to Nagov >(Hu. Nyago)and is just south of Medzilaborce. >Tom Burcak